About

NSFW Bowling Animations refers to a series of NSFW and offensive animations that parody stereotypical animations that play at bowling alleys when a player gets a spare, a strike or gutter ball. In early April 2022, one particular animation in which a bowling ball slaps and then ejaculates inside a bowling pin with a strong enough force to send it flying into other pins and knock them down achieved notoriety on social media, with users making memes and jokes referencing it.

Origin

The NSFW Bowling Animations were inspired by the videos that typically play at bowling alleys when a player gets a strike, a spare, a split or misses altogether (example video^[1] shown below). In 2019, a comment made by YouTuber^[2] A Guy (previously Kraken Gaming) inspired the Bowling Alley Screen When You Get a Strike meme format that parodied the animations.

On November 7th, 2021, YouTube^[3] channel Corridor Crew (Corridor Digital) posted a YouTube video titled "We Made Slightly Offensive Bowling Animations" in which they created a series of offensive bowling animations, including animations referencing the Crucifixion of Jesus, Tank Man, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Anakin's slaying of Younglings, the train scene from House of Cards and an animation of a bowling ball overdosing on drugs, among others.

These days the next hot thing is going to be bowling animations. What if we could make our own animations, and, heck, we might even be able to do it a little bit better. But we need to make sure it has some edge that the teams can watch it and think bowling is cool again. And then it got us to thinking, "What if we also made them really offensive?"

On November 8th, 2022, Corridor Digital uploaded the collection of their bowling animations to Instagram,^[16] with the post gaining over 34,000 likes in five months (shown below). Between November 18th and 20th, Corridor Digital also uploaded the animations to their TikTok^[17][18][19] account, where they received up to 6.3 million views each.

On November 14th, 2021, Twitter^[13] user @ExileGrimm shared the Crucifixion of Jesus bowling animation from the video (previously shared by an unknown TikTok account), with the post going viral on Twitter, gaining 3.3 million views, 48,300 retweets and 340,800 likes.

On November 25th, 2021, and April 1st, 2022, animator @wyerframeZ tweeted^[4][5] two NSFW bowling animations in which a bowling ball used the force of its ejaculation to knock down pins (frames from the first animation shown below, top, frames from the second animation shown below, bottom). The posts received over 3,100 retweets and 17,500 likes and over 11,100 retweets and 63,500 likes, respectively.

Spread

In the following days, multiple users on Twitter reposted the GIFs, including reposts by Twitter users @kxnjiwyd,^[6] @sicksadchris^[7] and @RichardSmiiith,^[8] which received over 2,700 likes, 1,300 likes and 7,500 likes, respectively. On April 2nd, 2022, Twitter^[9] user @koryspellz posted a screenshot of @sicksandchris' tweet and another tweet by @beemoviehive warning against watching the GIF, with the post gaining over 9,600 retweets and 120,800 likes in three days (shown below).

Starting on that day, the GIF, which continued to be reposted by various users, achieved notoriety on Twitter and became a subject of discussions, memes and references. For example, on April 2nd, Twitter^[10] user @afroblv made a tweet about the GIF that received over 1,500 retweets and 21,300 likes in three days (shown below, left). On April 3rd, Twitter^[11] user @cornskill made a tweet that gained over 2,700 retweets and 63,600 likes in two days (shown below, right).

On the same day, @cornskill also tweeted^[12] a clip of the Crucifixion of Jesus bowling animation from the Corridor Crew's video, which also received viral spread on Twitter (no longer available; earlier upload shown below).

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— grimm (@ExileGrimm) November 15, 2021

On April 5th, 2022, the Nintendo of Europe Twitter^[14] account posted a clip of the bowling game from Nintendo Switch Sports, which, due to timing of the post, went viral and received multiple replies containing referencing to the GIF, with Twitter^[15] user @0epe6 successfully ratioinng the account with it (shown below).

More Offensive Bowling Animations

On May 1st, 2022, Corridor Crew (Corridor Digital) uploaded^[20] a video titled, "We Made MORE Slightly Offensive Bowling Animations," with seven more offensive animations. The clips included references to Will Smtih Slapping Chris Rock and Don't Go to School Tomorrow memes, as well as a nod to the porn animations by @wyerframeZ, and gained over 579,000 views on YouTube in three days (shown below).

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