About

RKO Vine Remixes are a series of Vine videos in which an animated sprite image of American professional wrestler Randy Orton performing his signature cutter move "RKO" is edited into various clips of people tripping over or falling down on the ground.

Origin

On May 11th, 2013, Real Madrid of Spanish Primera League and Juventus of Italian Serie A butted heads in their group-stage match at the UEFA Champions League tournament. With only a few minutes remaining in the first half, Juventus' Chilean midfielder Arturo Vidal was granted a penalty kick opportunity after he was seen suddenly falling over to the ground in mid-dribble. Vidal's penalty-earning fall quickly became a talking point of the match as some fans suspected that the Juventus player deliberately dove without any interference from the defense. In the replay footage, however, Vidal is shown tripping over the ball as a result of a misaimed kick at the ground (shown below). The game ended in a tie after Real Madrid caught up with two equalizers (2 – 2).

Over a year later, on October 12th, 2014, Viner Wrestling LAD uploaded a parody version of Vidal's fall with an animated cutout of Orton rushing towards the Juventus player and executing his signature "RKO" cutter move (shown below). Within 48 hours of upload, the video gained over 1,300 revines and 1,200 likes.

Spread

On October 13th, 2014, YouTuber jp oshannassy uploaded a montage of notable RKO Vine videos (shown below).

The same day, Redditor LongAlanIcedT submitted a post requesting RKO Vine remixes to the /r/SquaredCircle^[1] subreddit. Also on October 13th, Viner Cameron/Prohne uploaded a video in which a skater is tackled off a bridge by Orton (shown below). In 24 hours, the video received more than 1,700 revines and 1,500 likes.

On October 14th, Viner Scully1986 uploaded a video of a giraffe being tackled by Orton, garnering upwards of 550 likes and 480 revines in the next three hours (shown below). In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the Vine videos, including SB Nation,^[2] Bleacher Report^[3] and For the Win.^[4]

Notable Examples

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