Ring Doorbell Magic Trick

Submission 17,096

About

Ring Doorbell Magic Trick refers to a video taken on a Ring doorbell camera of a man performing a simple magic trick, then leaning in close and saying, "magic." The video became the subject of edits on YouTube in December of 2020.

Origin

On November 25th, 2020, jakesterguy, who is known for his Ring doorbell videos, uploaded a video to TikTok ^[1] taken through a Ring video camera where he runs up to the door with a children's magic toy, which makes it appear as if a ball is disappearing when covered and uncovered again (shown below). He performs the trick for the camera, then gets extremely close to it and says, "magic," all while under an on-screen caption reading, "Proof We Live in a Simulation." The video gained over 19.8 million views in just over a month. On November 29th, Textile George re-uploaded the video to YouTube,^[2] garnering over 1.2 million views in a month.

Spread

On November 28th, 2020, jakesterguy uploaded another doorbell camera magic video to TikTok^[3] performing a new trick and saying "abracadabra" instead of "magic" at the end, this time garnering over 5 million views in a month (shown below). The video was re-uploaded to YouTube^[4] by Cardi B cappin' on December 8th, garnering over 250,000 views in 20 days. He continued the series with another upload to TikTok^[5] on December 1st, garnering over 873,000 views in under a month (shown below, right).

In late December YouTubers began uploading edits of the video. On December 20th, Bangladesh Creations uploaded the first one to YouTube,^[6] called "Houdini Performs Doorbell Magic (Vibe)" (shown below, left) followed by an upload to YouTube^[7] titled "Ring doorbell majik trick but he messes up" by Grisp, garnering over 521,000 views in 4 days (shown below, right).

On December 28th, Fretty uploaded a video to YouTube^[8] mixing the original doorbell magic video with footage of LittleMoeFades saying "wake up" garnering over 30,000 views in a day (shown below).