Boy who's obsessed with CORN goes viral as video of him becomes a song

‘A big lump with knobs… it has the juice!’ Young boy who is obsessed with CORN becomes a music sensation as viral video of him waxing lyrical about his favorite vegetable is remixed into a hit TikTok song with over 31M VIEWS

  • Julian Shapiro-Barnum, the host of @Recesstherapy, from New York took to TikTok to post a hilarious video of himself interviewing a little boy eating corn
  • The young boy immediately let out a huge grin and began listing off his most favorite things about the vegetable including how he likes it with ‘butter’
  • The little boy has been dubbed the ‘corn kid’ called the vegetable ‘beautiful’, and the video went viral  and one user even had his words turned into a song
  • Although the corn kid has yet to reveal his name, he’s cashing on his newfound fame with his Cameo page where he creates personalized videos for $140-$700 
  • Social media users fell even more in love with the ‘corn kid’ after hearing his pure and wholesome interview get turned into a song 
  • Users even made duets paying tribute to the ‘big lump of knobs’ while the corn kid’s viral lyrics played in the background  

When a little boy who’s obsessed with corn was interviewed about his favorite vegetable all of his dreams came true and he captured the heart of million of social media users when his words where turned into a viral song. 

Julian Shapiro-Barnum, the host of @Recesstherapy, from New York took to TikTok to post a hilarious video of himself interviewing a little boy eating corn. 

When he asked the little boy what he likes about corn, the young boy immediately let out a huge grin and began listing off his favorite things about the vegetable, becoming one of the most wholesome videos to ever reach the social media platform. 

In the viral video, which racked up over 15.4 million views, the little boy explained his love for corn. 

And although the corn kid has yet to reveal his name, he’s surely cashing on his newfound fame with his Cameo page where he creates personalized videos for fans and charges $140 per video, $700 per business video and $3 for a single message.

Julian Shapiro-Barnum, the host of @Recesstherapy, from New York took to TikTok to post a hilarious video of himself interviewing a little boy eating corn

The young boy immediately let out a huge grin and began listing off his most favorite things about the vegetable including how he likes it with ‘butter’


The corn kid described his never ending love for corn and even said it was his favorite thing

Although the corn kid has yet to reveal his name, he’s cashing on his newfound fame with his Cameo page where he creates personalized videos for $140 and business videos for $700

intro song for any meal/snack with corn 🌽 – from iconic interview on @doingthings

In the video that gained him his fame, he explained: ‘Ever since I was told that corn was real it tasted good, but when I tried it with butter, everything changed. I love corn!’ 

The boy who has been dubbed as ‘corn kid’ then took a giant bite out of the corn-on-the-cob he was munching on when he began the interview, showing everyone how much he really did love corn. 

Julian then asked: ‘Do you think everyone should be eating corn?’

And the little boy once again stole the hearts of everyone on TikTok and responded: ‘No, not everyone has to like it to be the best.’ 

He then began to talk about his other favorite things which included playing a ‘variety of games,’ before adding his all time favorite thing was ‘mostly corn.’

‘I mean just look at this thing. I can’t imagine a more beautiful thing. It’s corn! Because corn is awesome,’ he said as he held up the half-eaten corn-on-the-cob.  

And when asked to describe the vegetable he said: ‘[It’s] a big lump with knobs. It has the juice. It’s the part that mostly makes me like the corn.’

He concluded his adorable interview by wishing everyone a ‘corntastic day.’ 

And when the interviewer questioned his words he said: ‘What? It’s just a pun about corn.’ 

The little boy’s video then became viral and prompted TikToker who goes by @schmoyoho to even turn his words into a song. 

With 28 million views so far, the viral song of the little boy dishing about his favorite vegetable has gained even more love and has everyone addicted. 

The song features the ‘corn kid’s’ best ‘lyrics’ and includes fan favorite lines such as ‘it’s corn, with a big lump with knobs. It has the juice. I can’t imagine a more beautiful thing. 

‘It’s corn, I can tell you all about it. I mean, look at this thing.

‘When I tried it with butter everything changed.’ 

And of course, social media users fell even more in love with the ‘corn kid’ after hearing his pure and wholesome interview get turned into a song. 

So much so that many users have duetted the song while paying tribute to the ‘big lump of knobs.’ 

One user who goes by @cafehailee made a corn macaroni and cheese while the corn kid’s infamous lyrics played in the background. 


Many users have duetted the song while showing off their love of corn too, including user @cafehailee made a corn macaroni and cheese while the boy’s song played


Another user, who goes by @pepperonimuffin, showed off her dedication to corn while duetting the song

As the beloved corn song played in the background the TikToker showed off her various corn merch, including a corn blanket and a corn costume


User @happy.rugs loved the song so much she decided to make a rug of the ‘awesome’ vegetable


Another user who decorates keyboards and goes by @tinymakesthings , even decorated one keyboard with a miniature version of the vegetable

Users hearts melted like butter when they saw the duet and even wondered how the corn kid would react to the macaroni and cheese, with one user even saying, ‘if corn with butter changed this kid, wait till he see this.’ 

Another user, who goes by @pepperonimuffin, is known for loving corn almost as much as the little boy and showed off her dedication to the vegetable while duetting the song. 

As the beloved corn song played in the background the TikToker showed off her various corn merch, including a corn blanket and a corn costume, which she danced in while singing the vegetable song. 

User @happy.rugs loved the song so much she decided to make a rug of the ‘awesome’ vegetable, while of course the little boy’s words played in the background. 

Another user who decorates keyboards and goes by @tinymakesthings, even decorated one keyboard with a miniature version of the vegetable.

Social media couldn’t help but fall in love with corn kid and even joked about the iconic remix hitting Spotify.

Social media users fell even more in love with the ‘corn kid’ after hearing his pure and wholesome interview get turned into a song

‘I love him,’ commented one user. 

Another user added: ‘I would listen to him talk about corn for hours.’ 

‘I’m obsessed,’ wrote another user.  

‘When does this hit Spotify,’ questioned another. 

One user said: ‘He has been waiting his entire life for someone to bring up corn as a topic of conversation. you telling me he came up with that pun on the spot?!’

 Another user wrote: ‘The remix we didn’t know we needed.’ 

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