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You Got a Charger? also known as You Got a Charger? My Phone Dead, refers to a scene in the 2020 film Body Cam in which a Black male character, Aaron, played by Altonio Jackson, asks a store clerk if he has a charger for his phone. The scene became an exploitable video element in a series of brainrot edits on TikTok in November 2025, largely due to TikToker Cookie King's memetic use of the clip, reminiscent of other trends like Ali, You're a Nice Guy and Johnnie Walker in the War Room With Tristan Tate, among others. The "You Got a Charger?" clip was first used in memes on TikTok in April 2025, though, and later spread to Instagram Reels that year.

Origin

On May 18th, 2020, the film Body Cam was released on Tubi.^[2] In one scene, a character named Aaron, played by Altonio Jackson, walks into a convenience store and says to the clerk, "Sup, bro, you a charger? My phone dead."^[3]

On April 28th, 2025, TikToker^[1] @cardy561 shared a video edit meme tagged with a Hood Irony hashtag, which used the aforementioned scene, showing a crudely added greenscreen of cockroaches crawling. Over seven months, the video received over 36,100 likes.

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On April 29th, 2025, Instagram^[4] user @mithrylp4 reposted the abovementioned video, gaining over 118,400 likes in seven months.

On September 9th, Instagram^[5] users @jarrodbowenirony and @parmaviolets55 collaborated on a Reel, which used the "You Got a Charger?" clip, spliced with footage of a horse running on a beach. Over two months, the video received over 75,000 likes.

On November 21st, 2025, TikToker^[6] Cookie King on his account @unbancookie shared a video edit meme that used the "You Got a Charger?" clip. Over three days, it received over 300 likes.

On that same day, a Cookie King fan account, TikToker^[7] @idkawesomeedit, shared a "You Got a Charger?" video meme, that showed a "Christmas edition" version of the scene. Over three days, the video gained over 34,500 likes.

On November 22nd, Cookie King shared a TikTok^[8] on @unbancookie, showing a "Gorilla edition" of the "You Got a Charger?" meme, which used a video effect that added a gorilla to each character's back. Over two days, the video garnered over 25,700 likes.

Also on November 22nd, 2025, TikToker^[9] @pastapesto28 shared an iteration of the meme, in which the scene was continually interuppted by a screen asking the viewer to rotate their phone. Over two days, the video gained over 71,000 likes.

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