I’m In Heaven Now! So Sorry I Died. I Miss You So Much / Nathan For You's "Dog Heaven"

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I’m In Heaven Now! So Sorry I Died. I Miss You So Much, also known as Dog Heaven, refers to a sound from Nathan Fielder's comedy show Nathan For You in which Fielder hired a Japanese voice actor to record a message for a boy whose dog died and was now in "Dog Heaven." The boy ultimately cried because of the strange voice and the hilarious tragedy later became a meme on TikTok started by a Twitter video related to Queen Elizabeth II's death in September 2022. Most of the TikTok videos were about pet hamsters dying, among other pet death stories.

Origin

On April 11th, 2013, the fifth episode of the first season of Nathan For You aired titled, "The Claw of Shame," in which Fielder performed a daring escape from a robotic claw that would expose himself to many children, therefore making him a registered sex offender if he didn't escape.^[1] Around the 10-minute mark of the episode, Fielder transitioned to a segment on his "Business Failures," including one business venture about a "tear-free" way to break the news to a child that their dog had died, done by hiring a voice actor and creating a video of the dog telling the child that they're in "Dog Heaven" now. The "Business Failures" segment was uploaded to YouTube by Comedy Central on April 12th, 2013, earning roughly 568,600 views in nine years. At the 1:08-minute mark, the "Dog Heaven" clip begins (shown below).

Oh, it's me Madi. I'm in heaven now! So sorry I died. I miss you so much. I'm happy here, so I'm not coming home.

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The "Dog Heaven" segment was uploaded to YouTube^[2]^[3] by many different users going into 2021. On September 8th, 2022, Twitter^[4] user BANNEDNOWMAD tweeted, "Buckingham Palace just released this video," which captioned a video of Queen Elizabeth II saying, "I'm in heaven now! So sorry I died. I miss you so much. I'm happy here, so I'm not coming home," which was surfaced from the Nathan For You episode. Over the course of 18 days, the tweet received roughly 3.2 million views and 112,900 likes (shown below).

Later on September 8th, 2022, TikToker^[5] sophiathegr9 posted a screen-recording of BANNEDNOWMAD's tweet, gaining roughly 950,000 plays and 86,000 likes in the same time period (shown below, left). Thereafter, multiple TikTokers started lip-dubbing the sound, pretending to be various pets, people and concepts that had died. For instance, the first-known TikToker to use the sound was TikToker^[6] laylawkneee on September 9th, who made a joke about her hamster dying in a guitar, gaining roughly 446,600 plays and 74,700 likes in 17 days (shown below, right).

The sound gained more usage going into late September 2022, with the videos earning increased engagement. For instance, on September 22nd, 2022, TikToker^[7] moosepenguin used the sound to reiterate a story about their friend killing their pet rat, gaining roughly 1.2 million plays and 219,800 likes in four days (shown below, left). On September 24th, 2022, TikToker^[8] twoinchdestroyer used the sound to reiterate their hamster death story, gaining roughly 1.5 million plays and 422,900 likes in two days (shown below, right).

Hamster Death Stories

Hamster Death Stories, also known as Hamster Dying Stories or How Hamsters Die, refers to a cliché and axiom in memes about the strange, weird and unnatural ways that pet hamsters seem to always die. The concept's been referenced across social media on platforms like Twitter, Reddit and TikTok where creators share their childhood stories of dying hamsters. The trend became notable in early 2021 on TikTok.