The Big Stew

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Rssl @Rssl678 >Buy stew >Look inside >Batteries, smoke detectors, gasoline, neighbor, ex wife, pills 4:54 AM • Oct 26, 2024 311 Views ...

they don't know i need to stir the stew yes we do its literally all you post about tastes like pennies in here

jame @kloogans why the f--- did i think that was a good idea Jame's Wife Missing CH jame @kloogans - Oct 27 i've attempted to make a cheese from the big stew. behold the big cheese

jame @kloogans i've attempted to make a cheese from the big stew. behold the big cheese 1:59 AM Oct 27, 2024 395.3K Views ...

tate @50FirstTates throw him in the big stew JT @Jaberuski - Oct 26 What's an appropriate punishment when your 8 year old cracks your 75 inch screen? 6:41 PM - Oct 26, 2024 62.8K Views

jame @kloogans i was stirring the big stew and this little guy crawled out of it lol w--. i've named him dylan • 4:27 AM ⚫ Oct 26, 2024 200.3K Views

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About

The Big Stew refers to a comedy series of X / Twitter posts relaying the fictional story of a toxic backyard pit, usually depicted as a green-looking liquid, known by the name "the big stew." The posts, written by X user @kloogans, went viral on the platform in October 2024, inspiring memes and references over the following weeks.

Origin

On October 12th, 2024, X^[1] / Twitter user @kloogans made a humorous post about an area in their backyard called "Big Stew" where they supposedly dump old batteries, gas household chemicals and Dr. Pepper soft drinks, stirring it once per month. The post (shown below) received over 7.2 million views 7,000 reposts and 174,000 likes in two weeks.

jame @kloogans i have an area in my backyard i call "the big stew" it's a pit i dug where i dump old batteries, gas, household chemicals, and dr pepper. i stir it once a month • • 7:45 PM Oct 12, 2024 7.2M Views

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On October 13th, 2024, in the same thread, @kloogans posted a photoshopped image of a glowing green pit, with the ripple effect, as if caused by strong radiation, visible over the image. The post (shown below), captioned with an update that @kloogans dumped over 350 smoke detectors into the "big stew" received over 1,000 reposts and 36,000 likes on X^[2] in two weeks.

... jame @kloogans i threw like 350 smoke detectors in there the other day lol. the air tastes like pennies 1:13 AM - Oct 13, 2024 1.1M Views

On October 17th, Redditor Crystal_Carmel posted a screenshot of the thread in the /r/196^[7] subreddit, where it garnered over 590 upvotes in one week.

In the following weeks, @kloogans continued to develop the story of "the big stew" on X. For example, on October 22nd, 2024, @kloogans posted^[3] an updated "photograph" of the pit with a car dumped into it and a bloodstain visible on the wall of the house above it.

On October 23rd, @kloogans^[4] posted a hospital photograph, reporting that "doctors are wearing stupid looking rubber suits," with the post gaining over 830 reposts and 17,000 likes in one day. On October 24th, @kloogans posted a photograph of himself escaping from the hospital, commenting, "I need to stir the big stew. the stew must be stirred." The post (shown below) received over 2,200 reposts and 38,000 likes on X^[5] in one day.

" jame @kloogans they can't keep me here. i need to stir the big stew. the stew must be stirred

In October 2024, various posts and memes referencing the story were circulated on X. For example, on October 16th, 2024, X^[6] user @m4cden posted a speech bubbling meme featuring the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia character Charlie Kelly that received over 4,600 reposts and 72,000 likes in eight days (shown below).