About

Dank Ass Sandboarding Son is a video remix series using footage of people riding sleds down sand dunes in Namibia, Africa.

Origin

On August 14th, 2008, YouTuber cmd728 uploaded a video titled "Dank ass sandboarding son," feature a montage of various people sledding down large sand dunes, along with the rap song "I Smoke Weed" by Chrome Korleone playing in the background (shown below). Over the next eight years, the video gained over 800,000 views and 500 comments.

Spread

On February 21st, 2014, Motherboard^[1] published an article titled "' Dank Ass Sandboarding Son' Is the Best YouTube Video." Two days later, the original video reached the front page of the /r/videos^[2] subreddit. On February 23rd, 2014, YouTuber CH1CK3NW1NGZ uploaded a montage parody remix of the sandboarding video (since removed).

On January 28th, 2015, Imgur^[3] user innernette0 posted a GIF from the original video with the caption "nice meme" (shown below).

On September 19th, 2015, YouTuber BigEyeGuy uploaded footage of a player sandboarding with a cardboard box from the game Metal Gear Solid 5 titled "MGS5 Dank Ass Sandboarding" (shown below, left). On February 28th, 2016, YouTuber Paul Otis Wiesner uploaded a video titled "Dank Ass Sandboarding Son II," in which a man is shown falling down a sand dune (shown below, right).

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