Toro Max

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About

Toro Max is the name of a child suffering from cerebral palsy who, before his death, was the subject of several popular YouTube videos uploaded by Max's father, Chuy Marlboro.

Origin

Toro Max is the star of several YouTube videos uploaded by his father, Chuy Marlboro. According to reports, Toro passed away in 2015, and his father began uploading videos to honor his son's memory.^[1] These videos have since been pulled off Instagram. However, one mirror of the original video uploaded by YouTuber : y on October 26, 2016 has more than 1.2 million views (shown below, left). Another video (shown below, right), published on November 12th by YouTuber angel zama, has more than 1.8 million views.

Spread

On November 10th, YouTuber El joke B) uploaded a compilation of Toro Max remixes to YouTube. The video, which remixes the first Toro Max video, received more than 1.6 million views.

Around that time, the Toro Max Facebook page launched. Within its first seven months, the page has received more than 55,200 likes and 55,600 followers.^[2]

On February 25th, 2017, Redditor Redrumey posted an image featuring Toro Max to the subreddit /r/me_irl.^[3] The picture (shown below) comes from the second Toro Max video under the caption "When you send nudes to your online gf and your uncle's phone rings with a message tone." The post received ore than 550 points (96% upvoted) in two months.

On April 30th, Redditor tbsgrave posted a toromax meme to the subreddit /r/dankmemes with the caption "When you're browsing in the deep web and see yourself with a 70% discount. The post received more than 10,900 points (94% upvoted) and 70 comments.^[6]