About

Rolling Lemon is a viral video of a lemon rolling down the gutter of a suburban street. The video received numerous reactions online, where people described the video as inexplicably captivating.

Origin

On July 11th, 2018, Twitter ^[1] user @sakeriver tweeted a video of a large lemon rolling down the road. They captioned the video, "Today as I was walking home after my run I saw a large lemon rolling down the hill. It kept rolling for about a quarter mile. And now you can see it, too." Within two days, the post (shown below) received more than 87,000 retweets, 293,000 likes and 6.86 million views.

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Following the post, some online reacted positively to the video, describing it as engrossing. Twitter^[2] user @darth tweeted, "no i am not going to sit here and watch a lemon roll down a wow where did the time go." The post (shown below, left) received more than 800 retweets and 4,700 likes in two days.

Throughout the day, more users shared the video and the sentiment.

Several media outlets covered the popularity of the video, including The Daily Dot, ^[3] The Washington Post,^[4] Today,^[5] ABC,^[6] Slate^[7] and more.

On July 12th, Twitter^[8] published a Moments page regarding the reaction to the video.

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