People Are Pretending To “Program” Strangers IRL -- And It All Started With This One TikTok Creator

Computer, Turn X into Y or Computer Guy refers to a series of viral videos posted to TikTok by Julius Mondragon(user @okjuskiii) starting in Janurary 2026. The videos typically involve Mondragon approaching random people in Chicago and invoking his "computa" to perform various "programming" instructions aimed at the person, following a "command line" prompting the target to do or become something such as "‘Computa, make this girl have a smile on her face." The phrase has come to be widely used in content posted by other users on the TikTok platform, becoming a popular meme format.