Rare Candy tweet about using multiple slurp juices on a single ape, over an illustration of an armored ape NFT.

Slurp Juice

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Published October 17, 2026

Slurp Juice is an Astro Ape NFT accessory that became a Twitter copypasta in May 2022, after Rare Candy IO tried to clarify that ape holders could combine multiple slurp juices with a single ape. Readers found the sentence so absurd they parodied it for two days straight, until Buzzfeed News and Input Magazine linked the project to racist edgelord accounts.

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Overview

At its core, Slurp Juice is a line of NFT consumables tied to the Astro Ape collection sold on Rarecandy.io, where combining one juice with one ape mints a new ape such as a Lab Monke or a Special Forces unit1. What turned the product name into a meme was the earnest, lowercase explainer tweet from the Rare Candy IO account, which read like it was translating a game manual into customer-service English and only made the concept sound more ridiculous2.

Quote-tweets of the original post reused its exact math problem structure, swapping apes and juices for unrelated nouns to mock the overserious tone of NFT marketing3. Riffs ranged from the Katie Notopoulos "30-50 slurp juices" mash-up with 30-50 Feral Hogs to a Seinfeld-themed rewrite by @stepheniscowboy, both leaning on how clinical the sentence sounds when read aloud45. Within days, Input Magazine traced the Rare Candy IO account to what it called a web of crypto-fascist sympathizers, and the joke effectively died once the association became public knowledge3.

Origin & Background

Platform
Twitter
Creator
Rare Candy IO
Date
2022

The original tweet went up on May 3rd, 2022, from the Rare Candy IO account, which was promoting that evening's Slurp Juice mint event for its Astro Ape holders2. The full text read, "a lotta yall still dont get it. ape holders can use multiple slurp juices on a single ape. so if you have 1 astro ape and 3 slurp juices you can create 3 new apes. Tonight's slurp juice mint event is essentially a minting event for both Lab Monkes and Special Forces"2.

According to Know Your Meme, that post picked up more than 210 retweets, 400 quote tweets and 280 likes inside 24 hours, almost entirely because people were laughing at it rather than buying juices5. Rarecandy.io itself hosted both the Astro Ape and Slurp Juice collections, priced in the Bitcoin Satoshi Vision alt-coin, with items ranging from roughly $200 to $3,500 or more3.

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How It Spread

Virality kicked in on the morning of May 4th, 2022, when @SilvermanJacob quote-tweeted the Rare Candy post and racked around 430 retweets and 3,900 likes in the first two hours4. A parallel quote-tweet from @Slime_Golem brought in another 52 retweets and 258 likes in the same window, cementing the sentence as a template rather than a one-off joke6.

Parodies followed within hours. Buzzfeed News writer Katie Notopoulos posted "30-50 slurp juices," splicing the copypasta with the 30-50 Feral Hogs meme, and then wrote an explainer piece for Buzzfeed News that treated the NFT jargon with mock-sincere clarity71. User @stepheniscowboy rewrote the tweet as a Seinfeld bit the same afternoon, pulling around 20 likes in a similar two-hour window8.

On May 6th, 2022, Input Magazine published a follow-up reporting that the Rare Candy IO account appeared tied to accounts posting extremist material, something the project operator denied3. Buzzfeed News later appended an editor's note to the Notopoulos piece acknowledging the same association and stripping links to the project, after which the Slurp Juice joke faded from active circulation1.

Timeline

2022-05-03

Rare Candy IO tweets the "multiple slurp juices on a single ape" explainer ahead of its Slurp Juice mint event.

2022-05-04

@SilvermanJacob and @Slime_Golem quote-tweet the post, turning it into a copypasta template with thousands of likes in hours.

2022-05-04

Katie Notopoulos posts the "30-50 slurp juices" riff and @stepheniscowboy posts a Seinfeld parody of the tweet.

2022-05-04

Buzzfeed News publishes Notopoulos's humor explainer about the Slurp Juice tweet.

2022-05-06

Input Magazine reports that the Rare Candy IO account appears linked to racist edgelord trolls; Buzzfeed News adds an editor's note and removes project links.

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How to Use This Meme

A typical Slurp Juice riff reuses the "so if you have 1 X and 3 Y you can create 3 new X" math-problem cadence, often with the deadpan lowercase phrasing of the original. People commonly keep the opening "a lotta yall still dont get it" clause intact and change only the nouns, since that first line is what signals the reference.

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