Save me BIG YAHU – a Tiktok trend to be noticed |
Back in mid-February, while the security tensions between Washington and Tehran were still simmering, American kids started flooding TikTok with videos pleading to an all-powerful entity. They call him BIG YAHU; we know him as Bibi. One of them filmed himself sobbing in front of a snowbank in his backyard. “Benjamin, please,” he wailed, “Netanyahu, I know you can hear me. Save me. There’s too much snow.” This video is part of the “Save me Netanyahu” trend. Under this hashtag, teens beg the Israeli Prime Minister to bail them out of homework or bring them a gallon of gas in the middle of nowhere, Nebraska. What’s the deal?
It started in Tehran. Netanyahu’s speeches addressed directly to the Iranian people—”We stand with you,” “Soon you will be free”—were seen by local youth as detached, pretentious posturing. In response, they began posting nonsense videos, screaming his name as an ironic jab at his offered “help”: “Bibi, you said you’d help, so come fix my........