How Animals Eat Their Food

About

How Animals Eat Their Food is a series of short comedy skits in which the actors humorously depict how different species of animals would feed at a dining table.

Origin

On April 8th, 2013, YouTuber MisterEpicMann^[1] uploaded a video showing two men seated at a table sharing a meal, with one of them performing an interpretive dance to show how different species of animals eat while the other sits quietly, unaffected. In just four days, the video reached 7 million views.^[12] Within the first two weeks, the video accrued nearly 47.5 million views on YouTube and 3.5 million shares on Facebook.^[2]

Spread

The day after it was uploaded, MisterEpicMann's video was shared on the /r/videos subreddit^[3], where it earned 1,941 upvotes and 1,083 points overall. Also on April 9th, the video was featured on College Humor^[4], Tastefully Offensive^[5], Pleated Jeans^[6], Laughing Squid^[7], eBaum’s World^[8] and the Huffington Post.^[9] On April 11th, YouTuber Art The Bird^[10] uploaded the first parody video (shown below, left) featuring re-enactments of how cats, sharks and elephants would eat food at a table, which accrued more than 1.4 million views in 12 days. On April 12th, German comedy troupe Onkel Bernis Welt^[11] uploaded another parody video, using Grumpy Cat, an eagle and a sloth as examples. Within 11 days, this video has been watched more than 2.7 million times.

As more parodies began to pop up on YouTube throughout April, a number of them were featured on Laughing Squid^[13], CollegeHumor^[14], Dorkly^[15] and the Huffington Post.^[16] On April 22nd, Crave Online^[17] compiled a list of 8 of the best parody videos.

Notable Parodies

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