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We Are Not Here To Defeat the Enemy, continued We Are Not Here To Listen To Your [Unintelligible], refers to a satirical hip-hop and meme rap beat with loud, overblown 808s and a robot-alien voice saying, "We are not here to defeat the enemy," before its overpowered by the other noises. The song became a viral TikTok sound in JuggTok meme circles in April and May 2025. The original beat came from a tweet shared by Twitter / X user @selasiii, who said, "Tears rolling down my face, bro. The 808 is having a psychotic breakdown."

Origin

On April 8th, 2025, X^[1] user @selasiii tweeted, "Tears rolling down my face, bro. The 808 is having a psychotic breakdown," attaching a screen recording of a track they made in Ableton Live. The song started with a robot or alien voice saying, "We are not here to defeat the enemy. We are not here to listen to your [unintelligible]." The voice is drowned out by loud 808 sounds and the Plug sound effect. In a month, the tweet received over 225,100 views and 9,900 likes (shown below).

tears rolling down my face bro the 808 is having a psychotic breakdown pic.twitter.com/58gBVXFRE0

— selasi (@selasiii) April 8, 2025

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Later on April 8th, 2025, TikToker^[2] @realplexxx reposted the abovementioned tweet, writing in the description, "I'm uploading this [because] I might wanna use the sound some day." In a month, the TikTok gained over 125,900 likes (shown below).

In the following weeks, many people used the abovementioned video's TikTok sound.^[3] For instance, on April 9th, TikToker^[4] @b1grats posted a photo of the manga Plus-Sized Elf on a book shelf, captioned, "Peak spotted in the wild." The slideshow used the sound and gained over 56,000 likes in a month.

On April 13th, 2025, TikToker^[5] @beau2s used the sound, showing his friends sticking their faces against a trampoline net, captioned, "Never taking my bros to the trampoline park ever again." Over one month, the video received roughly 104,000 likes (shown below).

On April 14th, TikToker^[6] @shad0wsne4k posted a cat video, captioned, "Freaky ahh cats," receiving 129,600 likes in a month (shown below).

Viral posts with the sound continued heading into late April and early May 2025. The sound was used for other trends on the app.

For instance, on April 27th, 2025, TikToker^[7] @_xst4rz posted a video about the Black LED Lights meme, which used the sound, gaining over 751,600 likes in 12 days (shown below).

By May 9th, the trend's original TikTok sound^[3] had amassed over 27,800 posts. The memes from TikTok started to get reposted to X^[8] around the same time.

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