TikTok roasts Lil Pump for expecting people in Tokyo to swarm him: 'No one knew him'...

Rapper Lil Pump has become the butt of internet jokes after a video surfaced of crowds walking indifferently past him in Japan.

Footage of the 22-year-old rapper, who was born Gazzy García and rose to fame in 2017 with the multi-platinum single "Gucci Gang," went viral across social media platforms on Monday. The clip racked up 2 million views on TikTok, 7 million views on Twitter and thousands of reactions on Reddit's "Sad Cringe" forum.

The clip showed Lil Pump standing in the middle of a crowded street and looking perplexed as no one stopped for a photo or an autograph. The rapper appeared to look around expectantly, then finally throw up his hands and shrug at the uninterested passersby.

The footage prompted a wave of mirth online, as viewers derided the artist's baffled reaction.

"I love it when famous people don't get recognized and you can clearly see it hurts their ego," said a commenter on TikTok.

"He could stand on my doorstep with a T-shirt saying Lil Pump and I wouldn't know who he was," said another comment dragging the artist on Twitter.

"The American exceptionalism here is astonishing," said a user who circulated the clip on Reddit.

Lil Pump appeared to respond to the viral video by posting another clip on Twitter, which showed a handful of fans taking pictures with him on the same street.

"Japan I love y'all, full clip on my page," he said.

The rapper previously stirred controversy online when he endorsed Donald Trump for president in 2020, even appearing at a pre-election rally in which the former president accidentally introduced him as "Little Pimp." Undeterred by the slip-up, Lil Pump urged the crowd to vote for Trump and not to vote for "sleepy Joe" (Biden).

His support for Trump drew disgust from a range of other celebrities, including supermodel Bella Hadid, who publicly called Lil Pump "irresponsible" and a "loser."

In February 2018, Lil Pump was arrested for firing a gun inside his San Fernando Valley, California apartment. He broke probation in August of that year when he was arrested for driving without a license, resulting in a prison sentence. The rapper was later arrested for disorderly conduct at a Miami airport in December 2018.

In December 2020, he was banned from JetBlue after refusing to wear a mask on a flight from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Los Angeles. And in November 2021, the IRS filed a lien on his Miami mansion for $1.6 million in unpaid taxes.