Legalize Anabolic Steroids

About

Legalize Anabolic Steroids refers to a viral sound effect that mimics a hip-hop producer tag. The audio is a spoof of the "legalize nuclear bombs" meme, and it grew popular on TikTok after October 2022. The sound is popular in fitness and weightlifting communities on TikTok.

Origin

On February 12th, 2022, producer @Actavis7_ uploaded a track named "yeat x actavis type beat luh geek" on YouTube, gathering over 16,000 views in ten months (seen below).^[1]

On August 16th, 2022, TikToker^[2] @bouchermma posted the earliest known video to overlay the phrase "legalize anabolic steroids" onto the aforementioned track, gathering over 1.3 million plays and 230,000 likes in over four months (seen below).

Spread

On October 6th, 2022, TikToker @anabolicapparel posted a video set to a fake hip-hop producer tag that said, "legalize anabolic steroids," gathering over 870,000 plays and 160,000 likes in over three months (seen below).^[3]

Several TikTokers used the sound on October 7th. TikToker^[4] @dr.billiam posted a video using the sound and gathered over 200,000 plays and 44,000 likes in over three months (seen below, left). Also on October 7th, TikToker^[5] @.tattered posted a video using the sound, gathering over 300,000 plays and 38,000 likes in over three months (seen below, right).

On October 8th, TikToker^[6] @one.jacked.mechanic posted an edit using the sound, gathering over 80,000 plays and 15,000 likes in approximately three months (seen below, left). On October 9th, TikToker^[7] @bulking_jax posted a video using the sound, gathering more than 20,000 plays and 2,000 likes in just over three months (seen below, right).

Various Examples

Search Interest

Unavailable.

External References