No More Saying Cuss Words!

About

No More Saying Cuss Words! refers to a viral video of a child pleading with viewers to stop saying cuss words, calling it "inappropriate and violent" and suggesting people who cuss might go to jail. The video is from an unknown source and was uploaded to YouTube in March 2020. The video inspired numerous memes over the course of the year based on the audio and became notably popularized on TikTok that December in lip-dubs.

Origin

The original source of the video is unconfirmed. The earliest upload of the video was posted to YouTube^[1] by mem on March 31st, 2020, gaining over 346,000 views in a year and a half (shown below). In the video, a young boy pleads with viewers to stop saying cuss words, citing reasons such as cussing being "inappropriate" and "violent" and suggesting it is illegal. The kid describes how in jail all you eat is broccoli and other vegetables, insisting he's okay with broccoli but others might not be. He ends the video by saying, "I better warn my school about that."

"No. More. Saying. Cuss words! It. Is. Not. Good. I'm putting a video on YouTube about no more saying cuss words. No more saying cuss words guys! It's inappropriate and violent! If you say a cuss word then you're like, going to jail, and you're like, and when you go to jail, I- ba- when you go to jail, if you say, if you say a cuss word you go to jail and if you go to jail cause you said a cuss word, then… You're only gonna eat BROCCOLI and OTHER VEGETABLES for your WHOLE LIFE. You don't want to eat vegetables. Sometimes people like eating sweets but… I eat broccoli. So, I'm okay with broccoli but I do not want to go to jail. You can not go to jail. And saying cuss words is ILLEGAL. They are now gonna make a law about that. It is illegal, it is inappropriate, it is really violent. I better warn my school about that."

Spread

The video inspired edits over the course of the year, many editing the audio or applying it to other contexts. One of the earliest edits is a skit posted by YouTuber^[3] TAFFYMARZI on May 18th, 2020, gaining over 90,000 views in a year and a half. The video was reuploaded by YouTuber^[2] Atomic QBomb on May 25th, 2020, gaining over 5.4 million views in a year and a half. On September 1st, the audio was remixed and uploaded by YouTuber^[4] Yevgen4000, gaining over 363,000 views in just over a year (shown below).

On September 20th, YouTuber^[5] Smmix1.0 posted a YouTube Poop edit of the video where it sounds like the child encourages saying cuss words, gaining over 897,000 views in just over a year (shown below).

TikTok Sound and Trend

On December 19th, 2020, TikToker^[6] @johnmemez reuploaded the video, gaining over 16 million views in a year. The original sound for the video became popularized in lip-dubs over the course of the next year, inspiring over 161,000 videos by December 2021. The two highest engagement TikTok uploads^[7][8] are a lip-dub by @angryreactions posted December 28th, 2020, gaining over 11 million views in a year (shown below, left) and an animated version of the meme by @nutshellanimations posted March 12th, 2021, gaining over 18.4 million views in nine months (shown below, right).

Continued Spread

On February 2nd, 2021, YouTuber Aurk posted a video featuring a Mario impersonator reading the dialogue from the video, gaining over 2.5 million views in 10 months (shown below).

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