Chop Suey! was released in 2001 as the lead single from System of a Down's album Toxicity and became the band's breakthrough hit. Its frantic shifts between whispered verses and shouted choruses made short excerpts easy to lift for edits. Clips of the opening vocal circulated on soundboards and in meme videos through the 2010s, where the sound was repurposed far beyond metal fans as a universal cue for panic, sudden energy, and an over the top wake up moment.