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Dan Hentschel Drinking Rum In A Car, also known as Dan Hentschel Drinking Alcohol In A Car, refers to a viral video of comedian Dan Hentschel in which he drinks a bottle of white Bacardi rum inside a car while seemingly having a mental breakdown. The video was posted on Twitter / X in April 2024 and later became a viral reaction video and GIF on the platform, typically used by netizens overreacting to something that happened in their lives.

Origin

On April 18th, 2024, American parody content creator Dan Hentschel uploaded a video on YouTube^[1] titled "I hate my life" in which he takes big gulps from a glass bottle of white Bacardi rum in his car, spews the drink and cries while having a mental breakdown. The video (seen below) amassed more than 130,000 views and 7,700 likes in four months.

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Dan Hentschel's clip of him drinking alcohol in the car became popularized as a reaction meme on X / Twitter over the course of the next few months. For example, on July 8th, 2024, X^[2] user @luv2liz posted Dan's clip as a reaction paired with the caption "when he starts telling me a story and all of a sudden everyones non binary." The post (seen below) amassed over 3.6 million views and 12,000 reposts in a week.

On June 2nd, 2024, X^[3] page @iFunny posted the same video, accompanied by the caption "she said she wouldn't stroke it and call me a good boy." The post (seen below) amassed roughly 26,000 views and 1,200 likes in a month.

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