About

Billy Porter's Hat refers to the crystal fringe blue motorized Baja East hat worn by American performer, singer and actor Billy Porter at the 62nd annual Grammy Awards in January 2020. A short video clip of the curtain-like fringe opening in front of Porter's face on the red carpet became a reaction video on Twitter.

Origin

On January 26th, 2020, Pose Brasil posted a short video of Billy Porter's hat fringe opening to their Twitter account (shown below). The video gained over two million views, 11,600 likes and 1,900 retweets in a day.

Spread

On January 16th, 2020, Twitter user @kevin_glueck captioned the clip "Me getting ready to reply, 'per my last email'" and garnered over 9,600 likes and 2,000 retweets in a day.

That same night, multiple Twitter users created various captions for the video. Twitter user @whduncan captioned the video "Me: I can’t go out, I’m trying to save money this week Friend: wanna go to happy hour? Me:" (shown below). The tweet garnered over 4,400 likes and 700 retweets in a day. Paper Mag^[1] and Cosmopolitan^[2] published articles covering the various Twitter reactions to the hat.

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