I Wipe My Ass, I Slap My Nuts

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I Wipe My Ass, I Slap My Nuts refers to a parody of the lyrics to the song "Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons which originated as a text post on Tumblr and was later recreated in images and utilized in an audio remix that added lyrics to the original parody.

Origin

In the 2012 song "Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons, the lyrics in the prechorus read:

I'm waking up to ash and dust
I wipe my brow and I sweat my rust

In March of 2017, a text post originally written by Tumblr user butchgomezaddams spread, reading:

im waking up
to ash and dust
i wipe my brow and i slap my nuts

The original post is deleted. User samtchalla reblogged the post on March 17th, 2018.^[1] It has gained over 71,000 notes (shown below).

Spread

On April 21st iFunny user HiggsBoson^[2] created an extended version of the lyrics which were used in a parody of the song that iFunny user MLPFun^[3] posted on April 22nd, 2018 (Youtube backup shown below, left). The audio was used in a few more video parodies on YouTube, each utilizing different footage. Another edit by YouTuber Funee used footage from a WWE 2k game, gaining over 2,000 views (shown below, right).

The lyrics were also used in some image parodies. On June 25th, 2018, Facebook meme page Organically Grown Memes posted a parody that used the lyrics as dialogue options in Detroit: Become Human, gaining over 1,900 likes and reactions (shown below, left). A Spotify Playlist Message parody appeared on Imgur on June 24th (shown below, right).