Mason Troy Adams
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About
Mason Troy Adams or Kid Sprays Security Camera With Hose refers to a viral video where a young boy with a garden hose named Mason Troy Adams is asked by his mother over a security camera to water the plants, followed by Adams spraying the camera with the hose. The video was uploaded to YouTube in March 2021 and gained significant virality on TikTok in early 2022 as people made memes comparing Adams to an untooned version of Bart Simpson.
Origin
The earliest known upload of the Mason Troy Adams video was posted by YouTuber[1] YaBoyMike on March 23rd, 2021, gaining over 5,700 views in a year. In the video, a young boy named Mason Troy Adams is seen through a security camera holding a garden hose. A woman, assumedly his mother, talks to him through the camera and asks him to water the plants for her. He then sprays the camera and she yells, "Mason!" as he continues spraying the camera with water.
Spread
The video was reuploaded by multiple YouTubers[2][3] that year, including Copper Wire and Zinc Wire Gaming and Callameme, the latter gaining over 11,000 views in six months. It was posted to /r/youtubehaiku[4] in December 2021.
On December 14th. Twitter[8] and TikTok[9] user @p0werm3lon posted a version of the video where an untooned drawing of Bart Simpson fades into and across the screen as Adams sprays the camera. On December 20th, TikToker[5] @therealtrisgarr reposted the video, gaining over 22,000 views in three months (shown below). The edit was also posted by now-deleted TikToker @fugalcarp, which was reposted to Instagram[7] a day earlier on the 19th.
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7043788329598504239
On March 9th, 2022, TikToker[6] @pedrofromyfriendpedro posted footage from the mobile skateboarding game True Skate using a board with an image of the realistic Bart Simpson on it, using the audio from the Mason Troy Adams video, gaining over 146,000 views in a week (shown below).
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7073133718809922821
Various Examples
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7072827133143289093
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7074223149398658350
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7073012346364480811
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7057780415272160514
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7043846297677385007
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7074416939589831978
Search Interest
External References
[1] YouTube – Kid Sprays Security Camera with Hose
[2] YouTube – Copper Wire and Zinc Wire Gaming
[4] Reddit – youtubehaiku
[5] TikTok – therealtrisgarr
[6] TikTOk – pedrofromyfriendpedro
[7] Instagram – visionsfromthevvvoid
[8] Twitter – p0werm3lon
[9] TikTok – p0werm3lon