Tomato Town Massacre

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Tomato Town Massacre refers to a series of memes referencing a lyric from the Fortnite-themed 2018 parody song "Chug Jug With You" in which its author Leviathan sings about scoring 10 kills in Tomato Town. Following the viral popularity of the song in February 2021, memes describing the events that occurred in Tomato Town as horrific and tragic gained popularity online.

Origin

In February 2021, the Fortnite-themed parody song "Chug Jug With You" by Leviathan went viral on social media. In the opening verse of the song, Leviathan sings about "wiping out Tomato Town" via "10 kills on the board," with Tomato Town being a location (point of interest) on the in-game map. The lyric means that Leviathan and his friend killed 10 other players in the location.

We got a number one Victory Royale
Yeah, Fortnite, we 'bout get down (get down!)
Ten kills on the board right now
Just wiped out Tomato Town

On March 10th, 2021, Twitter^[1] user @PanicHippy posted the lyric combined with a photograph of Death Grips singer MC Ride, with the image gaining over 7,800 retweets and 54,000 likes in four days (shown below).

Spread

On March 11th, Twitter^[2] user @dodgonkulator posted an I Killed Them All meme referencing "Chug Jug With You" that received over 10,900 retweets and 102,400 likes in three days (shown below, left). Also on the same day, Twitter^[3] user @unabombination posted a thread "What's going on in Tomato Town: a thread," parodying Twitter threads about mass shootings and other violent incidents. The first tweet in the thread gained over 1,100 retweets and 5,500 likes in three days (shown below, right).

On March 12th, 2021, Twitter^[4] user @DannyVegito posted a You're Laughing meme that received over 21,900 retweets and 199,400 likes in two days (shown below).

On that day, several more users posted viral tweets referencing the lyric, including posts by @RealGamerduck^[5] (44,200 likes), @SOJ_Online^[6] (7,900 likes) and @MinModulation^[7] (8,000 likes) (shown below).

On March 13th, 2021, "Tomato Town" achieved top trends on Twitter in the U.S. with over 44,000 tweets.^[8]

On March 15th, 2021, Redditor^[9] 1_- posted a copypasta about Tomato Town Massacre, with the post gaining over 120 upvotes in one day.