About

Muvvafukka refers to a viral video of two teenage girls, Jay-lee Hilzinger and Maddie Flynn, having a tantrum in Australian department store David Jones. Quotes from the video, as well as a face Hilzinger made in the video, have been parodied in memes in Australian areas of the internet.

Origin

While it appears the original video is deleted, it appears to have been first posted to Facebook on October 20th, 2019. The person holding the camera says its "a Sunday," indicating the likely date the tantrum was filmed was Sunday, October 20th. A screen-capture of the video when it was live on Facebook was posted to YouTube by user Frazzle Tazz on the 21st.^[1] The screen capture is taken from a video posted by Facebook user Caiden Butler. Butler has also posted the video to YouTube (shown below).

Butler also made a screenshot of Hilzinger's face in the video his cover photo on the 20th.^[2] The face (shown below), would be used in future photoshop memes.

Spread

After the video grew popular on Facebook and YouTube, Australian internet users began joking about it with various memes. YouTuber Simbra edited clips of the two girls into a commercial for Zinger burgers, making a pun on Hilzinger's name, gaining over 5,700 views (shown below, left). User Declan made a video in which Sir David Attenborough's Planet Earth narration plays over the clip (shown below, right).

The video was also the source of dozens of photoshops, many of which used the face Butler screenshot for his cover photo. Facebook user Daniel Sanders^[3] posted a collection of photoshops, gaining over 1,400 reactions (examples shown below).

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