How Jacob Wysocki’s ‘You Are a Regular Guy’ rant took over the internet

Nobody expected Jacob Wysocki’s “You Are a Regular Guy” rant from Dropout’s comedy improv show Make Some Noise to go viral, least of all Wysocki himself.

The clip comes from Make Some Noise season 4, episode 4, “Zunk, Junk, and Dunk,” which premiered on Dropout.tv on Nov. 24, 2025. Hosted by Sam Reich, the game show gives three comedians various prompts, and they take turns improvising monologues, scenes, and quips in response. In one memorable segment, Wysocki and co-contestants Zac Oyama and Devin Field take turns trying to play a Renaissance-era Hümmelchen bagpipe. Wysocki shines as the best musician of the bunch, absolutely shredding those pipes.

One of the episode’s final prompts is, “These Daily Affirmations are a Bit Off.” All three deliver some genuinely unsettling and hilarious examples, but Wysocki steals the episode with a frenetic, loud rant with a refrain of “You are a regular guy!”

“Wow!” host Sam Reich says in response. “I found that one strangely inspiring.”

The internet at large agrees. In the weeks that followed, the bit blew up on TikTok, racking up hundreds of thousands of views and likes. There have been remixes, guitar riffs, and entire songs written about it. Australian singer Montaigne turned the rant into an original song over the course of a two-and-a-half-hour livestream in early December.

One real highlight amid the noise is a TikTok video with clips from Heated Rivalry showing Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) doing regular guy things like entering a space or a room, making a transaction, answering the phone, sleeping, waking up, etc.

In a sidebar during an interview discussing Gladlands, the new actual-play Dimension 20 series hosted by Brennan Lee Mulligan, Wysocki told Polygon what prompted the Make Some Noise affirmation — and his surprise at seeing it explode on the internet in the months since.

“I was just riffing hard, man,” he said. “Look, dude, if you give me a couple bucks, you give me a prompt, I riff hard. That’s just how it works. Then I go home and I smoke a joint.”

Whether he’s playing a Dimension 20 character in a post-apocalyptic wasteland or reacting in real time to an unexpected prompt, Wysocki said the moments that land come from how much he’s listening to the people around him. His comedy, he explained, lives in the space between performers as he catches the rhythm of the room, responds honestly, and trusts that everyone else will carry the bit forward with him.

“Every once in a while, you just find a slipstream that other people are riding,” he said. “And I just found that slipstream.”

“That’s your magic,” added Gladlands costar Oscar Montoya. “You just resonate with everything and everybody. And I think it comes from a place of absolute honesty that people just grab onto.”

Where exactly did that Make Some Noise affirmation come from? Was it truly just a riff? The answer is complicated.

“I have had to tell myself multiple times in my life that I’m a regular guy,” Wysocki said. “‘Just get in there,’ you know? It always comes from a place of honesty. All I had was a prompt, and then all of a sudden there’s an Instagram account that posts it every day.”

The Instagram account youarearegularguy.daily does indeed post Wysocki’s affirmations daily, and is closing in on 10,000 followers. “It’s incredible,” Wysocki said. “I’m really proud to be taking up that water in the data centers. And I think that’s really important.”

For now, Wysocki fans can watch the comedian in action in Dimension 20: Gladlands, where he plays the “snorlaxian” and “totorian” giant Kokomo, part of a crew tasked with delivering thank-you letters to blood donors in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. New episodes air on Thursdays on Dropout.tv and on Dropout’s subscription YouTube Channel. The first episode is streaming free on YouTube. New episodes of Make Some Noise air every Monday, and free episodes of that show are on YouTube as well.