Don't Ever Buy No Weed From The Gas Station Bro

About

Don't Ever Buy No Weed From The Gas Station Bro refers to a 2018 video in which a man uses a filter to appear as if his eyes are uneven, claiming that smoking "gas station weed" is at fault and warning viewers against partaking in it. The video went viral in the years following, resulting in a number of remixes, posts and memes referencing it where it was used as a catchphrase.

Origin

On June 20th, 2018, YouTuber^[1] Brit Miller uploaded a video recorded from her phone screen showing a since-deleted video from the Instagram page @dirtyglovebastard in which a man with one eye higher up than the other tells viewers they should never buy weed from the gas station, claiming that it was the reason for his malformed eyes. The Instagram post gained over 109,000 views in an unknown span of time. The same day, YouTuber^[2] The Diss King uploaded a cropped version of the video, garnering over 11,000 views in three years (shown below).

Don't never buy no weed from the gas station, bro. If the nigga ain't in your contacts, don't ever go to the gas station, bro. I went up there at 11 o'clock last night trynna get me some weed. Bro, I smoked that shit, woke up, my motherfucking eye was right here and my other eye is still right here. Explain, bro. I gotta go look for this nigga bro, what the fuck did you sell me, bro? Look at me, bro, I'm hideous.

A filter was used to make the man's eyes appear uneven. The video was reposted a number of times to YouTube and Instagram. On June 30th, YouTuber^[3] lol™ posted the video, garnering over 317,000 views in three years.

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On July 24th, 2018, YouTuber^[4] brooke / bcxvie uploaded the video, garnering over 1.1 million views in three years.

The video inspired a number of remixes and edits following its viral success. For example, on August 15th, Instagram^[5] user @shitstainedcumrag posted a Super Smash Bros. 4 Character Announcement Parody edit of the video, which was uploaded by YouTuber Willie Stroker that day, garnering over 33,000 views in three years (shown below).

On December 30th, Redditor u/ohpee8 posted the video to /r/youtubehaiku,^[6] garnering over 1,800 upvotes in two years.

On February 9th, 2019, Instagram^[7] user @trillingy uploaded a video in which it appears as if the flounder with uneven eyes from SpongeBob Squarepants is speaking the dialogue from the video, garnering over 19,500 views in two years (shown below, left). On May 7th, Instagram^[8] user @timtam60.mp5 posted a 21st Century Humor edit of the video, garnering over 51,000 views in two years (shown below, right).

On July 19th, 2020, Instagram^[9] user @cheemsitz posted an image macro featuring Cheems referencing the video, garnering over 11,000 likes in nine months (shown below).

On December 1st, YouTuber^[10] 1887 posted an edit using the audio clip from the video, garnering over 34,000 views in four months (shown below).

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