Chikn Nuggit

About

Chikn Nuggit refers to a series of animations on TikTok and Twitter starring a dog named Chikn Nuggit and his animal friends, hosted on the accounts @chikn.nuggit and @chikn_nuggit respectively. The cutesy animations are created by Kyra Kupetsky, a BuzzFeed employee, who also provides the voice of Chikn Nuggit. The series first began in October 2020 and gained a significant following on TikTok and Twitter, gaining over 2.9 million followers on the former and 131,000 on the latter in a year. The episodes are animated in part by Twitter's @Grind3h. There are three new animations per week on average.

History

On October 15th, 2020, the @chikn_nuggit Twitter^[1] account posted its first tweet, sharing a link to the TikTok page @chikn.nuggit and saying "Hello world! (◉ᴥ◉)." On the same day, the @chikn.nuggit TikTok account posted its first animation, showing the dog character Chikn Nuggit popping out of a box of chicken nuggets and saying "I am born," gaining over 1.2 million views in a year (shown below).

On October 16th, both accounts posted an animation where Chikn Nuggit says to a cat "Y'all ever with you could just belong?" and the cat telling him he does belong, followed by Nuggit telling the cat it misunderstands and his neck extending to space, revealing that he meant "be long," gaining over 3.4 million views on TikTok and 2,400 retweets and 10,000 likes on Twitter in a year (shown below).

On October 17th, Kupetsky tweeted, "WOOO I can announce this now!! I have my own show now at work, on TikTok! xD Chikn Nuggit! A weird series about a little dog and his friends. I’m joined by the unbelievably talented @Grind3h who’s helping me animate these. We’re putting out 3 a week! Follow it on TikTok! ;u;" On October 23rd, the TikTok page posted a video which gained over 4.2 million views in a year (shown below). Since they began posting three times weekly in October 2020, the majority of animations have gained over a million views.

On April 2nd, the chikn.nuggit TikTok page posted a video introducing each character in the series (shown below). The characters include dog Chikn Nuggit, cat Cheez-Borgor, bunny Iscream, fox Slushi, dragon Fwench Fwy and red panda Sody Pop.

Two of the most popular videos include a June 18th, 2021 post that gained over 12 million views in four months (shown below, left) and a July 16th upload that gained over 10 million in three months (shown below, right).

On July 19th, they uploaded an animation where Fwench Fwy wears a bathing suit and claims it's the "summer of thiccness," gaining over 2.5 million views on TikTok and 19,000 likes on Twitter^[4] in three months (shown below).

Online Presence

Chikn Nuggit gained a significant fanbase over the course of 2020 and 2021, with over 2.9 million followers on TikTok 131,000 on Twitter by October 2021. The popularity of the series has inspired fan art on sites like Tumblr^[2] and Deviant Art^[3] (examples shown below, left and right). It has also inspired rule 34 art.

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