Fried Rice Prank

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Fried Rice Prank refers to an image of YouTuber Kanta of the MTV Tokyo fried rice guys pulling a prank wherein it appears as though he's making a giant wave of fried rice. After the prank was posted to Twitter, users there started a photoshop battle based on the image.

Origin

On January 19th, 2019, YouTube channel MTV Tokyo fried rice guys posted a video in which YouTuber Kanta pulls a prank wherein he appears to make a giant wave of fried rice using an artificial prop. The video gained over 5.5 million views (shown below).

Spread

On January 22nd, 2019, Twitter user @YS_Bomb11^[1] tweeted the video's thumbnail, saying "What a pic," gaining over 40,000 retweets and 180,000 likes (shown below).

The popularity of the tweet inspired other Twitter users to photoshop the image. Several Twitter users photoshopped the picture to reference Katsushika Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Kanagawa." Twitter user @royojo photoshopped the wave into the picture, gaining over 1,100 retweets and 7,800 likes (shown below, left). User @bettinamak did the inverse, photoshopping the thumbnail into the painting, gaining over 1,700 retweets and 8,300 likes (shown below, right).

Other variations include a Waves Hairstyle Photoshop by user @Panini_Bread that gained over 2,000 retweets and 9,000 likes (shown below, left). User @_eigenheit posted a Sasuke Choke Edit that gained over 70 retweets and 220 likes (shown below, right). The jokes were covered by Mashable.^[2]

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