My First Jar of Pickles

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About

My First Jar of Pickles refers to a viral video from TikTok showing a white girl making pickles for the first time, saying, "My first jar of pickles. Shut up," and then appearing to say the N-word with a hard R. In the original clip, the girl actually says, "No, you're jealous," but her pronunciation sounded like the N-word to many, leading to shocked reactions online. The video was originally posted by TikToker Autumn Acord (@autumnacord) in July 2024. Going into August of that year, many made memes, skits and edits with the My First Jar of Pickles video, joking about her verbal slip.

Origin

On July 29th, 2024, TikToker^[1] @autumnacord posted a video of her preparing her first-ever jar of homemade pickles. She's seen with blonde hair in a ponytail and a sweatshirt reading, "JACKSON HOLE." The video received over 130,800 likes in 15 days (shown below, left). At the video's 2:20-minute mark, @autumnacord holds up the jar and says, "My first jar of pickles. Shut up. No, you're jealous," however, "No, you're" sounded like the N-word with a hard R to many upon watching the clip.

Also on July 29th, TikToker^[7] @autumnacord posted just the clip of her saying, "My first jar of pickles…" with a No One caption reading, "no one: me me when I learn something new." The video, description read, "no you’re jealouuuuss." Over 15 days, it amassed over 10.1 million plays and 1.2 million (shown below, right).

My first jar of pickles. Shut up. No, you're jealous.

Spread

On August 2nd, 2024, TikToker^[2] @ddddddddd4250 clipped the abovementioned video, cutting it before she said "jealous," receiving over 7.1 million plays and 779,900 likes in 11 days (shown below, left). On the same day, TikToker^[3] @ryanhwefdia posted an identical clip, gaining over 3.4 million plays.

TikTokers^[4] continued to clip the video in the following days and memes began to arise. For instance, on August 7th, TikToker^[5] @jepaloon posted a meme edit with the video, gaining roughly 2.4 million plays and 346,100 likes in six days (shown below, right).

TikTokers started parodying the original video going into August 2024, starting with TikToker^[6] @perccbarry on August 9th, gaining over 11.7 million plays and 1.8 million likes in four days (shown below).