The Complete History of that Josh Hutcherson Whistle Edit Meme

In November 2023, an edit of Josh Hutcherson from 2014 began to be shared on the internet, featuring the song Whistle. The edit quickly became a meme and rapidly spread across TikTok and appearing anywhere and everywhere. But where did the Josh Hutcherson Whistle Edit come from? Why, after almost 10 years, has it suddenly began to become popular? And who made the Josh Hutcherson Whistle edit originally?
If you haven't already guessed, this video answers those questions.
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[@JoeRegrets]

Hi! Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays to those who celebrate :) I am aware this video is incredibly late and the meme has very much been and gone, but to tell you the truth, I began working on this video in late November and then as other video topics came up (Gag City) and time went on, this video went into the Joe Regret’s vault (Taylor isn’t the only icon with one). However, as I continued working on my other videos, it became clear that they wouldn’t be ready before Christmas and I kinda wanted a video up before Christmas (so I could write “Merry Christmas” to you all in the pinned comment), so I quickly took this one out of the vault and finished it to post on Christmas Eve. Thank you all for supporting the channel and my videos throughout 2023 and I can’t wait to make more in 2024! 😊 P.S. The thumbnail is temporary, honest.

[@thespoon7657]

You are an absolute legend.

[@Milk_bbctwinkrapist]

I literally love u vids I just used a chainsaw as my vibratior cause I lost it lol ❤❤❤❤

[@U_vejs]

OMG!!! you should do a "Vault" series! 😱 where you sum up some of these short lived memes..... like every 3-4 month a so! 🙈 and you can even do a Joe's version with memes that were suuupeeerr niche

[@HassanRaashid]

Honey, I'm here to tell you this meme is still up and running, it may not be viral anymore though. Happy holidays ❤❤

[@purplepinkblue18364]

I still see this edit absolutely everywhere, dont worry

[@7-67-7]

"I stay off the internet, its scary" this is the statement of all time.

[@princembat]

he was so real for that

[@coledakers6127]

11:33

[@Nerdy__Doll]

As someone who isn't on tiktok even I have been bombarded with this meme, in its purest form too lol literally was recommended THE edit itself by youtube back when it first blew up and I of course clicked on it and have been followed everywhere by it since then 💀💀

[@RED-my9hl]

i was recommended mugs and shirts with the meme on etsy lmao

[@nailinthefashion]

I have just been watching tiktok compilations, I don't like going on the actual app to hunt, I've always been so confused

[@nailinthefashion]

​@@RED-my9hlmy audible oh my god

[@rachelcookie321]

I’m not on tiktok and haven’t seen this edit at all. I clicked on this video because I had no idea what the title was talking about.

[@qqqqqqqqqqqqqq7665]

I have been bombarded with this meme on PINTEREST. You don’t know how confused I was.

[@CitrusClown]

ah yes the best christmas gift ever: a new joe regrets video

[@BirdThrOwO]

so youre on the naughty list❤️

[@by_tianowen]

​@@BirdThrOwO ijboll

[@_sunchildd]

lmao yesss! ❤

[@ruthinepford]

well i got a macbook so no

[@ginandromeda1618]

​@@ruthinepfordWeird flex but ok

[@lmnop29]

I don't blame Josh Hutcherson for staying off the Internet. I remember in the height of the Hunger Games craze, there were fans who showed up to his mom's house while he was visiting her 😭

[@markilier2388]

i'm playing hunger games with the peanut butter in the kitchen rofl🤣

[@minisn3066]

Well even though he tried his best, the meme followed him at his latest interviews 😂

[@LindyLime]

Yikes how do they even find him like do they have a master's degree in stalking?

[@KellyRyan-k9k]

So this is becoming a Rick Roll, basically

[@sumlem]

Ding ding It's like getting beaned, gnomed, and stick bugged like the 2017-19 memes and getting Krissed 2020

[@dylanverstraete5323]

@@sumlemor coconut malled

[@nerdyninjatemptress]

It’s Rick Roll’s fandom obsessed teenage sibling.

[@caril.9384]

Yep

[@jeppyxderudar]

you’re the new internet historian of this generation. 😭 well-researched assignments. i’ll give you my 10’s for this educational content.

[@nailinthefashion]

He isn't THE internet historian of this generation but is he is one em at least (Girls episode 1 reference)

[@usernameirrelevant]

internet historian without the plagiarizing and right wing politics

[@noelialeny295]

him, strange aeons, izzzyzzz, li speaks, they complement each others content ✨magnificently✨

[@markilier2388]

bruh 10/100 is nothing

[@thisorthat7746]

@@usernameirrelevant afaik it was just the man in cave video and he reuploaded it later with a credit to the article. the right wing stuff i never heard of, i watched almost all his videos and i dont recall him ever stated his politics.

[@berry_cakeisgood]

As someone who didn’t fucking know what was happening in the 2010’s because I was a child and now that I’m 18 and seeing Josh Hunterson being in the fnaf movie which I been waiting for 8 years I’m glad there’s a resurgence especially for Josh

[@nailinthefashion]

10/10 lore

[@baashasucks]

I'm 21 and I remember "being there" for Yung Lean blowing up in 2013-15... I remember when KZbinrs could customise their entire channel pages and you could rate videos out of five stars... when videos could only be like five minutes long so one pirated anime episode had to be uploaded in like 10 parts, and the internet was the wild west so copyright was loose asf... I'm only three years older than you. I'm realising this is not a you problem, but rather a me problem 😭

[@NahNoWayy]

​@baashasucks being there for the Yung Lean sadboi era was truly an experience

[@swain-Ix1tv]

@@baashasucks god damn that sounds like heaven (except thevideo limit. i do watch jenny nicholson)

[@baashasucks]

@@swain-Ix1tv older millennials really got the best experience of the internet in my opinion as an older gen z, I was basically a proto-ipad baby lmao. when I was 5 I used to sit on my 16yo aunt's lap while she used myspace and she taught me how to navigate youtube, play neopets, and illegally download music with youtube to mp3 converters. I mean yeah, it was ugly and inefficient and niche, but it was a LOT of fun and still felt like this special thing that wasn't such a mundane part of modern life

[@6235river]

god i miss the 2010-2014 era of youtube tv/movie edits. what a fun community that was; i met so many friends that way.

[@rubyy.7374]

In general terms, I felt like that time was the perfect balance between the “Wild West” era and the subsequent centralization of the internet. It will always have a place in my heart ❤

[@Hyperion4K]

I never left 2014 😭

[@markilier2388]

fuck youtube wasn't even around then

[@sarahberkner]

I've made a Star Trek mashup recently and realized afterwards that supposedly that was cool 10 years ago, but I couldn't care less and I still think they're cool if I like the song choice and tv show or movie.

[@sarahberkner]

​@@markilier2388 Yeah it was, I first watched KZbin in 2010.

[@oswaldobetarelli4776]

Joe sending out presents for us on Christmas Eve, gurl now that’s good customer service

[@nailinthefashion]

CUSTOMER SERVICE HAS ME JIGGLING BABES

[@CA-bw9vw]

I was obsessed with the hunger games as a "not like other girls" girl back then and I HAD NO IDEA about this and now there's a whole exposition video on it. Unreal 😂

[@nailinthefashion]

Me: no I'm fully like whichever girls cuz this book is fire 🤯

[@WingItMan217]

As someone who was also a thg fan back in the day, this is like the second coming

[@bradenwelke111]

I have so much respect for Josh for staying off the internet completely. “It’s scary” 🥺💔

[@JameSmith-oj5qb]

This video isn't loading but i swear to God if its a video explaining the Josh Hutcherson whistle edit meme

[@seineevee]

Well.

[@kingaling6701]

Lionsgate was so evil for that. Not giving us any hunger games extended cuts but trolling us with that meme. 😩

[@nailinthefashion]

There was dozens of hours of special features on the original Hunger Games DVD idk if you can find it on YT but it's worth looking. They had HANDHELD CAMERAS FOR THEIR VLOGGING and then transitioned to their phones 😭😭😭😭😭 I dieddddd

[@Kaijuchainsaw63]

Brooo we got the same character as our Pfps 💀💀☠️☠️

[@Mr_Muda_Himself]

we got Robert Pattenson with Batman, Josh Hutcherson with five nights at Freddy‘s, even the guy who played Rodrick in Oppenheimer, so which 2010s teen heartthrob do you think it’s going to be the next to have a resurgence?

[@nailinthefashion]

Hopefully it's a god damn person of color cuz I'm so over "random white brunette masculine male"

[@ivanwalker2269]

​@@nailinthefashionIn that case, Taylor Lautner.

[@nailinthefashion]

@@ivanwalker2269 that's a refreshing pick even if it's passing the paper bag test (as in they're acceptable if they're no darker than a brown paperbag) Oh my god the steam because he's licherally hot HAHAHAHAAHAH gyyaaaaaaddddddddddammit that was funnyyyy

[@HeartbeatCN]

​@@nailinthefashionOf course this comes from a "random weird-looking bitter person on the internet".

[@nailinthefashion]

@@HeartbeatCN right on cue!!!!! you must be said straight white masculine male who is offended when someone is tired of white supremacy lol. Okay, Carl, yes of course I'm weird looking when people are obsessed with Joshes, Kevins, Chrises. I accept that, thanks for your opinny. And if you're a person of color.. SHAAAAAAAME! WE SHAME YOU!

[@yejikun]

3:31 did I just hear five nights at Fredrick?? 😂💀

[@nickkurr5275]

😭😭

[@AJ.o]

💀

[@freebeerishere]

Why is the Hutchers apology more meaningful than any other social media apology that was actually necessary.

[@ferretappreciator]

Because it was real....

[@spooki333]

@@ferretappreciatorwell obviously it was real, but its not like he did something seriously worth apologizing for compared to youtubers/celebrities who have just said “sowwy please forgive me 🥺” over serious allegations

[@irsyadiaryadiva9430]

He's also in Zathura, and this movie introduced me to Josh. What a classic.

[@AlbertKimMusic]

Same 😂

[@TigerLilly4495]

It was RV for me 😅

[@robertolebron2296]

What about Journey to the Center of the Earth

[@TindraSan]

it's insane how huge the internet is. the way a meme can feel like it's literally everywhere but it's actually just scratching a fraction of the world. I probably would have seen it everywhere if I used tiktok regularly, but bc I barely use tiktok at all the only time I ever saw it was when someone used it in a video essay when a FNAF jumpscare was about to happen (so like a mix between a cheeky bait-n-switch and a way to protect their viewers from the loudness of the jumpscare) and that's the only reason I felt compelled to click on this video. I'd completely forgotten Josh had played the main guy in the movie so the bit caught me completely off guard but still made me laugh bc I'm a late millennial weak to dada-esque humor lol

[@sarahberkner]

Right, I feel like I've been spending too much time online but I just heard about it on a Tonight Show video.

[@JacobJohnson-lh4gx]

Ahh maan I remember that 2014 Josh Hutcherson whistle video, I was still attending college when I first watched it. It was because Hunger Games was the hype back then and my female classmates wouldn't shut up about him that they would play that exact video and other Josh Hutcherson videos on our computer lab's projector for everyone to see. It was torture to my ears hearing them giggle and scream hard every time his face pops up. Also maan that song about Flo Rida blowing his "whistle" it totally went over my head, if you didn't know well now you know. But overall Josh Hutcherson is a great actor, I'm planning to rewatch HG again to see if it holds up today haha. Thanks for the christmas gift JoeRegrets we appreciate this!

[@nailinthefashion]

Sweetie, baby, honey, like a week ago I watched all 4 over the course of 2 days and then pirated Songbirds. Gurrrrrrrlllllllllll I started braiding my hair and looking for my heavy duty jackets all over again. They are INCREDIBLE and still made me cry, gasp, and laugh. Buckle up, get your favorite snacks... and enjoy!!!!

[@HeyItsYourMom]

They definitely hold up the same now than they did years ago. I would definitely recommend watching all 4 of the movies back to back. It brought back good memories that I really needed.

[@EmoPrincessOW]

the best internet historian back with another banger 😭

[@Mrkeengamingplayz0623]

“Five Night’s at Fredrick’s”

[@BeeJayDeeEff]

Not Joe repeating “Girlz with a zed” every time he reads the MetroGirlzStation KZbin channel name 😂

[@aizuni]

I had uninstalled TikTok because i saw too many stupid things on it, but Josh Hutcherson haunted me on Instagram and KZbin as well

[@MidnightVrgaming]

I love how the edit is STILL holding strong in December😂😂

[@mebemea]

“With a Zed” had me cracking up every time, I love the continuity 😂

[@maryalicefike4704]

liongates “not loud enough” is the first brand reply that has made me genuinely laugh for minutes

[@simplestuniverse]

I swear somehow these type of memes themselves never breach my social media algorithm, instead I always just see people making references to it which makes me so confusion... Joe Regrets videos are a godsend I would be so lost

[@wjnter]

halfway through the video i just started to laugh uncontrollably thinking about how ridiculous yet hilarious this meme is and how far it went😭 definitely THEE meme of november and one of the funniest things this year. why did we enjoy this so much??

[@rc.czarii]

Ngl, everytime I see Josh's face.. I always kept getting childhood flashbacks of Leslie's unexpected *death* in bridge to terabithia-🧍🏻‍♀️

[@gracob]

"with a z"....every time it got funnier.

[@thespoon7657]

The ending was everything I needed.

[@bgs7529]

Now THIS is a history lesson

[@satohime]

"some of you would have literally been 4" hit me like a truck. i don't want to live in the same world as people born in 2010😭

[@SheliakDragon]

Uh, by that logic you should have either offed yourself in 2010 or offed every newborn baby in that year. Both options are not remotely practical so I suggest you learn to live with it.

[@leobe2104]

That's kinda weird

[@sarahberkner]

Well you have been since 2010.

[@sneakypenguin2861]

I had a colleague at work who was born in 2005, and I told him he shouldnt be at work he should be in year 9 at school, getting ready for his GCSEs. 😂

[@kaylabey]

right? i’m like you guys aren’t even old enough to be on youtube 😂

[@magotbeIIi]

3:32 bro really said "five nights at frederick's" 😭

[@scewbythedog]

Randomly remembered I’m mutuals with hutchers and came to watch this video

[@themeaslychild]

THE JUMPSCARE AT THE END WAS FOUL

[@monkai666]

It's weird to hear about a whole new rick roll meme that went this far and having no idea about it. Makes you realise how disconnected you can be from trends when you're outside the algorithm target.

[@bri33626]

i love this channel. i can keep tik tok deleted and still be updated on the chaos

[@suvellynjimenez6006]

you have done it again king. constantly raising the bar for us all

[@Gr95dc]

I was introduced to this meme by Dan and Phil Games, I was curious what was it about it, but never cared enough to search, your videos always come i to save me from completely getting out of touch with pop culture.

[@chegayvara1136]

I can't belive they are still going but very relieved they came out and revealed they had dated. Pretty shocked Dan at least was closeted even to his family until 2019

[@foxbuns]

​@@chegayvara1136the way youre fangirling about that is so creepy and fetishishtic. of course they hid themselves from the public, yall were utterly obsessed with their private sex lives when they were children. 🤨

[@wjnter]

hold on, which video of theirs did they mention the meme in? i need to see this lmfao i missed it

[@killitwithfire5377]

@@wjnterThey definitely mentioned it in the speed dating video on their gaming channel but that‘s not the only one. i think it was referenced once or twice, relatively shortly before that video but i don‘t remember where exactly

[@nightfrost1891]

i don't even really use tik tok but it was under every post on twitter LOL

[@rzuue]

the fact that I watched that edit nearly 10 years ago, don't have tiktok and didn't know it got a renessaince and YET knew immediately which specific Josh Hutcherson edit this video would refer to as soon as I saw the picture. Josh Hutcherson was my celebrity crush since he starred in Journey to the Center of the Earth (I watched Bridge to Terabithia much later) and these pictures just burned themselves into the back of my head and I didn't know until I saw people referencing the same pictures this year just how precisely I remember all of that

[@shrutinarain3135]

Omggg samee! I was crushing crushing in early 2010s

[@RooLooMoo]

i don't know what's more shocking in the video, the fact that it's about the josh hutcherson edit or seeing one of my tiktok moots in the video LMFAO

[@coriohttv]

"the alleged club banger" stop that's perfect

[@sickowawawa4014]

as a josh hutcherson stan ever since the first hunger games im smiling trough people cry and tears

[@Mostach89]

he handed the assignment so quick and for christmas, okay work 😍

[@ashp4613]

i lovet his guys videos because he can have the stupidest shit in the backround while talking so calmly it actually makes me cackle out loud like the fucking pancake transition 😭😭😭

[@mxyxpxn]

we have to definitely thank the "metro girlz with a z station" for the memes and laughs 😂👍

[@serenitysfirefly]

As of 3 days ago, Josh confirmed he saw the meme on the Jimmy Fallon show.

[@AnnaWaytray]

3:30 'five nights at fredrick's' 😂

[@Ayo_boii]

the edit of Josh Hutcherson and the song Whistle has now 12MILLION VIEWS the views LITTERLY DOUBLED

[@Anobluu]

My reaction at the end: "Thank you, I needed that exp- FUCK OFF!!" 😂😂

[@emei282]

I love your educational content.

[@coconut9065]

me at the end: I got tricked, bamboozled and hoodwinked

[@Victoria.8.7]

I've seen him talk about it in interviews lately but yet they never explained it, thanks for the background info👍

[@temporaryspacestudios]

Great video! The lineage of memes is always fascinating to me! Also, this is my first exposure to this particular meme. I love the internet!

[@jeicattiling1457]

Merry christmas, thank you for your vids and because of that. Theres a chance I'll be focusing my research assignment on Floptropica

[@samanthabessey9377]

Best Christmas gift ever!!

[@JoeRegrets]

Merry Christmas :)

[@Herykkusu]

"I was actually begging out loud for not being a josh hutcherson edit" Lionsgate: "not loud enough" Had me rolling 🤣

[@cool_dude1987]

"five nights at fedrick's" had me rolling on the floor💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@someoneontheinternet6173]

This was posted at the exact moment Christmas started in my timezone, what a great present :)

[@xwxcatwomanxwx]

Thank you for demystifying this. I was so confused with this meme 😅

[@jdchy6181]

OH MY GOD TYSM as someone who doesnt use tiktok i’ve been SO PUZZLED abt this meme on my other socials everywhere 😭🙏🏼

[@Epicconor1]

Finding out there still out there is nice to see. I generally hope they make more edits

[@ssnekky]

As a kpop fan, I am far too used to getting got that this Josh Hutcherson thing felt like an average Tuesday to me. I get Sunghooned on the regular. It’s been 2 years send help

[@briannakyse5167]

Maybe I’m too deep in the K-pop trenches or something but I found out about the Whistle meme THROUGH different idols doing the “hands-behind-the-head” pose and I was so confused and had to look it up lol

[@serenitysfirefly]

2:32 Seeing the names Tris and Tobias again after 10 years was like a mental flashbang. 👁👄👁 I was a massive Divergent fan when I was 12. Edit: Just noticed the edit of Robin and Regina from Once Upon a Time on the right. These are such throwbacks, I feel so old. 😭

[@SakuraNana09]

I clicked this video because I watched an interview of him with puppies, I think on buzzfeed channel, they talked about this meme and I had no idea what they were talking about 😂😂 Now everything is very clear, thank you 😂

[@iamaloserkid]

I've seen this meme referenced a few times by other people, without any knowledge or context on it, so thanks for explaining where the hell this came from 😅

[@knowbowlgaming]

Last week youtube recommended me Josh H Whistle and so of course I had to watch it and share with my friends. I only had one question, "why?", and you've more than answered that question for me. This is better than any Christmas gift I got this year.

[@theduggening3061]

i saw it recently as a mod in the game lethal company which replaces an enemies usual tune with the edited song and an image on one of the sides on the enemy himself. There is also a similar mod which changes the song to freebird, then when the solo hits he chases you.

[@arthurnoronha4736]

as a person who's not on tiktok this channel is the funniest one i follow, bc I have never know what to expect ! i love your takes on these trends! keep at it lmaooo

[@afiqazman6615]

Yeah I never saw or knew this meme until on a FNAF interview Josh Hutcherson was asked about it. He even commented about it on Wired Autocomplete interview.

[@ghost.ink.]

3:30 FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDERICK'S 😭

[@DrMario_666]

I love this channel. I honestly haven’t heard of a single topic from any of your videos but you make it interesting still 😂

[@CianBuchanan]

Bro caught me off guard with the edit at the end

[@Ceilingfandom]

"keep calm and carry on" shirts in 2011

[@khronicallykatt]

Okay I definitely recall this now. I’m caught up. 😂😂😂 this is fantastic

[@domgluhwein]

This is the best KZbin channel ever, truly historic, informative, vital for culture

[@Sama-ge5zw]

I kept seeing the gifs of this in Instagram reels comments and had no idea it was a FUCKING WHISTLE EDIT 💀💀💀 That just makes it so much funnier to me 💀😭

[@charlesdoesmore5488]

Wow, i didn't expect a fandom of a horror game reviving an old edit and a classic track as well.

[@sar-xo7bp]

this video is ESSENTIAL. thank you. merry christmas indeed!

[@Valentaein]

Thanks for documenting this amazing piece of human history

[@Shenvuika]

"videos not loading but i swear to god if this is another josh hutcherson meme..." these comments on the tiktok vids always made me giggle

[@JBBrickFanatic]

This was a very helpful video. Thank you

[@earth_bound_misfit]

I saw a tv channel use this meme in a commercial for a hunger games marathon which was surreal

[@cintiavargas6617]

You forgot that If flo rida was your #1 Spotify artist during the Spotify wrapped, his personalized video was the Josh whistle edit 😂

[@avahorsman3337]

As someone who had a viral whistle meme video, I appreciate your service

[@ZackRekeSkjell]

I was very much into edits back in the days, and I am pretty sure I saw the Whistle one back when it was first around. It was so weird when it came around again. I haven’t been bombarded with it though as I’ve never been on TikTok.

[@itsangeline]

i’m a chronically online tiktok user so the josh hutcherson whistle edit was everywhere and i would see it so often it appeared in my dreams

[@lrgogo1517]

It's so crazy to think that The *Hünger* Games are back in the spotlight.

[@UnknownManFU]

0:36 huunngar games

[@ceo_of_good_music]

i've never been this early to one of your vids, and it's of one of my favorite memes too, ty for this christmas gift 🫶🏾

[@JoeRegrets]

Merry Christmas :)

[@ceo_of_good_music]

@@JoeRegrets merry christmas to you as well

[@vocalvole]

I was so excited to see a new video from you. It's such a fun way to learn about meme history. Joe Regrets, like Santa, always delivers. Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all!

[@Archil1234]

😂 I literally missed this entire thing. I watched an interview where he addressed it like two days ago and here I am trying to understand.

[@ZLink0692]

No one’s mentioning the Five Nights at Fredericks

[@laylammorais]

It's so funny to me, this whistle video was recommended to me on yt and for some reason I just stared at the thumbnail and decided to ignore it - completely unaware of the chaos of this meme 😂

[@battlecat6766]

Love that you thought he was covering the song 😂

[@miladeseitan]

Joe YOU DELIVER

[@ScrollCinnamon]

Josh hutcherson himself has seen the edits now 😭

[@Grievous-nx3iu]

Probably my favourite meme from 2023, I lowkey miss it