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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}}{{Dead link|date=September 2009|bot=WebCiteBOT}}</ref> Many videos exist on [[YouTube]] of users showing the original video (off-camera) to their friends and filming their reactions, although some videos seem to be staged.<ref name=msnbc /><ref name=McGill /><ref name=gay /> Even [[Joe Rogan]], past 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]]'' 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 film.<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://blip.tv/file/3470260 2 Girls 1 Cup 1 Nerd]". Accessed 2009-09-22. [http://www.webcitation.org/5k4G0KSj6 Archived] 2009-09-25.</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> Singer [[Wyclef Jean]] sat through the whole thing without looking away on ''[[The Playhouse (radio show)|The Playhouse]]'' &mdash; while eating.<ref>"[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBPMJ3ATeCo Wyclef Jean 2 Girls 1 Cup Reaction]." Playhouse TV</ref> [[Ace Frehley]], formerly of [[Kiss (band)|KISS]], was shown the video on [[The Opie and Anthony Show]] in July 2009, and was unfazed, declaring, "Crazier things than that have happened on the road."<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQrx11giO9w&feature=player_embedded</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> Many videos exist on [[YouTube]] of users showing the original video (off-camera) to their friends and filming their reactions, although some videos seem to be staged.<ref name=msnbc /><ref name=McGill /><ref name=gay /> Even [[Joe Rogan]], past 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]]'' 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 film.<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.youtube.com/watch?v=T9j27i16a98 2 Girls 1 Cup 1 Nerd]". Accessed 2009-09-22. [http://www.webcitation.org/5k4G0KSj6 Archived] 2009-09-25.</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> Singer [[Wyclef Jean]] sat through the whole thing without looking away on ''[[The Playhouse (radio show)|The Playhouse]]'' &mdash; while eating.<ref>"[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBPMJ3ATeCo Wyclef Jean 2 Girls 1 Cup Reaction]." Playhouse TV</ref> [[Ace Frehley]], formerly of [[Kiss (band)|KISS]], was shown the video on [[The Opie and Anthony Show]] in July 2009, and was unfazed, declaring, "Crazier things than that have happened on the road."<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQrx11giO9w&feature=player_embedded</ref>


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

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Hungry Bitches
Directed byMarco Villanova
Produced byMFX Media
StarringKarla and Latifa
(stage names)
Music byHervé Roy
Distributed byMarco Fiorito
Release date
Summer 2007
Running time
62 minutes (film)
60 seconds (trailer)
Country Brazil
LanguagePortuguese

2 Girls 1 Cup is the unofficial nickname of the trailer for Hungry Bitches, a 2007 Brazilian 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" by Hervé Roy, from the movie La folie des grandeurs, plays throughout.[2][3]

This one-minute preview 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".[1] 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.[1] 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.[1] Croce accepted a plea bargain and was sentenced to three years of unsupervised probation and forfeiture of $98,000.[1] 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.[1]

The first few seconds of the 2 Girls 1 Cup video contain the text "MFX 1209" (the production 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.[7][8]

Reception

Reaction videos

Part of what has facilitated 2 Girls 1 Cup's spread are the reactions it causes.[9] Many videos exist on YouTube of users showing the original video (off-camera) to their friends and filming their reactions, although some videos seem to be staged.[4][5][9] Even Joe Rogan, past 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.[10] A reaction video starring a Kermit the Frog puppet proved very popular on the community-based popularity website Digg.[11] In January 2008, Slate documented the reaction video phenomenon with a slideshow featuring various reactions.[12] 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.[13] 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 film.[14] "Genuine Nerd" Toby Radloff was so disgusted by the clip that he had to immediately watch it again.[15] Veteran porn star Ron Jeremy walked off while watching the video on The Playhouse.[16] Singer Wyclef Jean sat through the whole thing without looking away on The Playhouse — while eating.[17] Ace Frehley, formerly of KISS, was shown the video on The Opie and Anthony Show in July 2009, and was unfazed, declaring, "Crazier things than that have happened on the road."[18]

Parodies

A short film by singer 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.[19][20] 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, in the same style as the original video.[1] Filmmakers Justin Roiland and Christian Le Guilloux made a five-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.[21] Brandon Hardesty posted a video called 1 guy 1 lunchable, in which he eats the "taco filling" from a Mini-Taco Lunchable.[22] 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 8 million views on YouTube.[23]

Media recognition

In the media the video has been used as an example of the poor content quality of YouTube and similar video-sharing websites, and their tendency towards deliberately shocking content.[4][5][24] 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!"[25] 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".[26]

The video is mentioned during a cutaway gag in the Family Guy episode "Back to the Woods", where Brian shows the video to Stewie and films his reaction. Despite his initial revulsion, Stewie decides to search for a possible male alternative.[27]

An Xbox 360 Achievement and a Playstation 3 Trophy called "2 Guys, 1 co-op" can be unlocked by the player in a Downloadable Content called "Outlaws to The End" for Red Dead Redemption.

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

Xbox 360 and Games for Windows achievements and a Playstation 3 Trophy called "2 cups 1 girl" can be unlocked by the player in Codemasters' Racing title Colin McRae: Dirt 2.

In an episode of Tosh.0, the entire audience is filmed reacting to this video.[28]

In the Law and Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Babes" (originally airing in 2008), fictional Detective John Munch (Richard Belzer) references the video as a sign of society's declining morals. He is comparing it to videos showing homeless people being beaten up that pertains to a case that the Special Victims Unit is working on.

The Toronto Star's blog covering the 2010 World Cup, with content provided by the paper's writers Cathal Kelly and Chris Young is titled "Two Guys, One Cup".[29]

In an episode of Robot Chicken, a man shows a video called " 2 berries 1 cup".

The track "Nympho" by dubstep artist Borgore features the line, "She likes to fuck all day, She never stops, You'll be the two girls she'll be the cup"

The site was featured in a Dr. Pepper Facebook promotion open to minors,[30] which resulted in The Coca-Cola Company terminating its relationship with the digital marketing agency responsible.[31] Jim Edwards of BNET said that Coca Cola has full responsibility for allowing the situation to occur, arguing that Coca-Cola selected an advertising agency that openly advertised "profane" advertising campaigns and that the Coca-Cola executive who approved the 2 Girls 1 Cup line failed to do research on what the name meant.[32]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "2 Girls, 1 Cup: The Real Poop". The Smoking Gun. November 30, 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-07.
  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. ^ Huff, Steve (November 29, 2007). "2 Girls, 1 Former Attorney General". Radar Magazine. Retrieved 2007-12-08.
  8. ^ "Two Girls One Cup: Danilo Simoes Croce". Anorak News. December 1, 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-08.
  9. ^ 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]
  10. ^ Joe Rogan Watches 2 Girls 1 Cup Video
  11. ^ Femia, Will (November 28, 2007). "User Generated Failure". msnbc's Clicked. Retrieved 2007-12-08.
  12. ^ Agger, Michael (2008-01-31). "2 Girls 1 Cup 0 Shame". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 2008-02-16.
  13. ^ "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.
  14. ^ The "2guys1podcast" episode of Put It In Your Ears
  15. ^ "2 Girls 1 Cup 1 Nerd". Accessed 2009-09-22. Archived 2009-09-25.
  16. ^ "Ron Jeremy - 2 Girls 1 Cup Reaction." Playhouse TV. November 16, 2007. Retrieved on September 15, 2009
  17. ^ "Wyclef Jean 2 Girls 1 Cup Reaction." Playhouse TV
  18. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQrx11giO9w&feature=player_embedded
  19. ^ Conoley, Ben (November 8, 2007). "John Mayer Enters Food Porn World With "2 Guys 1 Cup"". Chart Attack. Retrieved 2007-12-08.
  20. ^ johnmayer.com
  21. ^ 2 Girls, 1 Cup: The Show
  22. ^ 1 guy 1 lunchable by Brandon Hardesty
  23. ^ "2 Girls 1 Cup song" by Jon Lajoie
  24. ^ Crosbie, Lynn (2008-03-10). "Unleashing our inner demons, site by sickening site". Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2008-03-16.
  25. ^ Watch Best Week Ever: Full Act 4 View Original Reality TV Shows | VH1.com
  26. ^ George Clooney Watches 2 Girls 1 Cup - Esquire
  27. ^ "Stewie's Reaction to 2 Girls 1 Cup (flv video) free file download at fliiby.com". Archived from the original on 2009-10-07. Retrieved 2009-10-03. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  28. ^ Tosh.0 Blog - 2 Girls 1 Cup: The Biggest Reaction Video Ever!
  29. ^ Toronto Star 2010 World Cup Blog - Two Guys, One Cup
  30. ^ Dodd, Vikram. "Coca-Cola forced to pull Facebook promotion after porn references." The Guardian. Sunday July 18, 2010. Retrieved on August 25, 2010.
  31. ^ Shearman, Sarah. "Coca-Cola and Lean Mean split after Facebook gaffe." Marketing Magazine. July 27, 2010. Retrieved on August 25, 2010.
  32. ^ Edwards, Jim. "Why Coke Should Have Known Its “2 Girls 1 Cup” Campaign for Dr Pepper Was a Disaster Waiting to Happen." BNet. July 21, 2010. Retrieved on August 27, 2010.
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