Remixes of the tune have proliferated, and, in the ultimate sign of normie crossover, even made it on the radio.
Mix the old Robert Smigel celebrity impressions on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” with those strange Quiznos Spongmonkey mascots and you get something close to Brian Jordan Alvarez’s social-media character TJ Mack, a wannabe pop star with a habit of putting the letter “M” in places it doesn’t quite belong. His pronunciation is sui generis—meaning that the lyrics of the earworm “Sitting,” which has become a huge viral hit, basically defy transcription. The basic idea is that sitting is the opposite of standing, a statement that a lot of people, it turns out, are ready to endorse. Remixes of the tune have proliferated, and, in the ultimate sign of normie crossover, even made it on the radio.