Phos at Subway?
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Phos at Subway? refers to a VRChat video made by Yogurt Cap which features the character Phosphophyllite from Houseki no Kuni in a McDonald's world dancing to Tao, Tao . Due to a misunderstanding caused during its spread phase, the video has been associated with Subway rather then McDonald's, originating it's name.
Despite usually being used as a quote alone (both in text, video and GIF formats), Phos at Subway? has ocasionally been depicted in fanart and memes by fans of the Houseki no Kuni series.
Origin
On June 12, 2020. Yogurt Cap posted the original video on their Twitter under the caption: Phos en el Mcdonalds 😳" (spanish for Phos in McDonald's). The video received 144 likes, 39 retweets and 14 comments in approx. 15 minutes.
Later, Yogurt Cap deleted the Tweet in fear of a copyright strike. The amount of time between the posting and removal, as well as the stats of the video prior to removal, are unknown.
Spread
In an unknown date, an unknown russian Twitter user reposted a piece of the video with 萌ジャズ Dreamer
over the original music, as well as the the caption: "Phos at Subway??". This Tweet was later deleted as well.
Said user claimed to not have realized that the video actually took place in McDonald's, therefore writing it as "Subway" instead and originating the quote. Stats for said tweet are unknown as well.
On October 7th, 2020, Twitter user @ToastWtfFTW reposted that user's altered version . As of writing time, this repost has 45 likes, 5 retweets and 2 quote retweets.
On April 20, 2021, Yogurt Cap published an 1:1 ratio version of the original video as both a Tweet and a YouTube Short , now making use of the "Phos at Subway?" quote as their titles. As of writing time, the YouTube short has 36,367 views, 3.1k likes and 249 comments, while the Tweet has 1062 likes, 315 retweets and 19 quote retweets.
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