The song in question, of course, is none other than “Chug Jug With You.” If you haven’t heard it yet, we’re sorry for getting it stuck in your head. By now, most have heard this infamous Fortnite parody that, despite being sung by a squeaker, is an incredibly catchy earworm. Following the viral popularity of the song in February 2021, memes describing the events that occurred in Tomato Town as horrific and tragic gained popularity online.T just 13 years old, YouTuber Leviathan uploaded a parody song to his channel in 2018 featuring Estelle’s Grammy-nominated “American Boy.” For years, it sat in relative obscurity before exploding this year and giving life to a multitude of meme formats and viral trends. Tomato Town Massacre refers to a series of memes referencing a lyric from "Chug Jug With You" in which its author Leviathan sings about scoring ten kills in Tomato Town. As of February 10th, 2021, these are the two highest-viewed videos using the sound. On February 6th, posted a Fortnite parody video set to the sound, garnering over 5.8 million views in 4 days (shown below, right). On the same day, uploaded a screen recording to TikTok showing a comment string consisting of all the lyrics to "Chug Jug With You" in time with the song, garnering over 2.8 million views in 9 days (shown below, left). In the description they write, "made this one night after hearing this song and having a prophet like vision about it."Ī one-hour long version of the video was uploaded to YouTube on that day by doidinho da silva br, garnering over 72,000 views in the same span of time (shown below, right). On February 1st, Vasqueezy posted a lyric video for the song set to various images of Morgana from the Shin Megami Tensei video game series to YouTube, garnering over 7,000 views in a week (shown below, left). The original sound for the video, titled, "Chug jug with you," quickly grew in popularity, with over 40,000 videos attached to it in just over 2 weeks. On January 24th, 2021, uploaded an animated video to TikTok set to the song of a man walking through a large crowd which disperses as he approaches, captioned, "literally nobody: Fortnite kids irl:" garnering over 500,000 views in 2 weeks (shown below). Shortly after it was uploaded, 10 seconds of the video (from 00:08 to 00:18) were claimed by UMG, leaving a small gap in the YouTube upload. Many commenters make note of the song as being surprisingly good and shower it in positive praise both ironic and not (examples shown below). Listeners found the song comedic for its Fortnite-themed lyrics, the catchy beat, and the fact that the song is clearly sung by a young boy. You can take me to Moisty Mire but not Loot Lake Take me to your Xbox to play Fortnite today I revived him now we’re heading southbound Yeah, Fortnite, we 'bout get down (get down!) The song contains the same lyrics as CM Skits' earlier parody but adds additional lyrics around them to make a full song, which also subsequently became a copypasta over the following years. On December 18th, Leviathan uploaded the song to YouTube (shown below) garnering over 1.8 million views in a comparable span of time. On November 10th, 2018, Leviathan uploaded a parody of Estelle and Kanye West's "American Boy," inspired by CM SKITS' video, to SoundCloud, titled, "Chug Jug With You." The track gained over 350,000 plays and 1,400 likes in 2 years.
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