When you could fair bear had the music “Aims” by Fleetwood Mac caught on your head for the previous few weeks, there is an correct chance you’ve TikTokker Nathan Apodoca and his cranberry juice-fueled skateboarding video to thank for it. Even the band’s drummer and founding member Mick Fleetwood weighed in and known as the video “provocative.”
In a letter printed by TMZ, Fleetwood reached out to Apodoca (whose take care of on TikTok is @420doggface208) and congratulated him on his video’s success. “Howdy there Nathan…” the letter began. “Mick Fleetwood right here….”
“What a wild stir you are on,” the drummer wrote. “Im [sic] so gay you impressed me to become a ingredient of your fantastic depart! How enormous it is it that you just’ve brought so many smiles to hundreds and hundreds of of us in an global honest when it is/became once needed.”
Apodoca became once appreciative of Fleetwood’s message. “It became once chilly that he took the day out of his life to take a seat there and write me a non-public letter,” Apodoca instructed Newsweek in an emailed audio message. “It became once superior.”
Apodoca went viral with the “morning vibes” TikTok first posted on September 25. The video, showing him skating alongside to the 1977 Rumours be conscious, has since been considered over 38.2 million cases on TikTok, garnering over 6.7 million likes.
Apodoca’s video has impressed a necessity of imitators and parodies, and even a pair of celebrities and politicians bear delivered their very bear bear on it. Dr. Phil posted his bear parody with him using what appears to be a golf cart thru a studio lot, titled “Afternoon vibes.” Montana Lt. Governor Mike Cooney moreover shared his bear version of the video on Twitter, titled “montana needs.”
Whereas the inspiration that Fleetwood became once relating to in his letter will be unclear, it is fully that you just could think that he became once relating to the incontrovertible fact that Apodoca’s video resulted in him creating his bear TikTok fable, recreating the video. “@420doggface208 had it correct. Aims and Cranberry honest hits assorted,” Fleetwood wrote in the outline for his TikTok, which has garnered 9.7 million views.
Even Ocean Spray popular Apodoca’s video, sending him a truck loaded with the cran-raspberry juice that he drinks in the video, in step with CNN. Ocean Spray CEO Tom Hayes moreover posted a video of himself imitating Apodoca on TikTok. Apodoca popular and thanked Ocean Spray by taping a video of himself lip-syncing alongside to “Aims” whereas in the truck, a bottle of cran-raspberry juice resting between his legs. The truck has since been featured in a necessity of movies that Apodoca has shared on TikTok.
Newsweek reached out to Fleetwood Mac’s management company, however did now not receive a response in time for newsletter.
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