Somebody's Watching Me was released in 1984 by Rockwell, the stage name of Kennedy Gordy, and features Michael Jackson singing the chorus hook. It became a lasting pop culture shorthand for paranoia, and decades later the song exploded again through memes and TikTok edits that pair the line with suspicious or creepy scenarios. Much like the hello darkness my old friend meme, it survives because one vocal line tells the whole story. An evil laugh sometimes gets layered under it in horror-themed edits for extra menace.