You Burned My House To The Ground!

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You Burned My House To The Ground!, continued My Family's Dead, What Do I Do?, refers to a viral TikTok audio derived from the Mitch Shrugging duet meme where TikToker Blaine Jordan angrily yells that Mitch burned his house to the ground and killed his family. The video was posted in September 2022 and became a prevalent original sound later that year, also inspiring photo slideshows and animations on YouTube.

Origin

On September 24th, 2022, TikToker^[1] @blainejordan duetted a viral video by TikToker @mitchelldale8 where he yells, "You burned my house to the ground!" followed by Mitchell shrugging, then yells again, "My family's dead, what do I do?" and Mitchell shrugs and smiles again, garnering over 17.9 million views in two months (shown below).

On October 23rd, YouTuber^[2] Quenjonem posted an original animation depicting @blainejordan as a medieval villager whose house is burning to the ground, yelling at a creature in a tree, Mitch, who is responsible for burning the house down, garnering over 53,000 views in a month (shown below). This is the earliest known animation to use the audio.

Spread

The audio became increasingly popularized throughout November 2022. On November 5th, 2022, TikToker^[3] @viceguns posted an Undertale animation using the audio, garnering over 1.8 million views in a month (shown below, left). On November 9th, TikToker^[4] @panchenko_boche posted a Minecraft animation using the audio, garnering over 3 million views in the same rough span of time (shown below, right).

People also started posting edits of the original video. On November 9th, TikToker^[5] @gakidx posted a Final Fantasy VII edit using the video, garnering over 618,000 views in a month (shown below).

A day earlier, TikToker^[6] @@.d.4.c posted a similar edit, which became popular as an original sound, inspiring over 82,000 videos by December 1st. Some of the most popular videos are lip dubs where users yell at their pets, themselves or another person as if they burned down their house, essentially recreating the original duet (examples shown below, left and right).

On November 27th, YouTuber^[7] Amine_SFM posted an edit using the audio over footage from Bendy and the Ink Machine, garnering over 30,000 views in four days (shown below).