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“In da clerb, we all fam” TikTok trend, explained

“In da clerb, we all fam” TikTok trend, explained

Do the voices in the “in da clerb, we all fam” soundbite circulating on TikTok sound vaguely familiar? Maybe they’ll take you back to a time when bandage dresses and mustache prints ruled before weed was legal in New York City? That’s because they are the voices of Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer on their hit show Broad city.

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Broad cityThe final episode may have aired in 2019, but if TikTok is any indication, Jacobson and Glazer’s absurd stoner humor still resonates. In the clip, which has now soundtracked over 70,000 videos, Abbi asks, “Do you know her?” and Ilana replies, “No, but deep down we’re all fam.” Abbi doesn’t understand and Ilana repeats it before saying, ” In the club we are all a family, are you racist?”

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The audio was not uploaded to TikTok as the image of Abbi and Ilana makes its origin difficult for many to determine. But the scene is popular with many Broad city fans. A YouTube video of this posted 8 years ago has over 80,000 views. The comments section is full of years-old messages like, “This still makes me laugh” and “I think about this scene a lot.”

Some fans are frustrated that the dialogue is viewed as TikTok slang. A user of

The trend was further decontextualized when it turned into a meme on X. Users tag a variety of photos of groups of people with “in da clerb, we all fam.” Movies like Bottoms And Body, body, body have gotten the “in da clerb, we all fam” treatment as well as shows like Consequence And The sex lives of college girls. The phrase is also used to label symbols of fandom. A clever post refers to Chappell Roan’s reading: “In the Pink Pony Clerb, we all fam.”

So “In da clerb, we all fam” is the phrase du jour for now – until a new sound bite is plucked from the darkness and forced into our cultural consciousness.