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#OhNoHarry is a hashtag for jokes regarding an incident in which One Direction singer Harry Styles stumbled in fell while performing at a concert in San Diego, California in July 2015.

Origin

During a One Direction concert held on July 9th, 2015, band member Styles concert in San Diego stumbled backwards and fell down while carrying a microphone stand (shown below). That evening Viner Stalker Sarah posted a video clip of the fall, which gained over 6.9 million loops, 19,000 likes and 10,000 revines in the first four days (shown below).

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On July 10th, Twitter user @angelsmilehes posted several photoshops featuring a cut out image of Styles mid-fall (shown below). In 72 hours, the tweet gathered upwards of 650 retweets and 550 favorites.

Meanwhile, the AwesomenessTV YouTube channel uploaded a video about the Internet's reaction to the incident, which included a clip of Styles joking that fans should delete the video (shown below).

In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the hashtag, including Today,^[3] MTV^[4] and Metro. ^[5]According to the Twitter analytics site Topsy,^[2] the hashtag @OhNoHarry was tweeted upwards of 840,000 times over the next week.

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