The Chain Steel Ball Run Trend
Credits on mute, Fleetwood Mac on top.
Fans mute the new Steel Ball Run ending and play Fleetwood Mac's The Chain over the same credits.
By RTTA TeamLast updated 2026-09-29
What it is
The Chain Steel Ball Run trend is a fan ending swap. People take the episode 2 credits from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run, mute Yuki Chiba, and play Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain" over the same pictures.
The official song is "Shinukaikiruka" (Dead or Alive). It arrived with episode 2 on September 25, 2026, when Netflix started the weekly run for stages 2 and 3. The opening on that run is "SPIN" by Kroi. The ending is the track getting replaced.
Villas posted "Steel Ball Run ending but it's The Chain by Fleetwood Mac" at 4:01 a.m. Pacific that morning. Kroey followed at 10:13 a.m. with "Steel Ball Run Ending but its actually good | Fleetwood Mac The Chain." By September 29 that upload was around 388,000 views. The same afternoon, ExtraQuestionableContent stacked two mixes in one video, with chapters at 0:00 and 1:34, and wrote that Dr. Luke should be off the song.
"The Chain" was already a common guess. Posts on r/StardustCrusaders and MyAnimeList had named Fleetwood Mac for the 1890 horse race, and America's "A Horse With No Name" came up beside it. Older JoJo endings were licensed songs from outside Japan, including "Roundabout" by Yes and "Walk Like an Egyptian" by The Bangles.
Episode 2 used an original song instead. The credits list Yuki Chiba as lyricist and Lukasz Gottwald, who records as Dr. Luke, as producer. On September 27, What's on Netflix wrote that replies on unrelated Netflix posts had flipped to "change the outro," with the producer credit as the second complaint. Netflix streams the series. Warner Bros.
Japan and the production committee choose the theme.
The audio cue is the bass line in the back half of "The Chain," the 1977 Fleetwood Mac song from Rumours. Keep the edit about as long as the credits. Kroey's runs 1:31. One angle is a single swap. The other is ExtraQuestionableContent's two-pass upload. Clips labeled "Pony" or "Can't Stop" use the same ending pictures with a different song, so they are a separate search.
Creator Search Insights showed about 4.12 million searches for "the chain steel ball run trend" on September 29, four days after episode 2. Weekly episodes are still coming, which is why the recuts are fresh. Older fan videos also set "The Chain" to Steel Ball Run art, years before this ending existed. If the pictures are the 2026 credits, you are in the current wave.
How to try it
Mute Yuki Chiba and keep the episode 2 ending pictures. The non-credit upload of "Shinukaikiruka" runs about a minute and a half, the same length as the edits that are getting views.
Lay Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain" under that picture. Line the late bass figure up with a hard frame, a horse cut or the title card. For the two-mix version, ExtraQuestionableContent splits attempts at 0:00 and 1:34.
Title it so the song is obvious: "Steel Ball Run ending but it's The Chain." Search pack: #SteelBallRun #TheChain #FleetwoodMac #JJBA #SBR, plus the phrase "the chain steel ball run trend." Leave unrelated Netflix posts alone, and skip piling onto Yuki Chiba. Warner Bros. Japan can change the file. A reply thread cannot.
The Chain Steel Ball Run Trend — YouTube clip
Kroey's September 25 recut, the version that passed 388,000 views.
The Chain Steel Ball Run Trend — YouTube clip
Villas posted the earliest same-day upload, 4:01 a.m. Pacific on September 25.
The Chain Steel Ball Run Trend — YouTube clip
ExtraQuestionableContent plays two mixes, chaptered at 0:00 and 1:34.
The Chain Steel Ball Run Trend — YouTube clip
KAITO's Short, titled Steel Ball Run Ending X Fleetwood Mac - The Chain.
Common questions
- What is the Chain Steel Ball Run trend?
- Editors mute the new Steel Ball Run ending and play Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain" over the episode 2 credits. The search phrase is "the chain steel ball run trend."
- What is the official Steel Ball Run ending?
- "Shinukaikiruka" (Dead or Alive) by Yuki Chiba, first heard on episode 2 on September 25, 2026. The opening for that weekly run is a different song, "SPIN" by Kroi.
- When did The Chain edits start?
- The same morning as the episode. Villas uploaded one at 4:01 a.m. Pacific on September 25. Kroey's version, posted at 10:13 a.m. that day, was around 388,000 views by September 29.
- Why are people replacing the ending?
- Past JoJo endings were often licensed Western tracks, and "The Chain" was already a fan guess for the horse-race story. The new song's credits also list producer Lukasz Gottwald, known as Dr. Luke, which is the other complaint in the comments.
- Can Netflix change the song if people ask?
- Netflix distributes Steel Ball Run. Warner Bros. Japan and the production committee handle the theme. Pasting the edit under unrelated Netflix posts does not swap the file.