Cardi B Throwing Microphone At Fan

About

Cardi B Throwing Microphone At Fan, also known as Cardi B Throwing Microphones, refers to a viral video in which American rapper Cardi B throws her microphone at a fan that splashed their drink on the singer during a July 2023 show in Las Vegas. The incident quickly went viral as the clip spread on social media, subsequently inspiring a series of memes and reaction images using the original video as an exploitable.

Origin

On July 29th, 2023, the Twitter^[1] page @PopBase uploaded a video showing Cardi B being hit with liquid from a cup, which she then reacts to by throwing her microphone at the fan. The post (shown below) garnered over 108 million views and 415,000 likes in three days. After the incident, the singer gave a short pause before continuing with the show.^[2]

On July 30th, 2023, Twitter user @TheJuicePop^[3] then posted a video moments before the incident in which Cardi B is telling fans to splash water at her. The post (shown below) garnered over 693,000 views and 4,500 likes in one day.

A new video shows #Cardi B telling fans to splash water at her. pic.twitter.com/tj8RnBFRKY

— Juice Pop (@TheJuicePop) July 30, 2023

Roughly 24 hours after the splash incident, the singer threw another microphone during a separate show, this time toward her DJ at the end of her set in Drai’s Beachclub in Las Vegas. Twitter^[4] user @KxngCardo posted a video of the moment (shown below), which received roughly 15 million views and 41,600 likes in one day.

Cardi B threw 2 mics in the last 24 hours and trending asf 😭😂 pic.twitter.com/21pwF475y6

— kxngcardo (@KxngCardo) July 30, 2023

Spread

On July 30th, 2023, Twitter^[5] user @MyDogeCTO posted a Pokémon photoshop montage using Cardi's still image throwing the mic as a Pokémon opponent. The post (shown below, left) received over 1,400 likes and 116 retweets in a day. On the same day, Twitter user^[6] @the_petshopboy posted the same still image of the singer paired with the caption "Telling my kids this is the Statue of Liberty." The post (shown below, right) garnered 94,000 likes and 12,900 retweets in a day.

On July 30th, TikToker^[7] @igreenscreenthings posted a green-screen version of the incident (shown below), which garnered roughly 52,000 plays and 664 likes in a day.

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