Post-Anesthesia Videos

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About

Post-Anesthesia Videos are amateur footage of people acting intoxicated or rambling incoherently while recovering from the effects of anesthesia after surgery. Since the viral reception of David After Dentist in 2009, at least a dozen of similar homemade videos have been shared on YouTube and other video-sharing platforms.

Origin

In May 2008, David DeVore took his seven-year-old son David DeVore Jr. to a dental surgeon to take care of an extraneous tooth that was caused by hyperdontia. After the surgery was completed, DeVore filmed David’s reaction, in which he asked various questions including “is this real life?” “why is this happening to me?” and “is this going to be forever?” After sharing the video with his family and friends on Facebook, DeVore uploaded it to YouTube with the title "David After Dentist" on January 30th, 2009 (shown below). Within six years, the video gained over 128 million views and 100,000 comments.

Spread

On May 20th, 2010, YouTuber Unicornpp uploaded a video titled "Unicorn After Wisdom Teeth," in which a woman claims she feels like "a unicorn just took me on a ride to a magical place" when emerging from anesthesia after a wisdom teeth removal procedure (shown below, left). On June 30th, YouTuber Kelly Claire uploaded footage of herself talking to her mom in a car following a wisdom teeth surgery (shown below, right). Within five years, the videos garnered more than 9.9 million and 4.1 million views respectively.

On October 16th, 2011, YouTuber brittmellish09 posted a video in which a young man laughs hysterically after being injected with anesthetic while having a broken arm bandaged (shown below, left). In four years, the video received upwards of 13 million views and 32,000 comments. On April 5th, 2012, YouTuber Sam Kitling uploaded a video featuring a girl who thinks she is at the magic school Hogwarts from the Harry Potter franchise after having her wisdom teeth removed (shown below, right).

On May 25th, YouTuber TheDizzays8^[3] uploaded a video of a child emerging from anesthesia after having arm surgery, which gathered upwards of 6.9 million views and 5,100 comments in the first three years. The following day, Redditor capt_yesterday submitted the video to the /r/videos^[4] subreddit, where it gained over 1,900 votes (86% upvoted) and 270 comments prior to being archived. On April 29th, 2013, YouTuber Jack Barth uploaded a video of a young man crying in a car after having his wisdom teeth removed (shown below, left). On August 30th, 2013, YouTuber Jason Mortensen uploaded a video of himself seeing his wife after surgery, in which he tells her she is "eye candy" and asks her if she is a model (shown below, right). In two years, the videos gathered upwards of 4,2 million and 15 million views respectively.

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On October 21st, 2014, YouTuber Stephen Underwood uploaded footage of his wife Jayci expressing her desire to look like Nicki Minaj and her appreciation for Ellen Degeneres (shown below, left). In five months, the video gained over 4.3 million views and 1,000 comments. On November 5th, Jayci and Stephen Underwood appeared on The Ellen Show (shown below, right).