About
#EverybodySpurts, is a hashtag referring to a fad series of short Vine videos, which became a meme in 2013, that started early after the release of the mobile application Vine created by Twitter.
Origin
On February 9, 2013, Marlo Meekins and her husband Nick Cross uploaded both each one Vine video featuring Marlo Meekins turning her head towards the camera and randomly drooling liquid from the mouth while listening to “Everybody Hurts” produced by the American rock band in 1992.
Spread
On February 13, 2013, Lacey Micallef, also known as Fart Palace, has found Marlo’s Vine video since it’s one of the first videos ever uploaded on Vine. In her video, she played the lyrical part Everybody hurts, which can be heard after 2 minutes and 15 seconds of the song. Unfortunately, it has been deleted, but the link can be found in Lacey’s Twitter posts. As of August 2013, her post has been re-tweeted 22 times and favorited 35 times.
everyone http://t.co/vsKd5oNo
— lacey micallef (@laceymicallef) February 13, 2013
On Febraury 14, 2013, Russell Alton, also known as Chop Logik, titled his Vine video “Everybody Spurts (cover of @fartpalace’s cover of @marlomeekins)”. He was inspired by Lacey’s cover to also play the lyrical part she played in the background. For the lulz, he came up to call his Vine “Everybody Spurts”, because the word hurts rhymes with spurts, since he thinks, that Marlo and Lacey were “spurting” out the liquid off their mouths. (right)
Another Vine user named Shaady uploaded his Vine the same day Russell did and imitated Lacey and Russell as well. In addition, he coined the hashtag #everybodyspurts in his video. (left)
After then, other Vine users followed the fad and hash-tagged their videos with #everybodyspurts. Over 100 videos can be found on seenive.com under the hashtag. People find the fad funny and gross at the same time, since the participants wore a Pokerface, drooled the liquid out of the mouth and play the lyrical part of the song in the background in their video for the ridiculously, dramatic and humorous effect, which provokes the viewers a “What the fuck did I just watch?” effect.
On YouTube
The fad grew into a well known meme, when the Fine Brothers released their YouTubers React episode “YOUTUBERSREACT TO VINES (Will Sasso Lemons, EverybodySpurts, Ryan Gosling won’t eat His cereal)” on July 4, 2013 featuring YouTubers also reacting to another popular fad meme on Vine named Ryan Gosling Won’t Eat His Cereal Gosling. As of August 2013, the episode received over 5,3 million views.
On YouTube, people also mimic the fad. As of August 2013, when searching “Everybody Spurts”, YouTube has reached 90 search results.