
On April 4th, 2019, the video was reuploaded to YouTube where it gained over 28,100 views within four months (shown below). Before April 4th, an unknown user posted a Not Funny, Didn't Laugh video featuring a still image from the Vine. In Summer 2019, memes based on the Vine regained popularity on Twitter, iFunny and Instagram. On October 3rd, 2020, WavyWebSurf posted a video deep-diving into the hoax, gaining over 3.7 million views in a year (shown below). It is proven by YouTuber WavyWebSurf that this is the 21 kid because this video was originally uploaded on DREHUPEMSU's Vine page A complimentary YouTube video was released by the user Franklin Clinton and received over 650,000 views as of April 2016. Posts on several message boards, including IGN, indicated that some people fell for the hoax. “I tired of everyone lafing(laughing) at me, I running away forever now, if yu(you) want to find me the only clue I leaving is 21” Authorities say the child left a goodbye note in his bedroom that read: The child, whose real name is Habeeb Cisse, ran away from his home Saturday night and is currently being searched for throughout the whole Baltimore area. The article noted that the child had left a goodbye note. On October 13th, the parody website Huzlers released a hoax article detailing how the child had run away. The child in the video, whose identity remains unknown, has often been referred to as "The 21 Kid." Runaway Hoax It has since been deleted, but a re-upload by Simply Boggsy has received over 390,000 views as of April 2016. The song reached 14.6 million views and 108,000 likes by December 2014.

Later, on August 29th, YouTube user SwiftStar352 uploaded a song featuring audio from the Vine (seen below) remixed with "Hot Nigga" by rap star Bobby Shmurda, which was one of the nation's top songs at the time. By December 14, 2014, Morelos' upload had received over 5.7 million views and 37,000 likes, and Shadow's upload had received 3.7 million views and 28,000 likes.

The first known remix of the Vine was posted by user BRUH, where it received over 7.14 million loops, 185,000 likes, and 145,000 revines another remix was posted a few days later.Īlthough the original Vine was deleted, the video was re-uploaded to YouTube on July 7th, 2014, by Alondra Morelos, and then again on July 9th by YouTuber Shadow Subscribe (seen below). After the boy replies that he isn't, then the man asks him, "What's 9+10?" to which the boy answers "21." The man then reaffirms his statement.

In the Vine, a man talks to a boy and claims that he is stupid. Within eight years, the post received more than 30 million loops, 707,000 likes and 605,000 revines (mirror below). On June 22nd, 2013, Vine user published the original video.
