![]() ![]() 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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