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Revision as of 05:19, 12 January 2025
Charlie, The Steak was a 2013 mobile game developed by DynamicDust for iOS devices. It was advertised as a stress-reliever game wherein you can torture a sentient piece of steak in increasingly brutal ways. The titular steak, Charlie, repeats everything the player says into the device microphone, in a similar fashion to the mobile game Talking Tom.
Besides the main gameplay there were mini-games that, when beaten, would reward the player with meatballs. These meatballs were the main currency of the game that could be used to unlock the higher-tier levels and other bonus content such as an in-game photo editor.
It was a novel twist on the many Talking Tom-esque virtual pet games that were dime a dozen on the App Store at the time.
The game was delisted from the App Store in 2015 and since then has been considered lost media.
e e ei i'm on vacation
Sometime in April of 2024, a TikToker made a meme which used a picture of Charlie from the game with the song "Vacation" by Dirty Heads playing over it, calling it "e e ei." This was intended to be a spinoff of the "oi oi oi red larva" meme from a few months prior, which itself was (presumably) inspired by the Gegagedigedagedago meme before it.
Shortly after, content farms that were milking oi oi oi then latched onto the meme en masse in record time, continuing to pump out hilariously bad videos featuring both oi oi oi and e e ei. A few examples are shown below.
These videos typically play out the same way, with Charlie and Larva singing their respective songs, getting into a scuffle, and then somehow turning into amalgamations of one another by the end of it. Needless to say, children ate this slop up, with some shorts and videos reaching millions of views.
Some of the content farm videos also used some clips from the actual Charlie the Steak game, particularly the gory ones where his eye gets pulled out with a fork. The comments under these videos show horrified comments made by iPad kids, meaning this shit is probably going to be an early traumatic memory for Generation Alpha.
ei ei ei estoy de vacaciones
On June 9th that same year, a Spanish parody of e e ei i'm on vacation was created by the latinx YouTuber Vristok, featuring a hyperdetailed 3D model of Super Meat Boy singing the song. Content farms were again quick to adopt it for their videos, and "ei ei ei estoy de vacaciones" became a new variant featured in the videos alongside oi oi oi and e e ei.
Return from Vacation
Because of the e e ei meme, people began to look into the origins of the steak in the image. After determining its origin in Charlie, The Steak, they quickly found out that there were no archived IPAs of the game file, meaning that the game was lost media. The search for Charlie, The Steak continued, with even posts on X being made about it that got thousands of likes, helping further spreading the word about it until on August 2nd, 2024, someone named Dipper Gaming uploaded the IPA file on archive.org, preserving this once thought to be lost piece of mobile game history.
The newfound attention was enough to catch the attention of the original developer of Charlie, The Steak which prompted him to work on a remake. The remake released on the App Store on December 31, 2024 and is essentially just the original game but updated to be playable on modern iOS devices.
