About

Fart Hand Dryer is a meme trend that has appeared on TikTok and other social media sites in which someone (usually male) will wash their hands in a sink and then turn to someone else (usually male) who will proceed to Fart on their hands to imitate an automatic hand dryer. Starting in mid-2022, the trend began to grow as examples found their way into meme compilations on YouTube in late 2022.

Origin

On August 20th, 2022, the TikToker easyboys4444^[1] uploaded the first Fart Hand Dryer Tiktok to the platform, with additional context and setup being part of the original video, with a blonde man washing his hands before stating that he was going to use the organic hand dryer, referring to his friend. This TikTok would go on to inspire others to use the Fart Hand Dryer bit, with the talking cut from most future examples, while also earning 225 likes in three months (shown below).

Spread

Two weeks later, on September 1st, 2022, the bit would get picked up by the TikToker getrah^[2], who filmed the same joke without the dialogue in his bathroom at home, earning over 850,000 likes in two months and creating an audio format that was used in multiple copycats that followed his example (shown below).

On November 7th, 2022, the YouTube channel ItzHuffy^[3] uploaded a version of the meme in a public bathroom in which the person goes straight from washing their hands to having them farted on, earning over 4,000 views in three weeks (shown below).

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