About

I Edited a Peppa Pig Episode is a video remix series in which episodes of the British animated series Peppa Pig are arbitrarily manipulated for humorous effect.

Origin

On July 28th, 2019, YouTuber Steph Inc. published the video "I edited a peppa pig episode cause I didn't know what else to post." In the video, the YouTuber explains that they "overly" edited an episode because "Peppa Pig" was trending. In the video, actions and sounds are accentuated by a variety of effects, including animations of explosions and pop music. Within two most, the post received more than 1.3 million views (shown below).

Precursor

While Steph Inc.'s video launched the meme, the earliest known usage of the phrase "I edited a Peppa Pig episode" was posted on October 9th, 2017 by YouTuber dom and Gio Productions. The video follows a similar idea as the Steph Inc. video, meaning that an episode of the series is arbitrarily edited for comedy. Within two years, the video received more than 1,000 views (shown below).

Spread

Following the release and spread of Steph Inc.'s video, others began posting other re-edits of the show. For example, on August 21st, YouTuber Samuel Kemp shared a variation entitled "i edited a peppa pig episode for fun." The post received more than 4 million views in less than one month (shown below, left).

A little over a week later, on August 31st, YouTuber Lour Drick Valsote shared "I Edited a Peppa Pig Episode for Fun (and for a School Project)." The video received more than 800,000 views in less than two weeks (shown below, right).

That day, YouTuber Steph Inc posted another video entitled "I edited a peppa pig episode cause I didn't know what else to post (part 2)." Within two weeks, the post received more than 2.2 million views.

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