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They Jumped My Ass, also known as Vegeta Tweeting, is a fanmade video of Dragon Ball character Vegeta opening the X / Twitter app and tweeting, "They jumped my ass," while he's on the ground after he was defeated by an enemy. The clip uses a scene from the 2020 Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot video game, which became a viral reaction video in April 2023. The meme format also spawned redraws and parodies on social media.

Origin

On April 12th, 2023, YouTube^[1] user @ayikamis posted the earliest viral mention of the edited video from the Goku vs. Vegeta boss fight in the Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot video game, which shows Vegeta opening his X account to tweet, "They jumped my ass," after he was defeated. The tweet (seen below) received over 1.2 million views and 47,000 in a year.

The clip was created by YouTube^[2] user @ic3_115 on March 25th, 2023, in a video titled "The Saiyan Saga Is PEAK Dragon Ball," which received roughly 820 views and 80 likes in a year.

Spread

Vegeta's tweeting meme became a viral reaction video on X over the next year, mainly used by netizens mocking online discussions. For example, on July 15th, 2023, X^[3] user @Ozzmaniac used the Vegeta jumped meme as a reaction to a Super Smash Brothers_ championship footage (seen below), amassing more than 3,300 views and 46 likes in a year.

On November 2nd, 2024, X^[4] user @Heartbreak_Juan posted a redraw of the Vegeta tweeting meme with an illustration of the Dandadan character Aira (seen below) lying on the ground tweeting. The post amassed over 40,000 likes and 2,900 reposts in a day.

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