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Fried Rice Prank refers to an image of YouTuber Kanta of the MTV Tokyo fried rice guys pulling a prank wherein it appears as though he's making a giant wave of fried rice. After the prank was posted to Twitter, users there started a photoshop battle based on the image.

Origin

On January 19th, 2019, YouTube channel MTV Tokyo fried rice guys posted a video in which YouTuber Kanta pulls a prank wherein he appears to make a giant wave of fried rice using an artificial prop. The video gained over 5.5 million views (shown below).

Spread

On January 22nd, 2019, Twitter user @YS_Bomb11^[1] tweeted the video's thumbnail, saying "What a pic," gaining over 40,000 retweets and 180,000 likes (shown below).

The popularity of the tweet inspired other Twitter users to photoshop the image. Several Twitter users photoshopped the picture to reference ‎Katsushika Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Kanagawa." Twitter user @royojo photoshopped the wave into the picture, gaining over 1,100 retweets and 7,800 likes (shown below, left). User @bettinamak did the inverse, photoshopping the thumbnail into the painting, gaining over 1,700 retweets and 8,300 likes (shown below, right).

Other variations include a Waves Hairstyle Photoshop by user @Panini_Bread that gained over 2,000 retweets and 9,000 likes (shown below, left). User @_eigenheit posted a Sasuke Choke Edit that gained over 70 retweets and 220 likes (shown below, right). The jokes were covered by Mashable.^[2]

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