Virtual Sin Forgiveness

About

Virtual Sin Forgiveness refers to a series of memes inspired by Dan Hentschel's, "Virtual Sin Forgiveness" viral video in which he dresses as a Catholic Priest and absolves people of their sins. The video editing effects used by Hentschel, reminiscent of a powerful psychic attack, led to the spread of Duet style videos showing people being pushed back by Hentschel's power in early 2024.

Origin

On August 13th, 2023, comedian Dan Hentschel posted a video captioned "Virtual Sin Forgiveness" to his X,^[1] TikTok and Instagram^[2] accounts. The clip gathered over 24,000 likes on X and 520,000 likes on Instagram in roughly five months (seen below).

Spread

X^[3] user @OwlLunch reposted the clip on January 25th, 2024, gathering over 59,000 plays and 19 million views in three days. Various X^[4] users posted memes remixing the clip on January 27th, 2024, including @BepixelOfficial, whose upload gathered over 78,000 likes in two days (seen below).

holy moly brother…additional editing by @FireAtWhire thank u bb https://t.co/yeKREX7sW6 pic.twitter.com/nBjgxb3tZB

— bepixel || 🇵🇹 (@BepixelOfficial) January 27, 2024

X^[5] user @SeedyZ_ also posted a skit using the clip on January 27th, gathering over 189,000 likes in two days (seen below).

https://t.co/6CDsSZISTO pic.twitter.com/3YKSlgpDJ5

— Carlos / Seedy (@SeedyZ_) January 27, 2024

X^[6] user @ChrisCrossSauce then posted another video on January 27th, which made a reference to the character Tien Shinhan from Dragon Ball Z, gathering over 52,000 likes in two days (seen below).

We're all thinking it. https://t.co/xD5p7Q1lBN pic.twitter.com/q5KJ06HZKo

— ChrisCrossCrunch (@ChrisCrossSauce) January 27, 2024

A Domain Expansion meme posted by X^[7] user @ab_roccoli on January 28th, 2024, gathering over 70,000 likes in a day (seen below).

Various Examples

https://t.co/ackL33Bm3i pic.twitter.com/HK0u78sKNt

— Greg the Sorcerer (@gregthesorcerer) January 28, 2024

Hopping the Trend Lol https://t.co/UrsCyKhdDv pic.twitter.com/MfZXSNOhUR

— SW🍜 (@RealSWOfficial) January 28, 2024

Search Interest

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