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Phil Swift Checks the Window refers to a video of Flex Seal Products spokesperon Phil Swift looking outside of an airplane window during a trip. On Instagram, the video gained popularity in meme remixes, with landscape outside the window usually replaced with other footage.

Origin

On February 22nd, 2019, Flex Tape Products spokesperson Phil Swift uploaded an Instagram^[1] vlog of himself taking an air trip to West Coast. In the video, he gets up from his seat, turns around and shows the landscape outside the window. The post gained over 210,000 views in one week.

Yo, what's up, Flex fans! Looks like we're off to West Coast to find some more leaks! Let's see what we can find! Aww, sweet! Alright, be back later. Flex off!

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On February 24th, 2019, Instagram^[2] user toucher_of_cancer uploaded a meme remix based on the video (shown below). The post gained over 90,700 views in five days. Additionally, toucher_of_cancer uploaded a green screen version of the video to their backup account.^[3]

In the following days, Instagram users created more versions of the meme, with notable examples made by largetrap^[4], retry.mp4^[5] and memedealer.dan^[6].

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