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2 Girls 1 Cup is an Internet shock site that became a well known internet meme among bloggers and internet forums for the reactions its graphic content elicited from its viewers.[1][2] The phenomenon started mid-October 2007, when video sites such as YouTube were flooded with videos taping others' reactions to watching the video for the first time.[3]

The video features two women defecating and vomiting into a cup, then taking turns consuming the excrement and vomiting in each others' mouths, eliciting sexual arousal from the acts.

Origin

The video originated from a 36-year-old Brazilian man, named Marco Fiorito, who describes himself as a "compulsive fetishist".[4] 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.[4] 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.[4] Croce accepted a plea bargain and was sentenced to 3 years of unsupervised probation and forfeiture of $98,000.[4] Fiorito claimed 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 actors who were willing to appear in scat films but not actually eat fecal matter.[4]

The first frame in the 2 Girls 1 Cup video has the text "MFX 1209" and includes an URL to mfxvideos.com, the website of Fiorito's MFX-Video, leading some in the media to believe the video is one of the many Croce had to surrender to the Department of Justice but was somehow leaked in the process.[5][6]

Reception

Reactions

Part of what has facilitated 2 Girls 1 Cup's spread is the reactions it causes and the joy others experience watching said reactions. Hundreds of videos exist on YouTube of users showing the original video to their friends and taping their reactions.[1][2] Joe Rogan, host of NBC's Fear Factor, a show notorious for the disgusting things its contestants eat, had to turn away in a reaction video posted to his blog.[7] A reaction video starring Kermit the Frog proved very popular on the community-based popularity website Digg.[8] A reaction video posted by the hip-hop band The Roots has become popular as well.

Parodies

The video has inspired a number parodies. Singer/comedian John Mayer posted to his blog a video entitled "2 Guys 1 Cup" where Mayer and a friend enjoy soft serve in the same manner the women in the original enjoyed the fecal matter.[9][10] Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton made a parody entitled "1 Guy 1 Jar", which he posted to YouTube.[11] Comedian Jon Lajoie made a "love song" based on "2 Girls 1 Cup" which was also posted to YouTube. [12]

Media recognition

Many in the media have taken the video's popularity as a sign of society's declining morals.[1][2] 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!"[13] Alternatively, the blog PervScan attempts to explain the "2 Girls 1 Cup Phenomenon" in terms of Charles Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animal and the Disgust Scale.[14]

References

  1. ^ a b c Popkin, Helen (November 27, 2007). "The Internet can't replace TV — yet". msnbc.com. Retrieved December 7, 2007. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ^ a b c Amey, Kathryn (December 4, 2007). "POP RHETORIC: Cute with Chris vs 2 girls, 1 cup". The McGill Tribune. Retrieved December 7, 2007. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ Longworth, Karina (November 20, 2007). "Karina's Capsule: 2 Girls 1 Cup Reactions". NewTeeVee. Retrieved December 7, 2007. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ a b c d e "2 Girls, 1 Cup: The Real Poop". The Smoking Gun. November 30, 2007. Retrieved December 7, 2007. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ^ Huff, Steve (November 29, 2007). "2 Girls, 1 Former Attorney General". Radar Magazine. Retrieved December 8, 2007. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ^ "Two Girls One Cup: Danilo Simoes Croce". Anorak News. December 1, 2007. Retrieved December 8, 2007. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  7. ^ http://www.break.com/index/joe-rogan-watches-2-girls-1-cup.html
  8. ^ Femia, Will (November 28, 2007). "User Generated Failure". msnbc's Clicked. Retrieved December 8, 2007. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. ^ Conoley, Ben (November 8, 2007). "John Mayer Enters Food Porn World With "2 Guys 1 Cup"". Chart Attack. Retrieved December 8, 2007. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ http://www.johnmayer.com/blog#1560
  11. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emDI2-mFA5s
  12. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxp3zqIqO68
  13. ^ http://www.vh1.com/video/play.jhtml?id=1574705&vid=190222
  14. ^ http://pervscan.com/2007/12/04/the-2-girls-1-cup-phenomenon-part-2/
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