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Throwing a Microwaved Honey Bun at a Homeless Man refers to a series of ironic memes, primarily TikTok videos, which describe microwaving a honey bun for five to 10 minutes and throwing it at a homeless person in order to burn their skin. The videos were popularized on TikTok in October 2023 and often feature captions about throwing the honey buns over reaction videos or images meant to represent the homeless person, with TikToker @hoop.angel posting one of the earliest examples.

Origin

On May 24th, 2022, X,^[1] formerly Twitter, user @dxnttpxpittxme posted, "I really wanna warm a honey bun up for 10 mins and throw it on this nigga back so bad," elaborating that it would be boiling and sticky in the comments, thus causing significant damage to the skin, garnering over 36,000 likes in a year (shown below). It is possible, yet unconfirmed, that this post inspired the 2023 TikTok meme.

On October 11th, 2023, TikToker @hoop.angel posted a meme about throwing a 100 degree honey bun at a homeless man, although not specifically mentioning that it was microwavd, garnering over 2.2 million views in a month (shown below, left).

On October 15th, 2023, TikToker^[2] @mxnnysburner posted a video of a hunting dog barking up a tree captioned, "The homeless man screaming after slap the honey bun I microwaved for 10 minutes on his face," garnering over 888,000 views in two weeks (shown below, right).

Spread

Memes about microwaving honey buns to throw at homeless people or others spread throughout October 2023. On October 19th, 2023, TikToker^[3] @datboi_ttk posted a video about microwaving a honey bun to throw at his friend's chest, garnering over 3.5 million views in two weeks (shown below, left). On October 21st, TikToker^[4] @brockward_ posted another version of the meme featuring a hunting dog clip, garnering over 100,000 views in 10 days (shown below, right).

On October 27th, TikToker^[5] @itz_boozie781 posted a version of the meme that gained over 2.5 million views in four days (shown below, left). On October 28th, TikToker^[6] @will.beisner posted a video showing themselves microwaving a honey bun, captioned, "To all the homeless people out there consider yourselves hunted," garnering over 6 million views in three days (shown below, right).

On October 30th, TikToker^[7] @vnlfxn375 posted a video expressing concerns that people might actually throw microwaved honey buns at homeless people because of the meme, garnering over 100,000 views in under 24 hours (shown below).

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