About
“Hand Me the Aux Cord” is an expression used to request an auxiliary audio input cable in order to play music off a mobile device. On Twitter, the expression is often used to caption images of flaming vehicles, indicating that the music was so hot it set the car ablaze.
Origin
On August 17th, 2014, the WorldStarHipHop Twitter feed @WSFights[3] posted photographs of a burning car with the caption “When the homie hand me the AUX cord” (shown below). In the first two months, the tweet gained over 1,200 retweets and 750 favorites.
Spread
On August 28th, 2014, Redditor spacymushroom submitted a 3-pane image of the Pokemon character Ash Ketchum turning his hat backwards titled “When someone hands me the AUX cord in the car” to the /r/funny[1] subreddit (shown below).
On October 23rd, Urban Dictionary[2] user USAFmondesir submitted an entry for “Aux Cord,” defining it as the “blood and lifeline of a car trip.” On October 29th, Twitter user @KingRyin[5] posted a photograph of a flaming airplane with the caption “when the pilot hands me the AUX cord,” garnering upwards of 3,400 retweets and 2,600 favorites in 48 hours (shown below). On October 31st, Redditor Pikey7 submitted a photograph of a burning car titled “When you give me the aux cord” to the /r/teenagers[4] subreddit.
According to the Twitter analytics site Topsy,[6] the keywords “aux cord” received over 400,000 mentions during October 2014.
Search Interest
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