

There have also been dozens of questions on Yahoo! Answers asking whether or not LaBeouf really is a cannibal.Ĭelebrities such as Rob Lowe have even acknowledged the song, calling it "absolute genius." Additional images and GIFs relating to the song have appeared on Tumblr with the tag "#actual cannibal shia lebeouf." As of December 2012, a Facebook page for "Actual Cannibal Shia LeBeouf" has received more than 1200 likes. Remixes and parodies of the song have been found on YouTube and SoundCloud, where a dubstep version of the song posted on April 30th saw more than 26,600 plays in its first 24 hours. The video was shared on the viral content site BuzzFeed, Gawker, the World of Warcraft Wyrmrest Accord forums and /r/Music. The same day, a post was submitted to political site Democratic Underground by forum member Generic Brad, who asserted that several mentions of Shia LeBeouf on Wikipedia described him as an “actual cannibal.” Also on April 30th, YouTuber namefriend uploaded an animated music video for the song, which featured a bloody Shia LeBeouf hunting down a cartoon character with a Tumblr logo for a head. On April 30th, the “Actual Cannibal Shia LeBeouf” single topic blog launched, featuring photoshopped images and animated GIFs inspired by the song. On April 29th, The song was posted on Tumblr by Sarvel with the description “I searched Shia LeBeouf in SoundCloud and found this," gaining more than 80,000 notes in 48 hours.

Within 36 hours, the song had been played more than 14,000 times.

The Tally Hall fan wiki created a page with the song’s lyrics as well. The same day, the song was reposted to Reddit, BoingBoing and. On April 18th, 2012, Tally Hall fan site Hidden in the Sand posted a link to the song on their Facebook fan page. You fall to your knees and catch your breath. His head topples to the floor, expressionless. You counter to the right, you catch him in the neck. He’s dodging every swipe, he parries to the left. There’s a gun to your head and death in his eyes.īut you can do jiu jitsu… body slam Shia LaBeouf.īut blood is draining fast from your stump leg. EXTENDED LYRICS FOR 'SHIA LABEOUF LIVE'. You creep silently through the underbrush.īut your leg! AH! It's caught in a bear trap!įighting for your life with Shia Labeouf, Now it's dark and you seem to have lost him, He gets down on all fours and breaks into a sprint.Īnd you can see there's blood on his face! Out of the corner of your eye you spot him, Lurking in the shadows, Hollywood superstar Shia Labeouf.Įating all the bodies, actual, cannibal Shia Labeouf. Running for your life (From Shia Labeouf.) The song detailed a terrifying encounter with a blood-soaked cannibal Shia LaBeouf in the woods in the manner of in an early 1900s radio drama. On March 3rd, 2012, musician Rob Cantor, a member of the indie rock group Tally Hall, uploaded a song titled “Shia LaBeouf” to his SoundCloud page named after the American actor. The song inspired several photoshopped images and animated GIFs of LeBeouf after it began circulating on the microblogging site Tumblr in April 2012. Cannibal, song, tumblr, shia labeouf, tally hall, shia lebouf, #1 entry of may 2012, weird memes of 2012, fan theory, soundclown, rob cantor, sarvel, democratic underground, generic brad, rob loweĪctual Cannibal Shia LaBeouf is a comedy song portraying the actor Shia LaBeouf as a cannibal.
