The “Iris” meme, which has people sharing “what you were like in the ’90s” videos and photos to the soundtrack of the classic Goo Goo Dolls hit, has been used by multiple celebrities, but on Wednesday Backstreet Boys decided to use it for an April Fools’ Day joke.
The group posted video of themselves in the present day with the text, “Dad(s), what were you like in the 90s?” At this point, you’d expect videos and photos to follow showing Backstreet around 1996, when they started having their first success. But instead, the rest of the post is made up of photos of *NSYNC from around the same time period.
“Ain’t no lie,” they captioned the post. That, of course, is a line from *NSYNC’s song “Bye Bye Bye.”
Fans thought it was hysterical, jumping into the comments to write, “Genius,” “Diabolical” and “Oh, I needed that laugh.” Another wrote, “LOL I nearly sprayed my Red Bull through my nose.”
Of course, the members of *NSYNC and Backstreet are friends; any reports of their “feud” back in the day were exaggerated for press purposes.
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