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Chug Jug With You is a 2018 Fortnite themed parody song of Estelle's 2008 song "American Boy."^[1] The parody track is originally by YouTuber CM SKITS, but a remix inspired by the parody by YouTuber Leviathan went viral as an original sound on TikTok in early 2021, ultimately becoming more well-known. "Chug Jug With You's" lyrics are also sometimes used as a copypasta, referred to as the Number One Victory Royale Copypasta.

Origin

On September 16th, 2018, CM SKITS uploaded a video to YouTube^[7] titled, "Let’s play Fortnite!!!!" (shown below). In the video, a shirtless person dances over various Fortnite screenshots to a poorly sung parody of Estelle and Kanye West's 2008 song, "American Boy" featuring the lyrics: "Take me to your Xbox to play Fortnite today. You can take me to Moisty Mire, but not Loot Lake. I really love to chug jug with you, we can be pro Fortnite gamers." The video gained over 79,000 views in roughly 2 years.

The video was reposted a number of times to YouTube, gaining hundreds of thousands of additional views.^[8][9] The video was also shared on Instagram by private meme page le_meme_jesus, an account with over 200,000 followers.^[10]

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Leviathan Parody / Remix

On November 10th, 2018, Leviathan uploaded a parody of Estelle and Kanye West's "American Boy," inspired by CM SKITS' video, to SoundCloud,^[3] titled, "Chug Jug With You." The track gained over 350,000 plays and 1,400 likes in 2 years. On December 18th, Leviathan uploaded the song to YouTube^[2] (shown below) garnering over 1.8 million views in a comparable span of time.

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.^[11]

We got a number one Victory Royale
Yeah, Fortnite, we 'bout get down (get down!)
Ten kills on the board right now
Just wiped out Tomato Town
My friend just got downed
I revived him now we’re heading southbound
Now we’re in the Pleasant Park streets,
Look at the map, go to the marked sheet
Take me to your Xbox to play Fortnite today
You can take me to Moisty Mire but not Loot Lake
I really love to Chug Jug with you
We could be pro Fortnite gamers!

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. Many commenters make note of the song as being surprisingly good and shower it in positive praise both ironic and not (examples 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.

On January 24th, 2021, @roughanfeatherstone uploaded an animated video to TikTok^[4] 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). 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 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,^[5] garnering over 7,000 views in a week (shown below, left). In the description they write, "made this one night after hearing this song and having a prophet like vision about it."

A one-hour long version of the video was uploaded to YouTube^[6] on that day by doidinho da silva br, garnering over 72,000 views in the same span of time (shown below, right).

On the same day, @m1rv3lchampion 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).

On February 6th, @willywonkatiktok posted a Fortnite parody video set to the sound, garnering over 5.8 million views in 4 days (shown below, right). As of February 10th, 2021, these are the two highest-viewed videos using the sound.

Related Memes

Tomato Town Massacre

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. 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.

Patrick Bateman Listens to Music

Patrick Bateman Listens to Music refers to a series of edits based on a scene from the 2000 film American Psycho in which main character Patrick Bateman walks into his office in his headphones listening to "Walking on Sunshine." In the edits, various songs are edited in, with Bateman representing the Chad meme archetype.

In February 2021, the meme regained popularity following a viral TikTok by user gold.in.the.gutter in which Patrick Bateman listens to "Chug Jug With You" (shown below). The same idea was used by YouTuber pipsi a month prior.

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