At TikTok you are constantly stumbling across the name Theophilus Junior Bestelmeyer. The musician from Hamburg quickly became a star on social networks.
You can’t choose your name – hardly anyone knows that better than Theophilus Junior Bestelmeyer. The Hamburger has become an internet phenomenon in a short time. Especially on the video app TikTok you are constantly stumbling over his unusual name.
Bestelmeyer had raised the subject himself on TikTok by posting a video of what it is like to wear such a name as a black man. People would think he looked like a nobleman from a previous century – and then wonder about the color of his skin. But even for a white man his age, this seemingly ancient name would be anything but normal.
Theophilus Junior Bestelmeyer becomes an internet meme
“Theophilus Junior Bestelmeyer” is now something of an inside joke on TikTok and Instagram. He appears again and again, sometimes in the most absurd places. It could even happen that a user has to have her name tattooed. The American had made a deal with her boss: She gets $ 3,500 if she gets a tattoo that users can vote on on the Internet. “Theophilus Junior Bestelmeyer” currently has good chances. Even the “Tagesschau” account on TikTok has already picked up on the trend, in a video Bestelmeyer posed with national soccer player Antonio Rüdiger.
The real Theophilus, meanwhile, doesn’t really know what to think of his sudden fame. The number of his followers has skyrocketed to almost 700,000. The man is actually a musician under the name Theo Junior, a few years ago he took part in the casting show “The Voice Kids”. “It was the biggest mistake to have said my name. Now all of Germany annoys me,” said Bestelmeyer in a TikTok video. “I just get fame because of my name. I make music, nobody knows my music, but you know my name, or what?”
Theo Junior promises a career leap
However, Bestelmeyer is now trying to use this celebrity for his career. In a more recent video, he calls on TikTok users to choose his name as the youth word of the year. And of course he uses the attention to promote his music: He has just released a new song. The title is of course: “Man, I don’t have to prove myself, oh-oh, yes, yes / I don’t look back, name went viral, yes, ey (-ral, yes)”.
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