
Within 24 hours the video accumulated upwards of 2.7 million views and 35,200 comments. On June 27th, 2018, YouTuber PewDiePie released a video about the Obunga meme titled "OBUNGA 💖ELAS 🆃🅷🅸🅲🅲💖 GIRL" (shown below).

On June 21st, 2018, bepis.man posted another meme that gained over 44,000 views and 4,800 likes in the same period (shown below, right). For example, on June 15th, 2018, Instagram user bepis.man posted a Five Nights at Freddy's Obunga meme that gained over 31,000 views and 3,200 likes in four years (shown below, left). In June 2018, the meme experienced a burst in popularity as multiple Instagram accounts posted Obunga memes, including screamer videos. On June 11th, the first version of the image uploaded along with music from Five Nights at Freddy's was uploaded by YouTuber by Maguku (shown below, right).

On February 14th, 2018, YouTuber Homosneksual uploaded a video titled Obunga.mov, featuring the photoshopped image accompanied by the "new round" sound effect in Call of Duty: World at War (shown below, left). On March 29th, 2016, the photoshopped image was submitted to the /v/ ( video games) board on 4chan with the filename Juhrack Johbama.jpg.

While the exact origin of the photoshopped image is unknown, the earliest archived instance on 4chan was submitted to the /tv/ (television) board on July 24, 2013.
