About

It's Sodium Chloride refers to a series of YouTube video inspired by an edit of a scene from the Nickelodeon series The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. The video gained notoriety on YouTube due to its memorable quotes, including Big McThankies From McSpankies.

Origin

On October 25th, 2016, YouTuber Saucy Postal uploaded an edited version of a Jimmy Neutron scene from the episode "Men at Work", which gathered upwards of 3.15 million views and 5,900 comments over the next year (shown below). The video is divided into two parts. The first features the "Big McThankies From McSpankies" line that spawned that meme. The second half features the line, "It's sodium chloride." In both halves, the song "Notre Dame de L'oubli" plays as it zooms in on the character Skeet's face.

Spread

The moment itself did not start becoming a meme until late summer the following year. On August 27th, 2017, YouTuber BoxFanKlik uploaded a variation where the roles in the original video were reversed, gaining over 184,000 views (shown below).

As the video grew popular, the "Sodium Chloride" moment was remixed into various clips on YouTube. For example, a clip of the audio remixed into a Mr. Krabs Squeaky Boots Remix by Memyselfandpi 2 gained over 251,000 views (shown below, left). A remix uploaded by Brominium which put the scene's audio through a vocoder gained over 121,000 views (shown below, right).

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