Japanese Pineapple Song Takes Over Twitter

This Japanese song about pineapples, apples, and pens is inspiring tons of videos on Twitter

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00:00 Kosaka Dimao is a Japanese comedian known for his strange characters. His

00:03 character Pico Taro made this video back in August.

00:09 It's just a guy and animal prince dancing to a song about apples,

00:17 pineapples, and pens. Unfortunately, no one here at What's Trending speaks

00:21 Japanese, but to the best of our knowledge, we believe that the song isn't

00:25 about anything except awesome beats. It seems like the Japanese version of

00:30 peanut butter jelly time. And the few comments that aren't in English seem

00:35 just as confused as we are. Like Brian Rees who says, "What in the actual f*ck?" And the

00:41 song has inspired the hashtag PPAP, which stands for pen pineapple apple pen. And

00:47 for whatever reason, it's become a huge trend in Japan this week. Now they just

00:51 got to bring this to Musical.ly. Oh we should be the first. And teenagers are

01:02 taking to Twitter making hundreds of videos dancing to this song. And there

01:17 are tons of remixes, mashups, and parodies. More trends like these just go to

01:27 whatstrending.com