E E Ei

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About

E E Ei, also known as E E Ei I'm on Vacation or E Ei Ei, refers to a misheard song lyric speech bubble meme showing a piece of meat or steak with eyes and teeth singing the song "Vacation" by Dirty Heads, pronouncing it "E e ei, Imon vagayxon." The meme added to other singing object memes like Oi Oi Oi Red Larva and Gegagedigedagedago with the Roblox Chicken Nugget. The steak's real name is Charlie the Steak from the 2013 iOS app game.

Origin

On April 17th, 2024, TikToker^[1] @eeeioficial posted the earliest discovered instance of the E E Ei meme, showing a piece of raw steak singing the song "Vacation" by Dirty Heads but mispronouncing the lyrics as "E e ei, Imon vagayxon, Evrizingou dei, Cus ailov mawackupaxien." The correct lyrics are, "Ay ay ay, I'm on vacation, every single day, 'cause I love my occupation." Over two months the video received roughly 45,200 plays and 2,000 likes.

The meme went largely viral because TikToker^[2] @eeeioficial posted another video on April 17th, using the TikTok sound^[3] of the first video. The second video received over 216,400 plays and 17,500 likes over the same timeframe.

On June 10th, @eeeioficial's TikTok account was deleted for currently unknown reasons.

Spread

Going into mid-2024, the E E Ei TikTok sound^[3] received mass usage. For instance, an early example was shared by TikToker^[4] @.cloudyoon on May 11th, 2024, showing a phone overrun with E E Ei imagery, gaining roughly 4.2 million plays and 386,800 likes in a month (shown below, left).

On May 16th, TikToker^[5] @avviso662 posted a video that used the Revive App to make the steak sing E E Ei, gaining over 5.1 million plays and 507,500 likes in a month (shown below, right).

Reposts and original iterations of the meme then spread to YouTube, such as a repost shared by YouTuber^[6] cloudwasntvibing on May 21st, 2024, gaining over 348,700 views in 20 days (shown below, left).

On May 28th, YouTuber^[7] clown? posted an "I Have 4 Moods" meme, gaining over 316,400 views in 13 days (shown below, right).

By June 10th, 2024, the trend's primary TikTok sound^[3] had amassed over 11,700 posts.