Dont Touch My Pizza — Green and pink cartoon furry character holding a slice of pepperoni pizza

Dont Touch My Pizza

2023viral videoresurgent

Published August 15, 2026

Don't Touch My Pizza is a 2023 SoundCloud song by Zombycare that became a viral animation meme in July 2024 after YouTuber Nyanwolf paired it with a green anthropomorphic wolf character. The song saw a hate-driven resurgence on TikTok in March 2025.

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Overview

Don't Touch My Pizza, stylized as "don't touch my pizza >:(," is a song by music artist Zombycare paired with an animation meme by YouTuber Nyanwolf featuring a green anthropomorphic wolf singing the track1. The beat is seemingly built on or heavily inspired by Kevin MacLeod's royalty-free instrumental "Pixel Peeker Polka," which the Kevin MacLeod Archive YouTube channel uploaded on November 11th, 20152.

The pairing of the bratty pizza-guarding lyrics with Nyanwolf's scrappy wolf character turned an obscure SoundCloud upload into a recognizable piece of animation-meme culture in 20243. By 2025, the song was being widely mocked on TikTok, with much of the criticism reportedly coming from users associated with the SlimeToken community1.

Origin & Background

Platform
SoundCloud (song) / YouTube (viral animation)
Key People
Zombycare, Nyanwolf
Date
2023

Zombycare released "don't touch my pizza >:(" on SoundCloud on June 16th, 2023, and the track picked up more than 39,000 plays over the next two years4. The song was built around a beat closely tied to Kevin MacLeod's "Pixel Peeker Polka - faster," a widely used royalty-free instrumental2.

The meme half of the pairing arrived on July 14th, 2024, when Nyanwolf uploaded an animation set to the song on YouTube, drawing a green anthropomorphic wolf lip-syncing the track3. That video pulled over 398,000 views in the following eight months and became the piece of media most people associate with the song1.

How It Spread

The animation spread through X across late 2024. On August 24th, 2024, user @f4nirl reposted Nyanwolf's clip with the caption "Straight up thinking. About this video,,..," pulling over 22,000 likes in seven months1. By December 2024, the song was drawing an unexplained wave of hate on X, with much of the backlash aimed at Nyanwolf and many related posts later deleted1. On December 12th, 2024, Nyanwolf reposted a remastered 240p cut of the animation under the handle @kittycatwolf, writing that the whole site had lost its mind over it5.

TikTok picked it up next. On December 15th, 2024, @funkytrax posted a video drawing Nyanwolf set to the track with the caption "why is everyone and their mamas on twitter mad at this animation," clearing a million views in three months6. In March 2025, TikTokers began using the original sound largely to trash it: @skeleton_2322.3 called it the "worstfuckasssound of 2025" on March 15th and hit 1.4 million views in five days7, while @henryhenrihenre lumped it in with "McDonald's In the Pentagon" as one of the "worst songs of all time" on March 16th, reaching 1.2 million views in four days8.

On March 17th, 2025, X user @traxfunky said "slimetok has discovered" the song on their older TikTok upload and shared screenshots of hateful comments plus a DM wishing death on them, pointing at the SlimeToken-adjacent audience as the source of much of the harassment9. A day later, TikToker @slipperine posted a remix that mangled the song almost beyond recognition, gathering over 940,000 views in two days1.

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How to Use This Meme

The typical Don't Touch My Pizza post uses the original Zombycare audio, often layered over fan art of Nyanwolf's green wolf, a reaction to the animation, or a joke about the song being unbearable. On TikTok the common convention as of March 2025 is ironic use, videos captioned as if the sound is the worst thing the user has ever heard, rather than sincere fan edits78.

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