Memes / Mariya Takeuchi

• It all started when user Plastic Lover reuploaded a seven-minute version of the song (the original five-minute version was uploaded previously but removed) on July 5, 2017, featuring a picture of Takeuchi from her "Sweetest Music / Morning Glory" single cover.
• That particular video then gained more than 5.33 million views as of January 2018, with the YouTube algorithm putting it on everyone's recommended lists for some reason before it too got taken down for copyright infringement.
• The 2018 reupload sat at 53 million views as of August 2022 before it too got copyright claimed.
• The memetic song became not only representative of the (neologism) "City Pop" genre, but it's also regularly sampled in Vaporwave and Future Funk works.
• It also got countless remixes, reaction videos, song covers, instrumental covers, English version covers, and memes made about it, making it one of City Pop's most iconic songs.
• Mariya Takeuchi even shows up as a SiIvaGunner's King for a Day Tournament contender. Her entry used rips from "Plastic Love" and many of her other songs as well as those of other City Pop artists.