Viral video from Bavaria: from Biden to Putin – Ingolstadt imitates the president and millions are watching
Created: 2022-10-27 09:33
By: Felix Herz
From Trump to Putin – on TikTok, an Ingolstadt resident imitates the gait of famous presidents.
With a video he has now gone viral.
© Screenshot TikTok / leonhardsberger
In his TikTok videos, an Ingolstadt resident imitates the gait of presidents.
One of them has now gone viral – and made the man famous.
Ingolstadt – His video is currently making millions of people around the world laugh.
Stefan Leonhardsberger from Ingolstadt is active on TikTok and uses the platform to distribute his short, funny videos.
He has been successful with this for a long time, many clips have tens of thousands of views.
But one of them went really viral and has now been viewed well over six million times.
"Walk like a President": Ingolstadt resident with viral video of presidents
Leonhardsberger has various comedy videos on his TikTok channel, but imitations of certain gaits are his trademark.
In one video he walks like different rock star types, in another like different animals.
But it was his imitation of presidents that made Stefan Leonhardsberger, as he is called in real life, famous.
Several months ago, he posted the clip, in which he exaggeratedly mimics the gait of various presidents, on TikTok.
It is called "Walk like a President".
The best-known statesmen are there: former ones like Trump and Obama and current ones like Biden, Erdogan and Putin.
And then it suddenly happened very quickly.
Within a few weeks, millions of people around the world watched Stefan Leonhardsberger imitate presidents.
As of Wednesday, October 26, 6.6 million people have viewed the video on TikTok.
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And not only via TikTok did the presidential video spread like wildfire: it was also shared diligently on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
The final audience figures are so difficult to determine, but it can be assumed that at least ten million people have already seen the clip.
A great success for Leonhardsberger, who shoots the videos in his current hometown of Ingolstadt.
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The 37-year-old is originally from Austria and is an actor, singer and cabaret artist.
The social media comedy arose out of necessity in times of lockdown, he tells
augsburger-allgemeine.de
.
He is pleased with the success of the video and wants to continue to make people laugh with short clips.
He definitely did that with his “Walk Like a President” video.
(fhz)
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