User blog:The Testcardiologist/A new anthem for a new Kaehia: forging the weirdest meme

How can the theme song of a low-budget television program, sent to a dozen local TV stations in Talcia, become a meme in Transania and led to a terrible petition suggesting the government to change Onward, Kaehia to the theme song of the show above?

That show is the show of Jorge Castro de la Barra (and I assume any of you Chileans probably heard it first from when he appeared on Mega's CQC, when the big networks were unable to send footage and all they did was watch Más Canal 22), whose intro, unchanged in at least twenty years, is dangerously catchy.

How did this meme emerge?

Emergence
Joke petitions come from nonsensical reasons. People have threatened to change the Dwesish flag because of the arrival of immigrants from Muslim countries, and that's not gonna work. The petition to make Jorge Castro de la Barra's theme song as the Kaehian anthem was also a joke.

As far as we're aware of, on June 6, 2020, while watching the Kaehian anthem during a reduced awards ceremony, a Castillan simply known as "El Chito" said something along the lines of "wea himno fome po, mejor el tema de Jorge Castro de la Barra". The "wea himno fome po" was in reference to a Talcian he was talking to, while the theme song came in reference to an episode of Canal 15 about regional networks. (IRL the episode was about Channel 22 in Santiago. BTW the speculated "3TV" came true in Nouvelle Baie, but for just a few months)

Suddenly, a Twitter user pasted the show's theme song over images of a KBC closedown video, the anthem one.

Massification
Out of nowhere, the video was posted onto YouTube and achieved a small cult status in Hispanotransalia, in Talcia less so. It was intended to be a meme. Suddenly one of the members started a petition on change.org (in English) to change the anthem of Kaehia to Jorge Castro de la Barra's theme song. It didn't take long before the petition reached the Kaehian government and led to massive confusion.

The petition gathered 60 signatures within a week, but over time the petition rose to over a thousand, including signatures made in Kaehia.

A lesson learned?
UNDER CONSTRUCTION?