African Tickly Song (also known as African Tickly Time) is a short snippet of an unidentified meme-like traditional African song, featuring a yelling vocal that is autotuned/distorted (and supposedly reverbed).
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The song was recorded from Radio Ndarason Int FM 107.1 in N'Djamena, Chad around August 13th, 2025, later then posted on TikTok by user @peanut_butter_easter_51. Since that time, a longer snippet hasn't been discovered yet.
Four days later, the current Lostwave's Unfinest channel uploaded the song onto YouTube, making it gain more traction. They first posted it with a meme image of Kung Fu Panda, but reposted with another image (see also Gallery) and deleted the previous upload. The song became quickly shared on YouTube and TikTok by several Lostwave posters, such as LostwaveFinder.
On August 21st, 2025, user The real fighting machine the 5th managed to find the same vocal being used in another unidentified African song, played on the same radio station, as an attempt to find a longer snippet for the song. Said song is possibly made by the same people who created “African Tickly Song”, but it’s unconfirmed as of now.
Leads & Theories
Active
Currently, there’s none.
Debunked
GIVING HEAD
On September 25th, 2025, users knowntriangle, SodaRev! and Thundrysh allegedly found the author of the song, as GIVING HEAD - bing chilling (feat. Gotti Brown-Ruckman, Amelia Olinger, peanutbutterlover59 & Sck). It has been quickly debunked, as the snippet loops throughout the entire “song”, it was made after the original snippet was posted online, and the “song” itself is obviously fake.
Lyrics (interpretation)
[Incomplete instrumental]
AYYYYY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAAAA AYYYYYYYY
[Incomplete instrumental]
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