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AI Food Yelling At You is an informative AI video meme trend in which people generate videos of food and other products yelling at the viewer and scolding them, often for not cooking, preparing or storing them properly, while teaching the viewer how to properly treat and use them. The AI trend was started in mid-2025 by TikToker @freshhacks and was popularized in December 2025 and January 2026 by TikTokers @livelongerlab and @thingstalkback. As the trend grew more viral in early 2026, TikTokers began posting videos recreating it and bringing more attention to it.

Origin

On August 5th, 2025, TikToker^[1] @freshhacks posted an AI-generated video of an onion angrily wondering why it was put in the fridge, claiming that it will rot faster in the fridge, garnering over 18,200 views in five months. This is the earliest known example of the trend.

The same TikToker continued to post videos of AI food and products offering angry educational advice in the following months.

On August 15th, the TikToker^[2] posted a version of the meme where a coffee bean reminds you to put it in a jar, a banana reminds you to store it outside the fridge and lettuce is invited into a container for freshness, garnering over 420,000 views in five months.

Spread

In December 2025, TikToker^[3] @livelongerlab started following the trend. On December 30th, 2025, they posted a video following the format that begins with a bowl of rice, garnering over 14 million views in a month.

On January 5th, 2026, TikToker^[4] @ThingsTalkBack posted a video following the same format as @freshhacks's content, where penne pasta yells at you and teaches you how to cook it properly, garnering over 2.8 million views in about two weeks.

The page's videos continued to prove popular through January 2026. For example, on January 7th, the TikToker^[5] uploaded another example of the trend, starting with a container of strawberries that gained over 8.8 million views in two weeks.

As the trend continued to spread, TikTokers began posting videos referencing the videos. On January 20th, TikToker^[6] @roygantzz posted a video captioned, "Those videos where the AI foods yell at u," where he recreates an example of the videos, garnering over 2.3 million views in three days.

On January 21st, 2026, TikToker^[7] @tyler_warwick posted a similar skit where he recreates an AI food yelling video, garnering over 2.6 million views in two days.

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