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Drew Ate Donuts

Drew Ate Donuts

Part of a series on Everybody Hates Chris. [View Related Entries]

Updated Sep 07, 2025 at 12:02AM EDT by Autumn Able.

Added Sep 02, 2025 at 03:49PM EDT by yourdon5.

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About

"Drew Ate Donuts" is a meme that originated from the television show Everybody Hates Chris, developing after the earlier viral clip "My Mother Ate Fries". It functions as a short, repeatable line that became popular as an editing trend on TikTok. Users remix it by speeding it up, slowing it down, or inserting it into compilations. Its popularity comes from the simplicity of the phrase combined with exaggerated editing, making it well-suited to meme culture. It also gained additional attention due to an incidental link to a real-world doughnut shop, which further contributed to its spread.

Origin

On September 1st, 2025, TikTok user Janusz Olesiak Olesiak uploaded a compilation of sped-up and slowed-down versions of the "Drew Ate Donuts" clip, a line that originally appeared in season 4, episode 12 of Everybody Hates Chris. The video received around 40,000 views by September 9th, 2025.

@januszolesiakolesiak

drew ate donuts. okay? We know this, it is not up for debate, it is an event lodged into reality like a thumbtack on a bulletin board. when we say "drew ate donuts," we are committing ourselves to a truth about the past, a record of behaviour that now defines a part of drew, whether he likes it or not. The phrase itself is simple, plain, but simplicity hides danger. because if drew ate donuts once, then the door is open, the pattern is invited. what does one donut lead to? Another donut. what does another donut lead to? Habit, repetition, perhaps even addiction. and so the sentence "drew ate donuts" is not just a description of food consumption, it is the seed of narrative, the spark of speculation. In the show everybody hates chris, we notice that drew is not usually associated with donuts. his identity is not marked by powdered sugar or chocolate glaze. And yet, the absence of donuts in his televised character life makes this recorded act all the more striking. if drew, who rarely eats donuts on screen, has now eaten donuts off screen or in another context, are we forced to re-evaluate everything we thought we knew? Is the drew we knew still the same drew? or has the donut created a fracture, a timeline split, where donut eating drew begins to diverge from non donut eating drew? thus, "drew ate donuts" becomes more than just language, it becomes prophecy. And consider the implications of time. when we say "drew ate donuts," we know he ate them in the past. but the past is slippery, it is sticky like glaze on the fingers. How do we know that past behaviour does not leak into the present and ooze into the future? Today’s donut could be tomorrow’s dozen. today’s casual bite could be tomorrow’s ritual, a breakfast of inevitability. If we grant drew the action once, must we not prepare ourselves for the possibility, even the likelihood, of recurrence? To eat a donut is to acknowledge sweetness, and once sweetness is known, it is rarely forgotten. so when we meditate on "drew ate donuts," we are not just observing a mundane act of eating. We are peering into the architecture of choice, the slippery slope of desire, and the transformation of character. Donuts are never just donuts. they are symbols, circles without beginning or end, eternal loops of temptation. therefore, to say "drew ate donuts" is to say "drew has entered the circle." and the question remains: will he ever leave?

♬ original sound – Janusz Olesiak Olesiak 🇹🇲

A derivative upload, titled "Drew's Donut Stop," attracted roughly four times as many views, helping establish the line's meme potential.

Spread

The meme spread quickly on TikTok after its debut. On September 2nd, 2025, user gvnuz posted a video captioned "yall sleepin on drew ate donuts 🫩💔," which received over 70,000 likes. The success of this post solidified the phrase in broader meme culture, and edits began appearing across the platform.

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♬ DREW ATE DONUTS – ︎

Drew's Donut Stop

Soon after, users noticed a doughnut shop in Arnold, Missouri, coincidentally named Drew's Donut Stop. The real-world connection fuelled a second wave of memes linking the shop to the clip. By September 9th, 2025, one of these videos had received over 180,000 views.

@i_honestlydon.tknow1 Drew ate donuts #everybodyhateschris #tuff #mymotheratefries #fypviral #fyp ♬ original sound – Mymotheratefries


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