Hurricane Matthew Meets Slayer

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About

Hurricane Matthew Meets Slayer is a viral video featuring Florida resident Lane Pittman, shirtless and holding an American flag, during Hurricane Matthew's rainfall in 2016. The video plays with the song "Raining Blood" by the heavy metal band Slayer on the soundtrack.

Origin

On October 7th, 2016, Lane Pittman posted the initial video of himself in the rain on Facebook. ^[1] He captioned the post, "Had a request for some hair action during the 'cane. I granted it." In three years, the video received more tahn 27 million views, 424,000 shares, 137,000 reactions and 79,000 comments (mirror below).

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GoFundMe Campaign

On September 13th, 2018, Pittman launched a GoFundMe ^[8] campaign to "send Land to fight Florence." The campaign received $1,136 of its initial $150 goal.

In the description, he wrote:

Pay for my gas/coffee and I’ll go fight Hurricane Florence. MERICA BABY!!! We stick together.

I have no idea what I'm going to do with this money lol I'll fix my car up for future hurricanes for sure! Pay off my speeding ticket a SC State Trooper gave me for coming back to Florida and pay my videographer. I'll take this GoFundMe down by Friday 9/21/18. Thanks for the love and support!!!!! It's overwhelming.

Followup Videos

Pittman has recreated his most famous video on several occasions. On September 14th, 2018, he shared "Hurricane Florence vs Florida Man," which received more than 352,000 views in less than one year (shown below, left).

The following year, on September 5th, 2019, he shared "Hurricane Dorian vs. Florida Man." The video received more than 75,000 views in about one week (shown below, right).

Media Coverage

The videos have received media coverage from such outlets as Mashable, ^[2] Spinnaker,^[3] the Miami Herald,^[4] The Daily Dot, ^[5] New York Post,^[6] HuffPost^[7] and more.