Twenty One Pilots’ viral single “Drag Path” is now officially available on streaming platforms, along with a new music video for fans to watch and enjoy.
“Drag Path” first went viral in late 2025, amassing almost 100,000 posts under the official audio on TikTok. An edit of the white spotted pufferfish by user @am_.03_ on TikTok was one of the first to use the song and gained 11.1 million views.
The track was previously released with the Ohio duo’s “Breach: Digital Remains” special digital album, which came with exclusive access to “Drag Path” and a 50-page downloadable booklet that chronicled artifacts from the creation of “Breach.”
The new release of the song is slightly different from the original mix, to preserve it for those who bought the digital remains package.
“We have not wanted to release ‘Drag Path’ officially, because we want to respect those that purchased it back when the album was being released,” frontman Tyler Joseph said in a social media announcement. “What we’re going to do is, we’re going to release it with a slightly different edit to it, so that those who bought it have a more original version of it.” The new mix of “Drag Path” received some backlash, with several online users commenting that the “digital remains” version is better, criticizing that too much was cut from the original song.
“To be honest, the original was a masterpiece and I’m sad that half of it was removed and moved around in this version,” user @supercute_lizzard commented on the band’s Instagram post on the day of the song’s release. “That version felt like finding that … inspiration to move forward in life after facing darkness. This one feels choppy … I understand respecting fans who bought the original, but that’s the version that deserves a place on streaming… not the watered-down version.”
Nevertheless, many fans are excited about the release and are glad the song is finally on streaming platforms.
“My prayers have been answered,” musical artist Dylan commented on the announcement.
“Drag Path” came with a stop-motion music video created by animators Katrine Poulsen, Tobias Gundorff Boesen, Frederik Villumsen, and Christophe Peladan at The Animation Workshop, based at VIA University College in Denmark. It was originally made in 2010, as the dark fantasy short film “Out of a Forest,” in which a rabbit’s birthday party is interrupted by a wolf.
The music video has earned praise, particularly for its use of real art in a world saturated by Artificial Intelligence. Some viewers appreciated the recycled stop-motion and saw it as symbolic, representing the song’s cyclical message.
“The idea of using an overlooked pre-existing animation from fifteen years ago as the MV for a song about desperately leaving evidence of your existence and hoping someone will find you is genius,” user @Georgia-Higgins said in a YouTube comment under the music video.
Moving forward from the success of “Drag Path,” the band is releasing its movie “Twenty One Pilots: More Than We Ever Imagined” in IMAX theaters this Thursday. The film chronicles one of the band’s shows in Mexico City, with behind-the-scenes interviews from Joseph and drummer Josh Dun.
Despite the mixed reactions, it is clear that many fans are excited about the release of “Drag Path” and what lies ahead for Twenty One Pilots.
