What is going on with Lebron James fans on TikTok? Fresno finds out

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - TikTokers person taken to their favourite societal media app to praise their favourite hoops subordinate with seemingly random, inexplicably high-effort parodies of immoderate of the top philharmonic hits of the past century.

The inclination started adjacent the Spring of 2025 and was made fashionable by the "Man connected the Lakers," a parody of the Grammy-nominated Michael Jackson song, "Man successful the Mirror."

Since the inclination began, dozens of parodies person sprung up - each praising James successful their ain way. While the treatment of who is the NBA's GOAT (greatest of each time), YourCentralValley.com acceptable retired to reply the question: What is the TikTok Lebron James parody GOAT?

Top endowment and behind-the-scenes unit astatine KSEE24 and CBS47 listened to 3 of the many, galore parodies connected TikTok including, "I Write Sins Not Tragedies," parody "Panic astatine Le Disco," and "I Kissed a Girl," parody "I Kissed Lebron."

The station's statement victor is the parody that started it all: "Man connected the Lakers."

All on-air endowment polled voted for "Man connected the Lakers," shutting down the competition, but not with immoderate feedback for anyone looking to marque caller parodies, of which determination are much and much each day.

According to KSEE24 anchor Brody Logan, the archetypal trend-setting parody didn't effort truthful hard to stress "glazing" Lebron. Co-anchor Taryn Mitchell not lone agreed the different songs were "try-hards," but besides added that the "Man successful the Mirror" melody was nostalgic and called for a consciousness of cosmopolitan happiness successful audiences.

Taryn did accidental that arsenic a millennial, her bosom raced erstwhile she heard Panic astatine the Disco's celebrated melody parodied.

There are countless much parodies inactive being made connected TikTok. While the KSEE24 and CBS47 newsroom seems definite thing volition apical the archetypal parody, there's inactive clip for everyone other to formed their ballot to decide.

Which bash you deliberation is the GOAT?