Publication shows world leaders walking to the sound of the hit “Capybara”, created by Russian and who viralized in 2023
France President Emmanuel Macron (Renaissance, Centro) posted an Instagram video on Wednesday (18.Jun.2025) of the G7 leaders summit with the Russian music “Capybara”, which has viralized in the last 2 years at Tiktok. The meeting took place on June 16 and 17 in Kananaskis, Canada.
The video shows the world leaders walking one by one for the official photo of the summit with the music playing. Among them, it is possible to see the president (PT). The G7 is made up of Germany, Canada, the United States, France, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom – alien of the EU (European Union), which participates in meetings. Brazil was one of the countries invited to participate in the summit in Canada, as did South Africa, Australia, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, India, Mexico and Ukraine.
The song “Capybara” was made up of a young Russian game developer released in 2022. Alexey Pluzhnikov, 23, said he composed music, which comicly repeat the name of the animal, during a night of insomnia where he was developing a game whose main character was precisely a capybara.
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In 2023 the music went viral on social networks like Tiktok, circulating as a soundtrack for young audience videos. According to a report from Music helped the capybara become a pop phenomenon in 2024 through many countries of the world: in Japan, there are thematic coffees where it is possible to interact with animals; In Brazil, in addition to the presence on the banks of the Pinheiros River, in São Paulo, the capybaras print t -shirts and became pastel format; In the United States, a coffee is decorated with plush capybaras, and in London you can visit a capybaras installation in Camden, one of the city’s most famous markets.
