About

Bomboclat Wallahi refers to a viral video and skit by actor and comedian Jacob Berger in which he portrays an NYPD officer talking to a Palestinian man working at a Caribbean King food cart and utters the term in exasperation when learning the man's ethnicity. The video became the source of memes and a catchphrase in the spring of 2026, which combines the slang terms "bomboclat," an expletive in Jamaican Patois popularized online during the 2020s, and "wallahi," an Arabic phrase meant to invoke the name of Allah that saw an increase in ironic use in the 2020s.

In April and May 2026, the Bomboclat Wallahi segment of the comedy skit by Berger trended online as an exploitable source of brainrot memes that heavily edited the original, adding laser eyes and other absurd elements, particularly on TikTok. The meme is similar to other heavily edited brainrot clips and memes that circulated the platform at the time, such as Jamaican Me Dinner Mom.

Origin

Slang

Per Dictionary.com,^[1] the term "Bomboclat" came into use in 1956, with the term having origins in West Africa and England:

Bombo (or bumba) likely comes from West African words like the Fante bumbo, referring to the vulva but likely similar to the English bum, or “butt.” Clot (or claat) is cloth, in keeping with Jamaican English, which often drops a TH sound for a hard T (e.g., fit instead of fifth).

Together, then, bumboclaat is literally the cloth for the nether regions — either a menstrual cloth (rather than disposable pads) or a cloth for wiping your butt (in the days before widespread toilet paper). Bumbaclot has become a common rendering of the term in the Jamaican diaspora, such as in South London.

The term was later popularized on the internet starting in 2019, eventually deviating from its original context and use and being appropriated as a general nonsense term or expletive.

Similarly, Wallahi (والله) is an Arabic term roughly translating to "by God!" According to Noor Path Academy^[2], "Wallahi" is used to "…elevate[s] a simple statement into a covenant where the speaker invokes the name of Allah… as the ultimate witness to their truthfulness." Though a serious statement in the Muslim faith, it has recently become popularized as a general slang term, largely through the use of irony, to express shock or emphasis.

Jacob Berger "Bomboclat Wallahi" Skit

Sometime in September 2025, Berger uploaded a sketch in which he impersonates an NYPD officer buying Jamaican food and using the phrase "Bomboclat Wallahi" in exasperation upon learning that the food vendor is Palestinian. The video spread rapidly across the platform, gaining millions of views before his TikTok account was suspended.

The video was then uploaded to Berger's YouTube^[9] channel on November 15th, 2025, under the title "When you try Halal Jamaican food bomboclaaaaattt wallahiii," garnering over 3.3 million views, 89,000 likes and 3,750 comments in six months.

The video continually went viral on TikTok through various reuploads, which commonly amassed millions of views. On November 13th, 2025, TikTok^[3] user @rio21343 reuploaded the sketch, receiving over 12.4 million views and 2.1 million likes in about six months.

On December 14th, 2025, Berger uploaded the sketch to the @jacobbergeractor Instagram^[4] page. The video received over 2.3 million likes in about five months on Instagram alone.

Spread

Clips and reuploads of the Bomboclat Wallahi sketch continued to spread across various social media platforms in the following months, with "Bomboclat Wallahi" gaining traction as a catchphrase and slang term, as well as memetic usage, in the first half of 2026.

On April 3rd, 2026, TikTok^[5] user @jimmyclips52 uploaded the "Bomboclat Wallahi" clip, which received over 2.4 million views and 328,600 likes in a bit over a month.

On April 12th, Berger addressed the virality of the video, posting an edit to his Facebook^[6] page and writing, "Bombaclat wallahi I never expected this video to become a legendary internet meme😂😂these edits I randomly find be cracking me up." The post received over 10,000 likes in about one month.

The same edit was posted to his Instagram^[7] account on April 19th, 2026, receiving over 1.3 million likes in about three weeks.

On April 21st, 2026, Berger uploaded a follow-up sketch to his new TikTok^[8] account, @JacobBerger718. The video received over 3.8 million views and 504,500 likes in a bit over three weeks.

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