Hat Guy Youtube Hat Again Youtube
Posted on Jun 22, 2017 Updated on May 23, 2021, 2:16 am CDT
Perfect sequels don't be, you say? Well, endeavor telling that to Éirinn O'Kelly. He's a bearded, Scandinavian-Irish man from Arizona whose YouTube videos about his hats, "Chapeau" and "Chapeau Again," have made him a minor YouTube sensation and a beloved internet meme.
O'Kelly joined YouTube in 2007, according to his "about" page on the site. His first videos didn't appear until early on 2017, though—a combination of comedy about Donald Trump, singing, and videos of the moon. And then came "Hat," posted in March.
"This is one of the hats that I vesture in this crazy state of Error-Zona," O'Kelly says in the infinitesimal-and-a-half video.
"Hat Again," featuring a dissimilar chapeau, appeared subsequently the same mean solar day.
The videos are bang-up—just a bushy-faced man talking enthusiastically about his hats—but no 1 was watching them. O'Kelly remained a complete unknown until early on June, when Reddit poster Jacob Blackford plant the videos. At the time, their view counts were still in the single digits.
"I really discovered him through a Facebook grouping. Someone posted an image of the ii hat videos. I saw them, and added the explanation, and then posted it to /r/dankmemes," Blackford told the Daily Dot. His "perfect sequels don't exist" meme, featuring screengrabs of "Chapeau" and "Lid 2" was a tremendous hitting on the dank memes subreddit, turning O'Kelly into a meme sensation overnight.
Views of "Chapeau" and "Hat again" skyrocketed. Each video has now been watched more than 200,000 times. Since the meme was posted, O'Kelly has gone from 0 YouTube subscribers to more than than 15,000, according to YouTube analytics site SocialBlade:
O'Kelly noticed. The 24-hour interval after he became a meme, he started posting a new serial of hat videos. There were a ton of them because this man owns atonof hats:
Simply the joke wasn't just near the hats: Information technology was the idea that the showtime video was a cinematic masterpiece and there was a very good sequel.
A handful of hats later, O'Kelly caught onto that, likewise, and posted the hotly anticipated "Hat 3," featuring a Chicago Cubs cap.
The trilogy was complete, and the meme evolved even farther. People joked that the "Hat" series was improve thanLord of the Rings:
And they celebrated O'Kelly, everyone's new favorite director, in meme grade:
Hats 4 through 8 have been posted since, but they didn't generate the excitement (and six-digit view counts) of the kickoff three.
Some of O'Kelly'south other videos started to add to his meme fable, though. Even the Moon trilogy, whose entries are simply a few seconds long, is getting some love:
On Midweek, O'Kelly'due south fans even got "Hat" to the top of the Internet Picture show Database's best Goggle box evidence ranking:
The IMDB page for "Chapeau" describes information technology thusly: "Eirinn O' Kelly shows and discusses his diverse hats. The bear witness is also riddled in social and political satire that is deeply poignant in today's modern lodge."
O'Kelly has truly arrived. Only, at this point, Reddit is condign so saturated with dear for "Hat" that a backlash is get-go to form. Here'due south a meme suggesting Hat Guy just isn't funny, and that jokes about him are stealing attending from "chilly" original content.
Chapeau Guy doesn't seem to care at all. He's happy to flood the market with hat content to satisfy his ravenous newfound fans, posting hat after hat. Volition they go tired of information technology? Eventually. Will he turn out to exist a "Milk shake Duck" who eventually shares an opinion that disappoints his admirers? Very likely! In fact, he already seems to be cultivating a "sexy" video playlist, including "hot girls" and "perfect twerks."
In the end, we're all human. Some of us but take more hats than others.
*Commencement Published: Jun 22, 2017, 5:00 am CDT
Jay Hathaway
Jay Hathaway is a former senior writer who specialized in cyberspace memes and weird online culture. He previously served as the Daily Dot'due south news editor, was a staff writer at Gawker, and edited the classic websites Urlesque and Download Team. His work has also appeared on nymag.com, suicidegirls.com, and the Morning News.
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