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Why Is My Bus Driver Playing Mitski?

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Why Is My Bus Driver Playing Mitski?
Why Is My Bus Driver Playing Mitski?

Why Is My Bus Driver Playing Mitski?

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Memecoin

Name
Why Is My Bus Driver Playing Mit
Image
the meme's own image, fixed
Pair
$MEME, the mother coin. This coin becomes a child of $MEME.
Rewards
1% of every trade of this child coin, paid to its holders in $MEME
Website
kym.fun/memes/why-is-my-bus-driver-playing-mitski

One signature creates the coin on pump.fun (you pay only pump.fun's creation cost, about 0.02 SOL). With a first buy, a second signature buys it right after. The first launch claims this meme for good.

About

Why Is My Bus Driver Playing Mitski? is a series of memes based on a viral video of TikToker @dannydawg95 filming themselves riding the bus in what appears to be red face paint as Mitski's "Bag Of Bones" plays in the background, an overlayed caption reading, "Why is my bus driver playing Mitski?" The video was posted at the end of January 2025 and garnered viral spread over the following months, becoming the subject of memes that play off of the TikToker's inexplicably red face and the fact that they do not mention it in the video, the joke being that people would rather know why their face is

Why Is My Bus Driver Playing Mitski?

Origin

The full history, spread and examples live on the source entry: Why Is My Bus Driver Playing Mitski? on Know Your Meme.

The Child Coin

Whoever launches this meme first creates its one official child coin of $MEME. The child coin takes this exact image, is priced in $MEME, and pays 1% of its every trade to its holders, in $MEME. After that, the meme is closed here forever.