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Just Had This Calypso, It Is Fucking Minging is a viral video where a British kid gives a scathing review of a bottle of Paradise Punch Calypso lemonade, calling it "minging" and saying "suck yer dad" then throwing it onto the pavement and breaking it. The video was first uploaded to YouTube in April 2022 and gained viral spread through reposts on sites including TikTok, inspiring memes and becoming a prominent video to reference over the following months.

Origin

The earliest available upload of the video was posted by YouTuber^[1] DeQuantavious JR on April 20th, 2022, garnering over 14,500 views in four months (shown below).

I've just had this Calypso. It is fucking minging. Paradise Punch lemonade, it is fucking minging. Suck your dad. It's minging, it's fucking minging!

According to Urban Dictionary,^[2] "minging" is a Scottish slang word used to call something unsavory, "foul, smelly or nasty." The term spread to England from Scotland.

Spread

On April 23rd, 2022, Instagram^[3] user lilcasper.v2 reposted the video, garnering over 49,000 likes in four months. On May 10th, Twitter^[10] user @liminalfunnycat posted the video, writing, "this is the evil version of the happy with coke yippee german kid," garnering over 52,000 likes and 13,000 retweets three months. On May 11th, Twitter^[5] user @FloFluoro posted an edit of the clip referencing Disco Elysium, garnering over 20,000 likes and 8,000 retweets (shown below). On May 14th, YouTuber^[4] Storm Born reposted the original video, garnering over 34,000 views in three months. The Disco Elysium video was reposted by Instagram^[6] user ww1veteran on June 5th, gaining over 3,000 views and 600 likes in two months.

https://t.co/m5RrZrIYMO pic.twitter.com/3q21s2UUx3

— Flo P. (@FloFluoro) May 11, 2022

On June 8th, YouTuber^[7] Jimmy Here posted an "If You Laugh, You Leave" video taken from his stream. At the 20:25 minute mark, Jimmy and two others react to the Calypso video, almost causing them to laugh (shown below). The video gained over 1.4 million views in two months. An isolated clip of their reaction to the clip was uploaded to the Jimmy Here Shorts YouTube^[8] channel five days later, gaining over 11,000 views in three months. On July 14th, a repost of the Disco Elysium meme was posted to /r/DiscoElysium,^[11] garnering over 1,400 upvotes in a month.

On August 11th, TikToker^[9] @ya.boy.ducky posted a captioned edit of the video, adding a fade-in of the British cartoon character Perfect Peter to the video, suggesting the two have similar voices, garnering over 60,000 views in five days (shown below).

Various Examples

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7097399877101030699

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7131681858923810054

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7094346526562012422

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