About

Mr. Bean Sex Jackass refers to a 13-second clip of Mr. Bean dry-humping a hand dryer in the 1997 film Bean. The clip was originally spread via file-sharing services such as Kazaa and Limeware in the early 2000s and was reuploaded to YouTube in 2012. In February 2024, the video was brought to public attention by streamer Vinesauce Joel, gaining popularity as source material for various edits on YouTube.

Origin

Prior to the launch of YouTube, a humorous clip from the 1996 film Bean of the character Mr. Bean, portrayed by British comedian Rowan Atkinson, was spread via file-sharing services such as Kazaa and LimeWire. The clip, titled "Mr Bean Sex Jackass" (with "jackass" used to identify shitpost content), depicted Mr. Bean drying his pants in a museum bathroom, with the process giving the impression that Mr. Bean is dry-humping the hand dryer.

On November 13th. 2012, YouTube^[1] user MaintalPlayer reuploaded the clip to YouTube, where it gained over 183,000 views in 11 years (shown below).

On January 20th, 2024, during a Twitch livestream, streamer Vinesauce Joel reminisced about the video, asking his viewers to recreate it for the next stream. During a future stream, Vinesauce played the original video and several memes based on it created by his followers. On February 4th, 2024, the part of the stream about the video was uploaded to YouTube,^[2] where it received over 54,000 views in two months (shown below).

Spread

Starting on January 20th, 2024, users on YouTube posted edits of the clip. On that day, YouTube^[3] user MrBean Sex posted the earliest found edit of the video, editing it to ""Sandstorm" by Darude":https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/darude-sandstorm. The edit, which was also featured on Vinesauce Joel's stream, garnered over 94,000 views in two months (shown below).

More edits of the clip were shared on YouTube in the following days. For example, on January 21st, YouTube^[4] user Pussy Slayington posted an edit set to "Gangnam Style" that received over 7,300 likes in two months (shown below, left). On January 24th, YouTube^[5] user PepperBytez posted an edit that garnered over 6,800 views in the same period.

The trend continued in January and February 2024 with multiple uploads. YouTube^[6] user Allan Dragdor cataloged the videos in a playlist featuring over 50 submissions.

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