man jumping from the balcony of a motel onto an SUV and falling on the ground

Motel Flood Escape Fail

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Updated Apr 08, 2020 at 01:53AM EDT by Y F.

Added Apr 07, 2020 at 05:02PM EDT by Matt.

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About

Motel Flood Escape Fail refers to a viral video of a man jumping from the second floor of a motel onto a sports utility vehicle, slipping and falling to the ground.

Origin

On April 4th, 2020, Instagram user @prophetamenra posted the video. The post recieved more than 46,000 views and 3,000 likes in less than three days (shown below).



Spread

The following day, they posted the video on Twitter where it received more than 11 million views, 7,400 likes and 2,100 retweets in less than two days (shown below).

Following the post on Twitter, others began sharing the video and commenting on the situation. For example, the Twitter account for the MTV series Ridiculousness tweeted, "this video changed me" (shown below).

Twitter[1] user @QueerioEzra tweeted images from the video with the caption "A tragedy in 4 parts." The tweet received more than 1,500 likes and 170 retweets in less than 24 hours (shown below).



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External References

[1] Twitter – @QueerioEzra's Tweet

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