Skateboarding Joker

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Skateboarding Joker refers to several viral videos of professional skateboarder Kanaan Dern dressing up as Joker from the 2019 film of the same name for Halloween Hellbomb 2019 event and performing skateboarding tricks, including a jump over a car. Following the spread of the videos, several of them were used in meme edits on Instagram, while a footage of Dern falling gained spread as a reaction video.

Origin

On October 26th, 2019, Halloween Hellbomb skateboarding event took place in Long Beach, California. During the event, professional skateboarder Kanaan Dern, dressed as Joker from the 2019 film of the same name, performed a series of tricks, including a rail frontslide and a jump over a car. On the same day, Instagram user nickfucker posted a video of Dern performing a successful jump over a car to the platform, gaining over 37,400 views in two weeks.^[1] On the same day, Dern reposted the video to his account, gaining over 148,300 views in two weeks (shown below).^[2]

On October 27th, 2019, Instagram user pepperet posted the earliest known meme based on the video, gaining over 4,300 views and 1,500 likes in two weeks (shown below).^[3] A repost on the user's alternative account received over 29,400 views and 8,400 likes in the same period.

Spread

In the following days, the video received notable popularity in edits on Instagram. For example, an October 28th post by Instagram user igotsliver received over 122,200 views and 41,000 likes in one week (shown below).^[4]

In the following days, more edits of nickfucker's post and other footage of Dern at the event were posted on Instagram, including notable edits by succc.exe^[5] and pampam.mp4.^[6]

Use as a Reaction Video

On October 27th, 2019, Twitter user @_OpineIsMyName_ used footage of Dern failing a trick and falling onto the ground as a reaction. The tweet received over 7,200 retweets and 23,300 likes in one week (shown below).^[7]

In the following days, the footage has been reused as a reaction video by multiple users on Twitter and Instagram. For example, an October 29th, 2019, tweet by Twitter user @LuckiDonny received over 60,000 retweets and 242,000 likes in five days (shown below).^[8]