"No Way He Just Put in That Naruto Reference In There" Meme Explained

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This clip from a rap reviewer on Youtube has become a viral meme on TikTok, but what makes it so cringe? Memers have been poking fun at the extremely accurate accent he uses to pronounce various names from the Anime.   For more information, visit: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sharingan-killer-they-call-me-naruto-no-way-he-just-put-in-that-naruto-reference  Check out our new MEME STORE: https://thememestore.com/  Subscribe to our channel to learn more about trending memes, hear interviews from meme personalities and more! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbrPqq29C9Q_TQP7OFFRzcw?sub_confirmation=1

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00:00No way he just put in a Naruto reference in there.

00:03The Naruto fandom is one of the biggest anime fandoms online,

00:06but that doesn't necessarily mean there's solidarity among them.

00:09One such fan has turned into a meme by hyping a Naruto reference made by a rapper.

00:13But why exactly do creators think he's cringe for it?

00:16On March 12th, 2025, TikToker Morzart11 reposted a clip from a video by YouTuber Anthony Ray.

00:22The original video is no longer available, deleted by Anthony Ray according to Morzart.

00:26Anthony Ray, or AR, is a YouTuber who mostly reacts to rap music on his channel.

00:31The clip features Anthony reacting to the song Down on the Beat by Ren,

00:35which was shared to YouTube by the rapper in August of 2023.

00:38After hearing this lyric,

00:41AR pauses the track and goes on a bit of a rant in appreciation of the reference.

00:45No way he just put in a Naruto reference in there.

00:49People seem to especially latch on to the way that AR says Naruto,

00:52as well as other names from the anime.

00:54My anime fans are going, man, I love this reference.

00:57Sasuke! Naruto!

01:00Sharingan. Izanagi Amatrasu.

01:03For many, the American YouTuber saying the names with a Japanese accent painted him as a weeaboo

01:08and therefore made the clip cringe.

01:10A weeaboo, or weeb, is a slang term for a person, generally of non-Asian descent,

01:14who prefers Japan and all things Japanese over their indigenous culture.

01:18The Morzart clip displaying this moment received around 1.4 million views in the next three weeks,

01:23and the sound from the video started to spread among other memers on TikTok.

01:26Some started sharing Jug Talk videos with it,

01:29a new genre of memes characterized by walls of text and squished background videos.

01:33For example, on March 23rd,

01:35TikToker HookedProd used the sound for a Jug Talk video with an NBA background.

01:39A rough version of AR's quote was written in text overlay.

01:42The post garnered over 1.2 million views in under two weeks.

01:45The sound and clip started to evolve into other forms of brain rot memes,

01:49with users posting all kinds of meme edits to it,

01:52using lightning eyes, explosions, and other lobotomy core and brain rot elements.

01:56which→

01:58description are the most

02:18possible emotions.

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