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!)
CHUG JUG WITH YOU LYRICS SONG FULL
The song contains the same lyrics as CM Skits' earlier parody but adds additional lyrics around them to make a full song. On December 18th, Leviathan uploaded the song to YouTube (shown below) garnering over 1.8 million views in a comparable span of time. If the songs that become viral on TikTok are really a result of the internet's global id, then the music industry will never be able to monetize it.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. That's an optimistic outlook, and one I hope is true.
YourLocalLibrary says that the way that these two ironic modes are canceling each other out shows that the internet at large is beginning to move away from a culture of calling things cringey or making fun of sincerity. But there's a second layer of irony in not putting your enjoyment of something behind a wall of ironic detachment and just liking something even if it is a little bit embarrassing, using the song as a way to make fun of that kind of ironic detachment where you can't like anything unless you're doing a bit. There's a kneejerk reaction to like the song as a way of saying that it sucks-essentially, to like it ironically. One TikToker who goes by YourLocalLibrary said that in their estimation, people are enjoying the song on two levels of irony. It's about being so endeared by this person's creativity that you love it despite of, or because of, it's flaws.
What's remarkable about the response to "Chug Jug With You" on TikTok is that it's not about making fun of the person behind the song, who most users believe to be an actual child. Changing the lyrics to be about Fortnite does not diminish that. I listened to that song every day of my life in the year in 2008 when it was released, and it's still a bop now. Part of it has to do with the fact that "American Boy" by Estelle is a stone cold banger.
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