About

Awesome Popcorn Chicken refers to a series of video remixes that feature a jet dropping a bomb on a plate of popcorn chicken as a child cries in anguish for the food.

Origin

On June 17th, 2018, YouTuber Bepis posted a video entitled "Awesome Popcorn Chicken." In the video, a child narrator declares his excitement for a plate of popcorn chicken, when a super-imposed jet flies over the plate and drops an explosive. As the chicken explodes, the child can be heard crying. The post (shown below) received more than 44,000 views in three months.

Spread

On August 29th, Instagram ^[1] user @bepis.man posted a remix of the video, editing the clip into a clip from the Pokémon video game series. The post (shown below) received more than 69,000 views and 9,700 likes in two weeks.

The following day, YouTuber Captain Alexman posted a variation. The post (shown below) received more than 3,700 views in in two weeks.

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