About

Kid Sipping Fire From Lighter refers to an image of a boy sipping fire from a lit lighter, while another boy excitedly watches in the background. The image is used as an exploitable image labeling format.

Origin

On June 29th, 2018, Toma Cheroso uploaded a video titled "É você satanas?" which translates roughly to, "Is that you Satan?" to YouTube,^[1] in which a kid holds a lit lighter in front of his lips then inhales the fire over a slow motion effect as a second kid watches in excitement (shown below). It's unknown if this video is produced by the channel owner, or a reupload.

Spread

On December 13th, 2019, @akiravstheworld uploaded a still frame from the video of the boy inhaling the fire and the other boy reacting in shock to Twitter^[2] (shown below). This is one of the earliest known instances of the screenshot isolated from the video uploaded to the web.

On April 22nd, 2020, /u/Hugoskd posted a labeled version of the image to /r/PewdiepieSubmissions^[3] referencing the large amount of RAM Google Chrome takes up, garnering over 9,300 upvotes in 9 months (shown below, left). It was reuploaded to /r/pcmasterrace^[4] where it garnered an additional 2,600 upvotes.

On May 9th, a 9GAG user posted a version of the meme to the site, garnering over 3,400 points and 160 comments in 8 months (shown below, right).^[5]

On July 30th, u/thissaccount uploaded the blank image to /r/blursed^[6] images under the title "Blursed Firebender" garnering over 2,100 upvotes in 5 months. On January 28th, 2021, /u/sreenath95 posted a version of the meme referencing Nestle stealing water to /r/dankmemes,^[7] garnering over 10,000 upvotes in 8 hours (shown below).

Various Examples

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