About
How Animals Eat Their Food is a series of short comedy skits in which the actors humorously depict how different species of animals would feed at a dining table.
Origin
On April 8th, 2013, YouTuber MisterEpicMann[1] uploaded a video showing two men seated at a table sharing a meal, with one of them performing an interpretive dance to show how different species of animals eat while the other sits quietly, unaffected. In just four days, the video reached 7 million views.[12] Within the first two weeks, the video accrued nearly 47.5 million views on YouTube and 3.5 million shares on Facebook.[2]
Spread
The day after it was uploaded, MisterEpicMann’s video was shared on the /r/videos subreddit[3], where it earned 1,941 upvotes and 1,083 points overall. Also on April 9th, the video was featured on College Humor[4], Tastefully Offensive[5], Pleated Jeans[6], Laughing Squid[7], eBaum’s World[8] and the Huffington Post.[9] On April 11th, YouTuber Art The Bird[10] uploaded the first parody video (shown below, left) featuring re-enactments of how cats, sharks and elephants would eat food at a table, which accrued more than 1.4 million views in 12 days. On April 12th, German comedy troupe Onkel Bernis Welt[11] uploaded another parody video, using Grumpy Cat, an eagle and a sloth as examples. Within 11 days, this video has been watched more than 2.7 million times.
As more parodies began to pop up on YouTube throughout April, a number of them were featured on Laughing Squid[13], CollegeHumor[14], Dorkly[15] and the Huffington Post.[16] On April 22nd, Crave Online[17] compiled a list of 8 of the best parody videos.
Notable Parodies
Search Interest
External References
[1]YouTube – MisterEpicMann
[2]Viral Video Chart – How Animals Eat Their Food
[3]Reddit – /r/Videos: How Animals Eat Their Food [1:26]
[4]CollegeHumor – How Animals Eat Their Food
[5]Tastefully Offensive – How Animals Eat Their Food
[6]Pleated Jeans – How Animals Eat Their Food
[7]Laughing Squid – How Animals Eat Their Food
[8]eBaum’s World – How Animals Eat Their Food
[9]Huffington Post – How Animals Eat Their Food (VIDEO)
[10]YouTube – Art The Bird
[11]YouTube – Onkel Bernis Welt
[12]Mashable – Hilarious ‘How Animals Eat Their Food’ Wins YouTube
[13]Laughing Squid – How Animals Eat Their Food, Part 2
[14]College Humor – How Other Animals Eat Their Food
[15]Dorkly – How Animals Eat Their Food (POKEMONVERSION)
[16]Huffington Post – How Humans Eat Their Food: The Animal Kingdom Responds (VIDEO)
[17]Crave Online – 8 Parodies Of “How Animals Eat Their Food”