In The Deer 2nite

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About

In The Deer 2nite is the title of a viral video of a deer walking into a child's play set as the Phil Collins song "In the Air Tonight." As the deer walks through the small fortress, the sound of the animal's hooves struggling over the solid appears to sync with the song's infamous drum solo.

Origin

On October 1st, 2018, YouTuber Josh Ballico published the video "in the deer 2nite" on YouTube. The post received more than 979,000 views in three days.

Spread

That day, Redditor ^[1] daneelr_olivaw posted the video in the /r/videos subreddit. The post received more than 12,000 points (94% upvoted) and 240 comments in three days.

Throughout the day, people continued to share the video on various social media website. On October 1st, Twitter ^[2] user @StanLewis_ tweeted, "This is the greatest thing I've ever seen." The post received more than 19,000 retweets and 47,000 likes (shown below, left). Others shared their enjoyment of the video over the next few days (examples below, center and right).