Influence

Delayed success of Jonathan Cohen’s “Weeeu weeeh” on Twitter

Jonathan Cohen has caused a stir on the web with a sketch published a few years ago. We rediscover a scene where he pretends to be a policeman and goes as far as imitating the sound of the siren of a police car. It took a tweet to create the buzz.

11 Jan 2022 - 2 min read

Hello you, 

Jonathan Cohen is a French actor and humorist. He met a resounding success in 2021 with the release of the French series La Flamme (offbeat criticism of the reality show The Bachelor). Here the actor returns to the front of the stage … without his knowledge. An Internet user shared a video of a sketch made a few years ago with an undercover policeman. Result? An immediate hit. Passion Media comes back on this buzz not to be missed. 

Jonathan Cohen, social network influencer in spite of himself

Everything starts with a video. It shows a compilation of the best sketches of the French actor and humorist Jonathan Cohen. And in the batch, an onomatope that will panic the web: “WEEEU WEEEU”. More concretely, we see the actor in the skin of a police officer. He plays then by being infiltrated and has fun in several situations to pass himself for a police officer. He shouts Weeeu Weeeh several times, in order to replace the noise that could make the siren of a police car. This video is nothing new, but it resurfaced through a tweet recently published by the Internet user @OutOfCohen. The result? Immediate success. Almost 20,000 retweets, 100,000 likes and no less than 1,300 tweets relaying the video in the process. 

 

The 5 best reactions from Internet users 

As usual, the CM of Netflix was there. He bounces back almost immediately on the subject through a response with an Internet user. He realizes the tour de force of bouncing on the news while making the link with the Netflix topics. 

We also find an amused tweet from a user with a screenshot of the phenomenon in the top trends on the platform.

We also find the Minister of Transport, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari who takes the risky bet of bouncing on the news. He takes up the wording of Jonathan Cohen but talking about a subject that is at least stormy: nuclear power.

 

Logically, we also find the Tweet of the CM of Canal +. The platform has even gone further by creating for the occasion a section called “WEEEU WEEEU” for films and crime series. This is an action that had already been done by Netflix to bounce on several current topics, but which has the merit of always marking the occasion. For those who follow the news of Jonathan Cohen, Canal + is the channel that broadcasts the series The Flame.

And to finish in beauty, the tweet of an Internet user who derides this trend.