Mandem Style Drill Remix Turns Sasuke Edit Into TikTok Anthem

Mandem Style is the unlikely TikTok anthem of the autumn: a drill remix of Gangnam Style that found new life through an anime edit. According to meme trackers, the song was uploaded by musician Luke Day in May 2024 and sat quietly for more than a year, before a Sasuke Uchiha edit on September 26, 2026 turned its hook into a feed-wide earworm.

The edit that started it all

Creator Youthflaw cut footage of Sasuke shrugging his shoulders to the beat, and that edit pulled more than 2.3 million views in its first week, according to reports. A second Sasuke edit from creator Ackerknowledge followed on September 29 and drew more than 650,000 views in six days, cementing the character as the meme’s default face. The shrug, timed exactly to the hook, became the template everyone else copied.

From anime to everyday jokes

The trend then branched into accuracy reenactments, where creators matched the shrug frame for frame, and comedy clips, including a cooking-video gag by creator Moteaeats that passed 800,000 views in three days after she pretended to order a dish named after the hook. According to reports, unrelated clips set to the same audio kept the sound in rotation through early October, proving the track had outgrown its anime origins.

Mandem Style shows how TikTok revives music. A two-year-old remix, an anime shrug and a nonsense hook combined into a format anyone can join, and the result is a song that finally found its audience years after it was made.

What to watch next

Watch for gaming and cooking versions next, because the sound has already shown it can leave its anime origins behind. Creators in other niches can pair the hook with their own footage, from recipe videos to sports clips, and the shrug timing gives every version a built-in punchline. Trend trackers say the track’s long quiet period before its viral moment is part of its story, and that story encourages other creators to revive old songs. If the sound keeps appearing in unrelated videos, it will become a general-purpose meme audio rather than a single-fandom joke.

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