Confirmed 341,757

IT: CHAPTER 2 WILL FEATURE THE MOST BLOOD USED IN ANY HORROR FILM." HOLD BEER! NO, HOLD MY BEER!

Random Headcanon: That Federation vessels in Ster mek seem to experience biearre mafuncions wih such overwhelming frequency isnt Just an artefact of the selevision serial bunch of deranged hyper-neophes ooling around in ships packed fuil of beyond-cutting-edge lech they dont realy understand. Endlessly frustrating you have to fight them, because they can puill an effectively unilmited number of buǐshit space-magic ournemeasures out of their arses-but theyre as likety as not to gie themsees a ethal ve-dimenional wedgie in the process All h rampant holograms and warp core maituncions and acddentallytraveling-back In-time indidents? That doesn't actualy happen to anyone else;, it's Iterally just Federation wessels that go off the rails ike that. And they do so on a fainty reguar basis format. Rather So to everyone else In the galay all humans are basically Doc Brown COS prokopet Allens who have seen the Back to the Funuve movies Iterally don't realise that Doc Brown is meant to be funny. Teylejst ike "yes, tat & e ady wh all human sciendsts are ke in my eperience ONLY REASON SCOTTY IS CHEF ENGINEER INSTEAD FROM A SPECIES WITH A HIGHER BECAUSE EVERYONE FROOM THOBE SPECIES TOOK ONE LOOK AT THE ENTERPRISE'S ENGINE ROOM AND RAN AWAY SCEAMN lcan sclenoe academy: why do you need another warp core humare we re going to plug two of them together and see H we go bwice as fast tme we gave you go twice a a warp core wouid t ald tho humans t exploded wice as fast l love this. Especialily because of how well it plays with my headoanon tha the Federation does so much better agast the Borg hn rne else because beaing the Bong wth military tacics is nigh-impossble, but beatng them with wacky supersclence shenanigans works as long as they re nique wacky Reminds me of the thing Iwrote a whle back about Humane In highantasy realms-they'e basicaly Team F--- it Hoid My BeerI Got This impulsive, passionate to a taut, the social strucures they build ⑩ ry and reguane ths hoheadedess lonicaly crea even grealer levils of sheer bul headedness Even their "cooler heads take action in months or weeks lltheir great heroes of the past were impossibly rash by galactic standards Humans Just Go With it, which bs ther great faw but aso their greaest srengh kingons; okay we don't get it vulcan sclence academy; get what klingn猷you vulcans ane a bunch ofstumy proses but youre also tougher. tronger, and smarter than humans in every single way vulcan sclence academy look vulcan sclence academy this is a spedes where you give them two wap cores they dont do experiments on one and save the other for i the rst one lcan scienoe academy this is a spedies where it you give them two wap punch a hole ito an atemale unlverse where urons subscbe to an even more destructve ideological system, fight everyone In it because they re ofended by that, steal ther warp oore·plug m000 together, punch their way back here, then try to un a nearby sun o a or because that was what ther Inial sdentfic eoperiment was for and they cidn't want to waste a trip vulcan scence academy: they dd that last week. we have the wrthupr here. Ifs getting published In about ste hundred scienae jounals across two hundred dferere disciplines because of how many estabished theories their idoulous ise expection has just caled into queson aso, they did tum t sun into a lorus, and no one actuay knows how uoan science academy.斻 is wry lot tane do whatver ma hll thay Come to think of it Imean, Look at the Trst human warp drive" thing in the hat was would have done it you know what the be evide for this i7 Deep Space D alnevewr broke down, minor none of the truly welrd s--- that belel Voyager and all the starshipe Enterprise mifuncions that ifated Oeno and back sure DS8 ever had? the senior staff getting trapped hesute character's in Our Mn 8aanr, and rat was because uman decided to just dump the transporter buffer Into the stations core memory and hope everything would work out somehow, which is a bt Ike swapping your computer's hand arve out for a memory card from a PlayStation 2 and expecting to be able to play a game of Spyro the Dragon with your keyboard you know what, Tm not done wih his post.let's talk about the Pegasus he USS F------ Pegasus, lestbed for the fest Stareet cloaking device. here we have a handlul of humans warking in sect to develop a cloaking device i olation of a treaty with the Romulans ery re paying catchup trying to develop a technology other species have had for a century and what do they do? do they decide to duplicane a Romulan doaking device predisely just see if they car, math what other speaks have? nope, theydacile, hey, wile wore whle we'ne building our vey Arst ore of these things, just to find out if this s possible, let's see we can make it thing phete us out of normal tpace to we can fy througn planets whe weve invisible but why" sald the one hat would f------ rula sald the ing cans of 24t-cenury Foed Bu there must be ike twenty dfferent counseling groups for mon-human engineering sudents at Starfieet Academy, and every week in every singie one of them someone males in and stats up wih a story ne "our igment wis lo repair a phaser emiter and my one human cassmate built a chronometric-u toaster that toasts bread ater you've eaten It Humana get mildly offended by thhe way they ae presened in an-human Lke: Guys, we lotaly wouldn't do that Bus this alwas lls to get much tracion, because the authors Gan aways say "You totalily did There's hat movie where humans inveried vaccines by just testing them on people. Or the one about those two humans who Inwented powered fight by crashing a bunch of prototypes Or the one about elecricity nd human historians go, "on, uh, this is historically accurate, but also kind of boring. To which the producers respond "How ls doing THIS CRAZY THING There ase cntre seritses of horror movies where he premise paying atention to the human and ey found the lechnology "No stopped MacGuyver" is the equivalent of Vulcan vintage human homor television roachpatna during orientation at a human college, vuicans ane presened with a ist of swear What ls the word Tuck for, the innoe young vans want to know. sue there are mane logieal Intensity modifiers yeah, youd ink so, say the weary, jaded vuican professors, you'd resly there is a phrase in vulcan for The particularmoment you understand what the word tuck i for This is why he Federation is the anly orpanisation to ever stand a chanoe the Borg The Bong ean adapt 3o the briliant miltary straagies of the Romulan Sta Empre, the Klingons and even the cold logical inellectual prowess of the The Borg wenen't prepared for a starship captain to lure them Into his 50's noir detective holo-novel and then machine gun them to dearh with a weapon made of hard ight

THE USIRANKS 4THIN EDUCATION AND 24TH IN LITERACY IT CANT GET MUCH WORSE "HOLD MY BEER."

I CAN DO THAT HOLD MY BEER AND WATCH THIS

Lance Bradley @Lance_Bradley Pepsi: That was the biggest PR blunder of the week, year maybe. United: Hold my beer. Sean Spicer: LEEEEEEEEEERROOOOOOOY JEEEENNNNNNKINS!

View All 19 Images

About

Hold My Beer is a catchphrase said before attempting a dangerous and/or ill-advised stunt. Online, it is frequently used to categorize Fail videos, as well as to joke about concurrent and similar negative news stories.

Origin

Pre-Internet

"Hold my beer" comes from the saying "hold my beer and watch this," an expression frequently found in jokes about the American south. This is a common example of the joke^[1]:

Q: What is a redneck's last words?
A: Hold my beer and watch this!

A variation of the joke, "Redneck's Last Words" appeared in comedian Jeff Foxworthy's 1996 book No Shirt. No Shoes…No Problem!.^[13]^[14]

The joke has also appeared on t-shirts, novelty signs, and other apparel (shown below).^[4]^[12]

HOLD MY BEER.... AND WATCH THIS! EXPERTS ONLY

Internet

Online, the expression became associated with Fail videos. On September 25th, 2011, YouTuber nitroartvideo.com uploaded a video of a driver revving their car's engine to "Bad to the Bone," crashing their car as soon as they start to drive. The video has received more than 379,000 views.

On September 13th, 2013, Urban Dictionary^[4] definite "Hold my beer" as "he act of giving up one's alcoholic beverage temporarily to attempt a stunt he or she has never ventured."

Spread

On April 18th, 2006,^[2] country singer Aaron Pritchett released the song "Hold My Beer," which features the lyrics: "Hold my beer/While I kiss your girlfriend/Cause she needs a real man, not a boy like you./Hold my beer/Ya, I'm a man on a mission." The video, uploaded on August 8th, 2008 (shown below), has received more than 780,000 views

While not a Fail video, on April 30th, 2008, YouTuber reagane uploaded the video "Hold my beer and watch this in Waco (drag boat)." The video has received more than 21,000 views.

On November 20th, 2012, the /r/holdmybeer^[6] subreddit launched, allowing users to share fail videos. The subreddit has more than 333,500 subscribers.

On April 27th, 2013, the Twitter account @HoldMyBeerGif^[5] launched, tweeting gifs from fail videos. They currently have 343,000 followers.

The meme grew in popularity on Twitter. On June 18th, actress Anna Kendrick tweeted, "'I can do that. Hold my beer' – My last words, probably." The tweet received more than 13,600 retweets and 13,100 likes.

a KendriC @AnnaKendrick47 "I can do that. Hold my beer" - My last words, probably.

After the 2016 United States' Presidential Election, "hold my beer" became a popular saying on Twitter, expressing the opinion of one negative news story topping another. On November 8th, Twitter user @bpedaci tweeted "BRITAIN: Brexit is the stupidest, most self-destructive act a country could undertake. USA: Hold my beer." The tweet received more than 163,000 retweets and 219,800 likes.

Brian Pedací @bpedaci BRITAIN: Brexit is the stupidest, most self- destructive act a country could undertake. USA: Hold my beer.

Between April 6th and April 12th, 2017, several major negative public relations stories, including Kendall Jenner's Pepsi commercial, Nivea's White is Purity ad, the United Airlines passenger removal, and Sean Spicer's Hitler gaffe, prompted a surge in "hold my beer" memes on Twitter. On April 11th, New York magazine published article about the popularity of the meme, entitled "'Hold My Beer': A Meme for a Truly Stupid Week"^[9]

Matt Fuller @MEPFuller Pepsi: Yo check this out! United: LOL hold my beer Spicer: You think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it.

Julianne Helinek @lookitsjulianne Pepsi: We're having the worst PR nightmare ever. United: Hold my beer.

Bradley R Moss, Esq @BradMossEsq Pepsi: How will we get the spotlight off us? United: Hold my Spicer: No no, step aside boys. I've got this.

One of the most popular examples included a reference to Leroy Jenkins. @Lance_Bradley's April 11th tweet^[11] received more than 26,000 retweets and 45,000 likes.

That day, Twitter collected several of these tweets in a Moment.^[10]

Notable Examples

WHAT IFITOLD YOU SOMETHING BAD IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN WHEN SOMEONE SAYS "HOLD MY BEER AND WATCH THIS

HOLD MY BEER On second thought, I'm pretty sure I got this.

Hold My Unicorn

Hold My Unicorn is an online slang expression said in jest as an alternative reading of the acronym “hmu” in lieu of its far more commonly accepted meaning, “hit me up.”

Hold My Flower

Hold My Flower refers to a series of comics based on a Tumblr post featuring Kaomoji emoticons preparing for a fight.

Search Interest

External References

^[1] Unijokes – Joke #11787

^[2] Google Play – Hold My beer

^[3] Look Human – Famous Last Words (Hold My Beer) Tank Top

^[4] Urban Dictionary – Hold My Beer

^[5] Twitter – @HoldMyBeerGifs

^[6] Reddit – /r/HoldMyBeer

^[7] Twitter – @AnnaKendrick47's Tweet

^[8] Twitter @bpedaci's Tweet

^[9] New York – ‘Hold My Beer’: A Meme for a Truly Stupid Week

^[10] Twitter – Pepsi, United & Sean Spicer become the unholy triumvirate of PR disasters

^[11] Twitter – @Lance_Bradley's Tweet

^[12] Signs of the Mountains (via Wayback Machine)- HOLD MY BEER AND WATCH THIS – SKI SIGN

^[13] BarryPopnik.com – Hey y’all, watch this!

^[14] Google Books – No Shirt. No Shoes….No Problem!

Recent Images 19 total

There is no such thing as 3! HALF-LIFE Windows 8 Windows 2.1 Windows Windows indows Gabe&Gates: We can count. odd: Hold my Nuka Cola

View All Images

Recent Videos 1 total

View All Videos

Load 9 Comments

Hold My Beer

PROTIP: Press 'i' to view the image gallery, 'v' to view the video gallery, or 'r' to view a random entry.