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Antonio Brown's Karate Kick is a video remix and photoshop meme featuring footage of Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Antonio Brown delivering a kick to the head of Cleveland Browns punter Spencer Lanning.

Origin

During the Pittsburgh Steelers football game against the Cleveland Browns on September 7th, 2014, Antonio Brown kicked Spencer Lanning in the face while trying to jump over the Browns punter. Immediately after, photographs and videos of the incident began spreading on various social media platforms (shown below).

That day, the @NFL_Memes Twitter feed posted a photoshopped image featuring Brown kicking Lanning in a pit from a scene in the 2007 fantasy war film 300 (shown below).^[3]

Spread

Immediately following the game, Lanning posted a photo of the kick in a tweet asking "when did this happen?"^[1]

The same day, the Benstonium.com YouTube channel posted a parody video featuring Brown's kick edited together with a scene from the 1984 martial arts film The Karate Kid (shown below). In the first 24 hours, the video gained over 200,000 views and 70 comments.

That evening, Brown tweeted that he did not intend to hurt Lanning but that he appreciated the photoshops of the incident.^[2]

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