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Staten Harry Video refers to a clip of Twitter user and Lady Gaga super fan @StatenHarry enthusiastically thanking several people after lip-syncing to "Telephone" by Lady Gaga. The video was paired with different humorous captions after it was posted.

Origin

On August 23rd, 2018, Twitter^[3] user @StatenHarry posted a video of himself lip-syncing to Lady Gaga's "Telephone." After he's finished lip-syncing, he goes on to thank several people and express his love for them. The video gained 1,600 retweets and 7,800 likes (reposts shown below).

Spread

The end of the video in which Staten Harry thanks people was isolated and tweeted by user @PatchNavillus the following day, who paired it with the caption "me getting out of an UberPool." The tweet gained over 8,000 retweets and 28,000 likes (shown below).

After that tweet spread, several other parodies were posted using the clip. Other popular examples include a tweet by @fkajack that gained over 73,000 retweets and 204,000 likes (shown below, top) and a tweet by @labreacock of another Staten Harry clip that gained over 42,000 retweets and 126,000 likes (shown below, bottom).

Staten Harry's popularity and the memes using his content was covered by Popbuzz^[1] and Daily Mail.^[2]

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