
We logged on just to collectively recoil at the very worst of what we found. In 2007, the web was at an inflection point - where streaming content met social media - and the frontiers of this new world were strange, gross and exhilarating. And perhaps more surprisingly, it brought us together. That the two of them go on to make out, rubbing their shit-smeared faces together, finally taking turns vomiting the shit back into the cup as well as into each other’s mouths.Īnd that, oh right, there’s no good reason for anybody to watch that shit.īut watch it we did. That this woman then messily licks and sucks on her own whipped shit with another woman. That the video itself depicts one woman defecating into a cup, in a manner frequently compared to that of a soft-serve ice cream machine. That even among jaded millennials my age, some managed to avoid it.

I have to remind myself that this extreme fetish video went viral a decade ago, when phones were dumb, Myspace had more users than Facebook and Generation Z was about to plug in. Have a look at this reaction compilation, which will inevitably take you back to that dorm room or friend's basement or wherever you experienced "2 Girls 1 Cup" for the first time:Ģ Girls 1 Cup Analysis Using Medians from Paul Shen on Vimeo.What shocks me most about the scatological porn known as 2 Girls 1 Cup in the cruel year of our lord 2017 is that not everyone on the internet has seen it. The report, which detailed all of these findings, was later pulled from the Web, presumably because the computer scientist became tired of explaining in job interviews why erotic vomiting was showing up at the top of his Google searches. From the look of his line graphs, there seemed to be a fairly steady stream of flailing throughout the entire viewing experience, with a few notable upticks in the first quarter of the video.

He wanted to measure the "optical flow" - the amount of movement in the video (flailing, cowering in fear, etc.) - to pinpoint the most gut-wrenching moment of the entire film. He aggregated 20 of the most popular "2 Girls 1 Cup" reaction videos (yes, there were manyto choose from) and made a science experiment out of it. In April of 2010, a computer scientist by the name of Paul Shen decided to breathe new life into the viral video.
