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==Reception==
==Reception==
===Reaction videos===
===Reaction videos===
Part of what has facilitated 2 Girls 1 Cup's spread are the reactions it causes.<ref name=gay>{{cite news|first=Dylan|last=Vox|title=Reactions to Disturbing '2 Girls 1 Cup' Video Flood YouTube|publisher=Gay Wired|url=http://www.gaywired.com/article.cfm?section=66&id=17479|date=December 10, 2007|accessdate=2007-12-18}}</ref> Thousands of videos exist on [[YouTube]] of users showing the original video (off-camera) to their friends and taping their reactions, although some videos seem to be staged.<ref name=msnbc /><ref name=McGill /><ref name=gay /> Even [[Joe Rogan]], host of ''[[Fear Factor]]'', a show notorious for the disgusting things its contestants are forced to eat, had to turn away in a reaction video posted to his blog.<ref>[http://www.break.com/index/joe-rogan-watches-2-girls-1-cup.html Joe Rogan Watches 2 Girls 1 Cup Video<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> A reaction video starring a [[Kermit the Frog]] puppet proved very popular on the community-based popularity website [[Digg]].<ref name=clicked>{{cite news|first=Will|last=Femia|title=User Generated Failure|publisher=msnbc's Clicked|url=http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/28/484924.aspx|date=November 28, 2007|accessdate=2007-12-08}}</ref> In January 2008, ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'' magazine documented the reaction video phenomenon with a slideshow featuring various reactions.<ref>{{cite news|first=Michael|last=Agger|title=2 Girls 1 Cup 0 Shame|publisher=Slate Magazine|url=http://www.slate.com/id/2182833/|date=2008-01-31|accessdate=2008-02-16}}</ref> [[Violet Blue (author)|Violet Blue]], an author, described this website as becoming "the new '[[tubgirl]]' and [[goatse]] all in one disgusting moment of choco-poo-love" in a ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' article.<ref>"[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/12/27/violetblue.DTL The top 10 sex memes of 2007 From convictions to hoaxes, Violet Blue looks at 2007's most-clicked items]." ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]''. December 27, 2007. Accessed July 29, 2008.</ref> In the "2guys1podcast" episode of Put It In Your Ears, co-host Gavin St. Ours watches the video after claiming he never will, and his entire reaction is caught on tape.<ref>[http://www.putitinyourears.com/001 The "2guys1podcast" episode of Put It In Your Ears]</ref> "Genuine Nerd" [[Toby Radloff]] was so disgusted by the clip that he had to immediately watch it again.<ref>"[http://www.lurid.com/archives/17 2 Girls 1 Cup 1 Nerd]"</ref> Veteran porn star [[Ron Jeremy]] walked off while watching the video on ''[[The Playhouse (radio show)|The Playhouse]]''.<ref>"[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_V6xwCixLk Ron Jeremy - 2 Girls 1 Cup Reaction]." Playhouse TV. November 16, 2007. Retrieved on September 15, 2009.</ref>
Part of what has facilitated 2 Girls 1 Cup's spread are the reactions it causes.<ref name=gay>{{cite news|first=Dylan|last=Vox|title=Reactions to Disturbing '2 Girls 1 Cup' Video Flood YouTube|publisher=Gay Wired|url=http://www.gaywired.com/article.cfm?section=66&id=17479|date=December 10, 2007|accessdate=2007-12-18}}{{dead link|date=September 2009|bot=WebCiteBOT}}</ref> Thousands of videos exist on [[YouTube]] of users showing the original video (off-camera) to their friends and taping their reactions, although some videos seem to be staged.<ref name=msnbc /><ref name=McGill /><ref name=gay /> Even [[Joe Rogan]], host of ''[[Fear Factor]]'', a show notorious for the disgusting things its contestants are forced to eat, had to turn away in a reaction video posted to his blog.<ref>[http://www.break.com/index/joe-rogan-watches-2-girls-1-cup.html Joe Rogan Watches 2 Girls 1 Cup Video<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> A reaction video starring a [[Kermit the Frog]] puppet proved very popular on the community-based popularity website [[Digg]].<ref name=clicked>{{cite news|first=Will|last=Femia|title=User Generated Failure|publisher=msnbc's Clicked|url=http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/28/484924.aspx|date=November 28, 2007|accessdate=2007-12-08}}</ref> In January 2008, ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'' magazine documented the reaction video phenomenon with a slideshow featuring various reactions.<ref>{{cite news|first=Michael|last=Agger|title=2 Girls 1 Cup 0 Shame|publisher=Slate Magazine|url=http://www.slate.com/id/2182833/|date=2008-01-31|accessdate=2008-02-16}}</ref> [[Violet Blue (author)|Violet Blue]], an author, described this website as becoming "the new '[[tubgirl]]' and [[goatse]] all in one disgusting moment of choco-poo-love" in a ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' article.<ref>"[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/12/27/violetblue.DTL The top 10 sex memes of 2007 From convictions to hoaxes, Violet Blue looks at 2007's most-clicked items]." ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]''. December 27, 2007. Accessed July 29, 2008.</ref> In the "2guys1podcast" episode of Put It In Your Ears, co-host Gavin St. Ours watches the video after claiming he never will, and his entire reaction is caught on tape.<ref>[http://www.putitinyourears.com/001 The "2guys1podcast" episode of Put It In Your Ears]</ref> "Genuine Nerd" [[Toby Radloff]] was so disgusted by the clip that he had to immediately watch it again.<ref>"[http://www.lurid.com/archives/17 2 Girls 1 Cup 1 Nerd]"</ref> Veteran porn star [[Ron Jeremy]] walked off while watching the video on ''[[The Playhouse (radio show)|The Playhouse]]''.<ref>"[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_V6xwCixLk Ron Jeremy - 2 Girls 1 Cup Reaction]." Playhouse TV. November 16, 2007. Retrieved on September 15, 2009.</ref>


===Parodies===
===Parodies===

Revision as of 00:31, 23 September 2009

Hungry Bitches
Directed byMarco Villanova
StarringKarla and Latifa
Distributed byMFX Media
Release date
2007
Running time
62 minutes (film)
60 seconds (trailer)
Country Brazil

2 Girls 1 Cup is the unofficial nickname of the trailer for Hungry Bitches, a scat-fetish pornographic film produced by MFX Media.[1] The trailer features two women conducting themselves in fetishistic intimate relations, including defecating into a cup, taking turns ostensibly consuming the excrement, and vomiting it into each other's mouths. "Lovers Theme", from Hervé Roy's Romantic Themes, plays throughout.[2][3]

This one-minute trailer is a viral video that became a well-known Internet meme among bloggers and message boards for the reactions its graphic content elicited from viewers who have not seen such films before.[4][5] Around mid-October 2007, video sites such as YouTube were flooded with videos depicting others' reactions to watching the video for the first time.[6]

Origin

The video originated from a Brazilian distributor and filmographer, Marco Fiorito, who describes himself as a "compulsive fetishist".[7] Fiorito originally produced foot fetish videos but soon moved on to coprophagia. The film was produced by MFX Video, one of several companies owned by Fiorito.[7] Fiorito contends his films are legal in Brazil, but authorities in the United States have branded some of his films as obscene and filed charges against Danilo Croce, a Brazilian lawyer living in Florida, listed as an officer of a company distributing Fiorito's films in the United States.[7] Croce accepted a plea bargain and was sentenced to 3 years of unsupervised probation and forfeiture of $98,000.[7] Fiorito said he did not know his films were illegal in the United States and that his films often contained chocolate instead of feces to appease some of his actors who were willing to appear in scat films but not actually eat fecal matter.[7]

The first few seconds of the 2 Girls 1 Cup video contain the text "MFX 1209" (the product code for Hungry Bitches) and the URL mfxvideos.com, the website of Fiorito's MFX Video, leading some in the media to incorrectly believe the video is one of the many Croce had to surrender to the Department of Justice but was somehow leaked in the process.[8][9]

Reception

Reaction videos

Part of what has facilitated 2 Girls 1 Cup's spread are the reactions it causes.[10] Thousands of videos exist on YouTube of users showing the original video (off-camera) to their friends and taping their reactions, although some videos seem to be staged.[4][5][10] Even Joe Rogan, host of Fear Factor, a show notorious for the disgusting things its contestants are forced to eat, had to turn away in a reaction video posted to his blog.[11] A reaction video starring a Kermit the Frog puppet proved very popular on the community-based popularity website Digg.[12] In January 2008, Slate magazine documented the reaction video phenomenon with a slideshow featuring various reactions.[13] Violet Blue, an author, described this website as becoming "the new 'tubgirl' and goatse all in one disgusting moment of choco-poo-love" in a San Francisco Chronicle article.[14] In the "2guys1podcast" episode of Put It In Your Ears, co-host Gavin St. Ours watches the video after claiming he never will, and his entire reaction is caught on tape.[15] "Genuine Nerd" Toby Radloff was so disgusted by the clip that he had to immediately watch it again.[16] Veteran porn star Ron Jeremy walked off while watching the video on The Playhouse.[17]

Parodies

The video has inspired several parodies, such as a short film by singer and comedian John Mayer to his blog entitled "2 Guys 1 Cup" where Mayer and Best Week Ever correspondent Sherrod Small enjoy Pinkberry frozen yogurt in the same manner that the women in the original consumed the feces.[18][19] Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton also made a parody titled "1 Guy 1 Jar", which he posted to YouTube, and began to eat peanut butter out of the jar, obviously in the same way of the original video.[7] Filmmakers Justin Roiland and Christian Le Guilloux made a 5-minute series called "2 Girls, 1 Cup: The Show" for the short film competition site, Channel 101. It debuted in first place on January 27, 2008.[20] Canadian comedian Jon Lajoie also made a song named "2 Girls 1 Cup song", which described the activities in the video as if the two women were expressing their love for each other. The music video was instantly popular, gaining over 7 million views.[21]

Media recognition

Many in the media have taken the video's popularity as a sign of society's declining morals.[4][5][22] The video was featured on VH1's Best Week Ever, where the video's existence and propagation was declared to cause "Moral Bankruptcy" to have the "Best Week Ever!"[23] Esquire magazine showed the video to actor George Clooney during an interview, prompting him to compare it to a rodeo, saying the point of the video was to see "how long you can last".[24]

The video is mentioned during a cutaway of the Family Guy episode "Back to the Woods", where Brian shows the video to Stewie and films his reaction.[25]

The main characters of The Inbetweeners watch it at the beginning of episode 4, series 2.

In episode 105 of Tosh.0, the entire audience is filmed reacting to this video.[26]

In the Law and Order: SVU episode "Babes" (originally airing in 2006), Detective Munch references the video as a sign of society's declining morals. He is comparing it to fictional videos showing the beatings of New York homeless that pertains to a case that the SVU team is working on.

References

  1. ^ MFX - Hungry Bitches - Amsterdam Happy Shop
  2. ^ Tele Music - TMCD1034 Romantic Themes
  3. ^ Top Score Music - TMCD1034 Romantic Themes
  4. ^ a b c Popkin, Helen (November 27, 2007). "The Internet can't replace TV — yet". msnbc.com. Retrieved 2007-12-07.
  5. ^ a b c Amey, Kathryn (December 4, 2007). "POP RHETORIC: Cute with Chris vs 2 girls, 1 cup". The McGill Tribune. Retrieved 2007-12-07.
  6. ^ Longworth, Karina (November 20, 2007). "Karina's Capsule: 2 Girls 1 Cup Reactions". NewTeeVee. Retrieved 2007-12-07.
  7. ^ a b c d e f "2 Girls, 1 Cup: The Real Poop". The Smoking Gun. November 30, 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-07.
  8. ^ Huff, Steve (November 29, 2007). "2 Girls, 1 Former Attorney General". Radar Magazine. Retrieved 2007-12-08.
  9. ^ "Two Girls One Cup: Danilo Simoes Croce". Anorak News. December 1, 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-08.
  10. ^ a b Vox, Dylan (December 10, 2007). "Reactions to Disturbing '2 Girls 1 Cup' Video Flood YouTube". Gay Wired. Retrieved 2007-12-18.[dead link]
  11. ^ Joe Rogan Watches 2 Girls 1 Cup Video
  12. ^ Femia, Will (November 28, 2007). "User Generated Failure". msnbc's Clicked. Retrieved 2007-12-08.
  13. ^ Agger, Michael (2008-01-31). "2 Girls 1 Cup 0 Shame". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 2008-02-16.
  14. ^ "The top 10 sex memes of 2007 From convictions to hoaxes, Violet Blue looks at 2007's most-clicked items." San Francisco Chronicle. December 27, 2007. Accessed July 29, 2008.
  15. ^ The "2guys1podcast" episode of Put It In Your Ears
  16. ^ "2 Girls 1 Cup 1 Nerd"
  17. ^ "Ron Jeremy - 2 Girls 1 Cup Reaction." Playhouse TV. November 16, 2007. Retrieved on September 15, 2009.
  18. ^ Conoley, Ben (November 8, 2007). "John Mayer Enters Food Porn World With "2 Guys 1 Cup"". Chart Attack. Retrieved 2007-12-08.
  19. ^ johnmayer.com
  20. ^ 2 Girls, 1 Cup: The Show
  21. ^ "2 Girls 1 Cup song" by Jon Lajoie
  22. ^ Crosbie, Lynn (2008-03-10). "Unleashing our inner demons, site by sickening site". Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2008-03-16.
  23. ^ Watch Best Week Ever: Full Act 4 | View Original Reality TV Shows | VH1.com
  24. ^ http://www.esquire.com/features/george-clooney-2-girls-1-cup-0408-3
  25. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g06lOfuZZkc
  26. ^ Tosh.0 Blog - 2 Girls 1 Cup: The Biggest Reaction Video Ever!
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