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Hannibal Buress Looking at His Hands refers to a clip from The Eric Andre Show in which actor and comedian Hannibal Buress stares at his hands while the camera shows multiple angles of the action, giving the scene a surreal atmosphere. In 2019, a Twitter user paired footage of the scene with music from the horror film Hereditary, and users began captioning the clip with highly sexualized actions, leading Buress himself to express bewilderment on Twitter.

Origin

The clip comes from the November 21st, 2013 episode of The Eric Andre Show (shown below).^[1]

Spread

On July 27th, 2019, Twitter user @ARIE77E posted the clip set to music from the horror film Hereditary, noting they didn't have an idea for a caption. The tweet gained over 2,600 retweets and 7,600 likes (shown below).

Twitter users began pairing @ARIE77E's tweet with humorous captions. Twitter user @revelcaa tweeted the clip with the caption "Vibrator died so you know what i have to do," gaining over 16,000 retweets and 84,000 likes (shown below, top). User @Jeyonah tweeted "When she cum just from me kissing and fingering her a little," gaining over 40,000 retweets and 175,000 likes (shown below, bottom).

Buress tweeted about both videos, commenting "Why?"^[2] and "What Is This??"^[3] respectively. He also created a t-shirt with the moment on them.^[4]

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