JuggTok / SlimeTok

Submission 6,380

Part of a series on Hood Irony. [View Related Entries]

About

JuggTok and SlimeTok refers to a genre of Hood Irony video memes on TikTok and Instagram Reels characterized by intentionally bastardized AAVE slang, walls of vertical text with Slang Overload and background videos that allude and oftentimes subvert Blackness, including Druski Dancing and JamWayne rapping. Emojis like the broken heart emoji (💔), also known as the heartbreak emoji, and the Dead Rose Emoji (🥀), are common signifiers of JuggTok, meant to mock performative emo culture, specifically aimed at underground rap fanbases. The "green heart" emoji (💚) is commonly used for SlimeTok. "JuggTok" is a portmanteau of the AAVE term "jugg" — roughly meaning "rob" — and "TikTok." "SlimeTok" is a similar portmanteau derived from the AAVE term "slime" — meaning a friend — and "TikTok." The JuggTok and SlimeTok aesthetic sprouted from Chopped Chin memes and the intentional misuse of ICL TS PMO in early 2025. By February 2025, so-called "JuggTokers" created SlimeTok after JuggTok allegedly became "mainstream." The idea that JuggTok and the 💔 emoji had become mainstream led to the ironic creation of SlimeTok. Thereafter, memes powerscaling JuggTok and SlimeTok surfaced en masse. So-called JollyTok also spawned from JuggTok memes.

Origin

JuggTok edits stem from a series of TikTok video memes that use a variant of the I Will Not Rap In Class meme that instead read, "I will not jugg in class." The videos commonly had the phrase written multiple times in a vertical stack.

One of the earliest examples was shared by TikToker^[1] @jugginnmysleep on November 1st, 2024, instead reading, "I will jugg in class." The video also had the hashtag #juggtok in the description and is currently the first known to use it. The video received over 1,100 likes in four months (shown below).

On November 2nd, TikToker^[2] @jugginnmysleep shared another video with a similar aesthetic, captioned, "Reasons why you should start jugging today," gaining over 15,700 likes in four months (shown below). Again, the video used #juggtok.

Precursor

On January 29th, 2025, TikToker^[3] @tai1lor posted a JuggTok video that attested, "I miss old JuggTok, bro. I remember how videos were actually creative and had different sounds and background videos. Now it's vids milking out "TS," "SMH" and "PMO" with either Druski Dancing or a Minature Squid Game Guard. JuggTok as a whole is being gentrified." The video received over 9,600 likes in two months.

In the comments, users named TikTok editors who allegedly founded the JuggTok aesthetic, including gloinpce, stanclickn and jd. The latter two largely spread the JD You Coming to Practice? meme in July 2024.

All of the aforementioned TikTokers have since been deleted or removed from the platform.

Spread

JuggTok spread in popularity heading into late 2024. For instance, the aesthetic largely gained traction from the Druski Dancing memes that added long-form text captions to videos of internet comedian Druski dancing, originally on a Kai Cenat stream with comedian Kevin Hart.

For instance, the original Druski Dancing meme was shared by TikToker^[4] @freejbandzz on December 20th, 2024, reading, "2024 wrap up," with satirical stats joking about being unemployed and chronically online, gaining over 364,000 likes in three months (shown below).

On February 10th, 2025, TikToker^[6] @injustice_hub posted a JuggTok video using white southern rapper JamWayne as the background and including a caption that utilized the TS PMO ICL slang, gaining over 176,500 likes in a month (shown below).

On February 21st, TikToker^[7] @sorryicalled posted a video about JuggTok getting gentrified and feeling nostalgic for "JuggTok 2022-2024," receiving over 81,200 likes in a month (shown below).

SlimeTok

On February 22nd, 2025, TikToker^[8] @jugginnmysleep shared a video that read, "JuggTok is over. Those people found it and made it corny / Now we moving on to SlimeTok," gaining over 32,700 likes in a month (shown below). It is currently the first known video to use "SlimeTok."

In the following weeks, the idea of SlimeTok as an alternative JuggTok spread in memes, evident in a post shared by TikToker^[5] @ccaptain01 on March 14th, that ironically called SlimeTok "corny" and referenced the March 2025 Meme Drought, gaining over 154,300 likes in three days (shown below).