Arnold Schwarzenegger Chasing a Pony on a Bike

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Chasing a Pony on a Bike is a viral video of film actor and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger riding a bike behind a mini-pony. Following its posting, people shared the video, adding captions and jokes about its content.

Origin

On March 21st, 2019, Schwarzenegger posted on TikTok ^[1] the video with the description "Whiskey the mini-pony has a morning fitness routine, too. #likearnold." The post received more than 47,000 reactions, 1,100 comments and 2,500 shares (shown below).

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6670908435300617478

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That day, Schwarzenegger posted the video on Instagram, ^[2] where it received more than 274,000 likes and 1.8 million views.

The following day, Twitter user @joetoenails shared the video on Twitter. The post received more than 16,000 retweets and 54,000 likes in two days (shown below).

Arnold Schwarzenegger's TikTok is sublime pic.twitter.com/7rjZR1gNYO

— Toenails (@joetoenails) March 22, 2019

Others shared their enjoyment of the video. Country music singer Toby Keith, who sings the song "I Should've Been a Cowboy," which plays in the video, tweeted, "Hell yeah!" The post received more than 100 retweets and 650 likes in two days (shown below).

Hell yeah! 😂#repost schwarzenegger</a><br>・・・<br>Whiskey has a morning fitness routine too. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/shouldvebeenacowboy?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#shouldvebeenacowboy</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/tiktok?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#tiktok</a> <a href="https://t.co/fYxFuejh3U">pic.twitter.com/fYxFuejh3U</a></p>— Toby Keith (tobykeith) March 23, 2019

Twitter user @LukeMones tweeted, "Arnold Schwarzenegger is living in my personal heaven and i must accept that." The tweet received more than 3,300 retweets and 18,000 likes in two days (shown below).

Several media outlets covered the video, including The Daily Dot, ^[3] Time,^[4] HuffPost^[5] and more.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is living in my personal heaven and i must accept thatpic.twitter.com/eXv1qKdODj
— Luke Mones (@LukeMones) March 23, 2019

Various Examples

Bad week? Here’s Arnold Schwarzenegger riding a bike alongside a pony. pic.twitter.com/X5GACzj92x

— Jeremy Gibbs (@jeremy_gibbs) March 23, 2019

Arnold Schwarzenegger chasing his miniature pony on a bike is probably the most wholesome thing I’ve seen this month. pic.twitter.com/HbabCt2aqg

— Christian Sorensen (@ChrisSorensen8) March 22, 2019

@Schwarzenegger chasing a small pony on a bike is everything I needed to see to get me through life for the next year pic.twitter.com/W86S1jolql

— Scott Dawson (@Scott_dawson06) March 21, 2019