You On Kazoo! was a dead media for almost three decades. Suddenly, the Kazoo Kid re-appeared in 2011 as a five-minute commercial segment on YouTube by Jim VanBlarium.
Later, in August 2014, a remixed and short version of the commercial got over half a million views and became a hit. Thanks to Dead VCR's official channel, which uploaded the hilarious video and appealed to the audience. As of January 2021, the video has over 50 million views on the Platform.
The next phase of You On Kazoo!'s internet storm came in 2015 when one of the Reddit users uploaded the video, which gained a lot of attraction and even led to numerous fan versions and revamped mixes posted on SoundCloud and YouTube. Also, there were several reaction videos on clips made by popular YouTubers.
Countless remixes, memes, and parodies of the commercial clip went viral, and google searches spiked with interest in the Kazoo Kid. But until 2016, nobody knew who he really was.
On January 7, 2016, a Twitter user named @penguin_man97 revealed the Kazoo Kid's real identity via tweet. The mysterious boy in a blue t-shirt turned out to be Brett Ambler.
