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Bear Trap Punch is an image macro series featuring screen captured images taken from a video in which a man punches a bear trap and pulls his hand out fast enough to avoid being injured. Online, the images are often captioned with humorous scenarios involving narrowly avoiding various romantic catastrophes.

Origin

On January 30th, 2015, YouTuber BrandosonR uploaded a video titled "Man punches a bear trap! Amazing!", featuring footage of an elderly man quickly punching a bear trap and removing his hand before it snaps shut (shown below). Within three years, the video gained over 666,000 views and 99 comments.

On August 19th, 2017, Redditor Settledownsir submitted an image macro featuring juxtaposed screen captures from the video before and after punching the trap, captioned with the mock dialogue "you: what's your snap? / her: I'm 15 btw" to /r/MemeEconomy^[3] (shown below). Within four days, the post received upwards of 26,100 points (90% upvoted) and 300 comments.

Spread

On August 19th, 2017, Redditor robertwalling submitted a captioned version of the image in which a woman says "I like memes" before saying "like the dancing hot dog" to /r/dankmemes^[1] (shown below). Within 72 hours, the post gained over 2,7800 points (96% upvoted). The following day, Redditor Sumojoe118 posted a variation joking about avoiding a woman who wants to have sex before marriage to /r/dankmemes^[2] (shown below, right). Also on August 20th, Redditor midori_kobayashi submitted a post asking about the background story to the image macro series to /r/OutOfTheLoop.^[4]

Various Examples

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