Our Entire Generation Watched This Video
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About
Our Entire Generation Watched This Video and If You Ever Watched This Video are two catchphrases commonly used in a series of The Joke Is Porn engagement bait social media posts that involve a user posting a SFW frame from a famous pornographic video, usually from those which were posted in the early 2010s. The trend achieved popularity on X / Twitter in late 2023.
Origin
On November 7th, 2023, X[1] / Twitter account @huntercantmiss posted a still image from a popular pornographic video, commenting, "I’m convinced that everyone watched this video growing up." The post (shown below) received over 1,800 reposts and 59,000 likes in two months.
Spread
On November 8th, 2023, X[2] user @flvckojamie made a similar post, this time posting a frame Jayla Foxx's Popeyes Video. The post (shown below) received over 1,300 reposts and 13,000 likes in two months.
The engagement bait trend achieved virality on X in December 2023, after X user @fluxszn made another post on December 2nd, 2023, captioned, "I’m convinced our entire generation has seen this video…💀" The post (shown below) received over 3,300 reposts and 89,000 likes in three weeks.
Through December 2023, multiple similar posts using bait captions, such as "Our entire generation has seen this video" and "If you ever watched either of these videos you are the definition of down bad," saw viral spread on X / Twitter, with the trend later inspiring parodies and joke references.
Related Memes
The Joke Is Porn
The Joke Is Porn or The Punchline Is Porn refers to a series of image macros and videos used as reaction images that mock memes that reference pornography or incorporate cropped porn, such as Italian Tifa and NSFW Bowling Animations. The format was spawned by a That's It? That Was the Lost Episode meme and achieved viral status after Ankha Zone memes trended in September 2021.
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1] X – @huntercantmiss
[2] X – @flvckojamie