![]() ![]() On October 3rd, 2014, the video remix fad really took off with a video submitted by Redditor Daco-roman to /r/videos, which shows another young boy talking back in expletives after being teased for struggling to tie his shoes (shown below). The Thug Life meme reached the peak of its popularity in February of 2015 and has been slowly declining since. On July 20th, Redditor Russian_For_Rent submitted the clip to /r/videos in a post titled "my favorite video on the internet as of now," which garnered more than 2,344 points prior to its archival. On June 13th, 2014, YouTuber lolonym uploaded a video titled "Thug Life (nerf gun review)," in which a young boy opens up a monologue of a NERF toy gun review, before he trails off and says "I don't know what it's called… maybe it's called fuck you" (shown below). The formulaic set-up of the thug life remixes also bears resemblance to "How to Shut Down a Ho" remixes, another series of remix videos that open with a verbal insult or a punchline quoted from a popular film or television show before suddenly cutting to a scene of a crowd's wild reaction to the said line. The video was the original precursor, to the more popular "I'll kill your dog" rendition that followed a similar pattern (shown below, right). ![]() On January 23rd, 2013, YouTuber Otis Anderson posted an edited clip from the Penn and Teller show Bull Shit featuring the 2003 rap song "Where the Hood At" by DMX with a gray fade out (shown below, left). ![]()
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