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There Are Consequences To Saying The N-word is a viral lip-dub of Kratos from God of War telling the boy character Atreus that "there are consequences to saying the n-word," to which Atreus replies, "Why? How do you know? How do you know?" After the video was uploaded to TikTok in late 2022, it received viral usage as a sound in other memes and skits.

Origin

In Part 20 of the video game God of War 4, the characters Kratos and Atreus are in a cave when Atreus kills a man without Kratos' permission. After going back and forth about the ethics of non-survival killing, Kratos shakes Atreus and says, "There are consequences to killing a God," to which Atreus says, "Why? How do you know? How do you know?" (YouTube upload shown below).

On December 6th, 2022, TikToker^[1] _breaking_bad_1 posted a video that lip-dubbed over the Kratos and Atreus scene, instead making Kratos say, "There are consequences to saying the n-word." Over the course of one week, the video received roughly 10.6 million plays and 1.7 million likes (shown below).

Spread

Going into mid-December 2022, multiple TikTokers used _breaking_bad_1's sound^[2] for their own videos. For instance, one of the first was TikToker^[3] saulbestman on December 6th, 2022, who made a misheard song lyric speech bubble using the audio, earning roughly 422,700 plays and 36,000 likes in one week (shown below, left). On December 8th, 2022, TikToker^[4] icyboi.mp4 used the sound to make a joke about PewDiePie and his n-word controversy. The video received roughly 5.3 million plays and 978,900 likes in five days (shown below, right).

On December 11th, 2022, YouTuber^[5] RenzGaming27 posted a video that used the Kratos audio, gaining roughly 46,100 views in two days (shown below). Others like Instagram^[6] user large.trap made similar videos around the same time.

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