2 Girls 1 Cup

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Hungry Bitches
Directed by Marco Villanova
Starring Karla and Latifa
Distributed by MFX Media
Release date(s) 2007
Running time 62 minutes (film)
60 seconds (trailer)
Country  Brazil
Preceded by Fresh Bodies
Followed by Kinky Anal Breakfast

2 Girls 1 Cup is the title of the trailer for Hungry Bitches, a scat-pornographic film produced by MFX Media.[1] The trailer features two women defecating into a cup, taking turns 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 its viewers.[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]

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Origin

The video originated from a Brazilian, 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

Reactions

Part of what has facilitated 2 Girls 1 Cup's spread are the reactions it causes.[10] Hundreds of videos exist on YouTube of users showing the original video to their friends and taping their reactions.[4][5][10] Even Joe Rogan, host of Fear Factor, a show notorious for the disgusting things its contestants eat, had to turn away in a reaction video posted to his blog.[11] A reaction video starring Kermit the Frog 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 fecal matter.[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 gained an instant popularity, gaining over 3 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."

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.

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. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21940676/. Retrieved on 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. http://media.www.mcgilltribune.com/media/storage/paper234/news/2007/12/04/AE/Pop-Rhetoric.Cute.With.Chris.Vs.2.Girls.1.Cup-3129312.shtml. Retrieved on 2007-12-07. 
  6. ^ Longworth, Karina (November 20, 2007). "Karina’s Capsule: 2 Girls 1 Cup Reactions". NewTeeVee. http://newteevee.com/2007/11/20/karinas-capsule-2-girls-1-cup-reactions/. Retrieved on 2007-12-07. 
  7. ^ a b c d e f "2 Girls, 1 Cup: The Real Poop". The Smoking Gun. November 30, 2007. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/1130071onecup1.html. Retrieved on 2007-12-07. 
  8. ^ Huff, Steve (November 29, 2007). "2 Girls, 1 Former Attorney General". Radar Magazine. http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2007/11/2-girls-1-former-attorney-general.php. Retrieved on 2007-12-08. 
  9. ^ "Two Girls One Cup: Danilo Simoes Croce". Anorak News. December 1, 2007. http://www.anorak.co.uk/twitterings/178072.html. Retrieved on 2007-12-08. 
  10. ^ a b Vox, Dylan (December 10, 2007). "Reactions to Disturbing '2 Girls 1 Cup' Video Flood YouTube". Gay Wired. http://www.gaywired.com/article.cfm?section=66&id=17479. Retrieved on 2007-12-18. 
  11. ^ Joe Rogan Watches 2 Girls 1 Cup Video
  12. ^ Femia, Will (November 28, 2007). "User Generated Failure". msnbc's Clicked. http://clicked.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/11/28/484924.aspx. Retrieved on 2007-12-08. 
  13. ^ Agger, Michael (2008-01-31). "2 Girls 1 Cup 0 Shame". Slate Magazine. http://www.slate.com/id/2182833/. Retrieved on 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" Toby Radloff video
  17. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_V6xwCixLk
  18. ^ Conoley, Ben (November 8, 2007). "John Mayer Enters Food Porn World With "2 Guys 1 Cup"". Chart Attack. http://www.chartattack.com/news/44822/john-mayer-enters-food-porn-world-with-2-guys-1-cup. Retrieved on 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. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080310.crosbie11/BNStory/Front/. Retrieved on 2008-03-16. 
  23. ^ Watch Best Week Ever: Full Act 4 | View Original Reality TV Shows | VH1.com
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