African Man in High Pants

About

African Man in High Pants refers to a viral video of a black man in a pink button-up shirt and grey slacks worn up to his chest walking down the street. Many online have referred to the man as African; though his nationality has not been confirmed. Screenshots of the man walking have been used in two-panel image macros juxtaposed against a photograph of model Paige Elkington also wearing very high-wasted page.

Origin

The origin of the video is unknown. The earliest available version of the video was found on the Instagram page @skinsnapss with the watermark @Sonny5ideup on December 26th, 2016. The video received more than 26,000 views and 1,900 likes just over three years (shown below).

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Several months later, on July 26th, 2017, Gfycat^[1] user @evebraza posted a GIF of the image, which has since received more than 1.4 million views (shown below, left).

Later that year, on October 7th, YouTuber ToffRabat posted the video, claiming that it took place in Accra, Ghana in West Africa (shown below, right).

On December 27th, Redditor ^[2] Fooly99 published a screenshot of the man. The post received more than 39,000 points (96% upvoted) and 300 comments in less than three years (shown below, right).

On March 26th, 2018, model Paige Elkington published an image on Instagram^[3] of herself wearing a pair of pants with the waist at her chest. The post received more than 5,300 likes in less than two years (shown below, left).

Two years later, on January 27th, 2020, Twitter ^[4] @Sonny5ideUp tweeted the two images side-by-side with the caption "An enemy approaches" (shown below, right). When shared on Instagram,^[5] the image received more than 25,000 likes in less than 24 hours.

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