About
Will Sasso’s Lemon Vines are Vine videos in which Canadian actor and comedian Will Sasso[1] is shown completing a normal activity before surprisingly spitting out a lemon.
Origin
Sasso uploaded his first lemon Vine titled “Facing personal challenges head-on.” on February 19, 2013, depicting him looking at the fruits displayed in the grocery store. After returning to his car with a bag of lemons, he is shown spitting one out of his mouth seemingly out of nowhere. As of August 2013, he has uploaded multiple other videos of this nature, however lemons are not always present prior to his final spit.
Spread
On February 27th, one of Sasso’s lemon videos was chosen as a Vine Editor’s Pick.[4] As early as March 3rd, other comedians on the site began to parody these vines including Adam Goldberg[2] and James Urbaniak.[3] On March 5th, entertainment blog Splitsider[5] declared the lemon videos Vine’s first meme. Also in early March, Sasso’s lemon Vines were featured on Animal NY[6] and Vulture.[7] On March 19th, YouTuber Alex Davidson uploaded a compilation video featuring a montage of Sasso’s lemon Vines, which has accrued more than 4.7 million views as of August 2013.
The compilation was reposted to CollegeHumor[8] the following day before being shared on the /r/Videos subreddit[9] on March 21st, where it gained 16,269 upvotes, 2,481 points overall and 936 comments before being archived. Over the next two days, the video was shared on Viral Viral Videos[10], Gawker[11], WebProNews[12], The Huffington Post[13] and Laughing Squid.[14] On April 3rd, 2013, Cartoon Network uploaded a parody video of Sasso’s vines featuring the Adventure Time character Earl of Lemongrab (shown below, left) appearing as both the lemons Sasso spits out and Sasso himself. Three months later, on July 4th, the lemon Vines were featured in an episode of YouTubers React by The Fine Brothers (shown below, right).
Notable Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1]Twitter – @WillSasso
[2]Vine – Adam Goldberg: Random Word Vine #4
[3]Vine – James Urbaniak: The Evil Motif
[4]Twitter – @WillSasso: Vine made this video an Editor’s Pick.
[5]Splitsider – The Vine 5 Film Festival: Lemon Party
[6]Animal NY – The People You Need to Folow on Vine
[7]Vulture – More Than Just Cats: 14 Clever Six-Second Vine Movies
[8]College Humor – Will Sasso Vine Compilation: Lemons
[10]Viral Viral Videos – Will Sasso’s Crazy Lemon Videos On Vine Compilation
[11]Gawker – Will Sasso’s Lemon Skits Single-Handedly Justify Vine’s Entire Existence
[12]Web Pro News – Using Vine to Make Lemon Videos Is the Best Way to Use Vine
[13]The Huffington Post – Will Sasso’s Vines Chronicle His Battle With Lemons, Might Be Funniest Thing Ever (VIDEO)
[14]Laughing Squid – Video Compilation of Will Sasso Vomiting Up Lemons on Vine