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The 5th year anniversary of the infamous release of the of “Top 15 Mysteries Solved by 4Chan”, the video which spawned the “Burger King foot lettuce” meme, will occur, specifically on November 11th. A few months ago, on July 16th, the 10th anniversary of the Burger King foot lettuce incident itself occured.
For those somehow unaware of what the Burger King foot lettuce incident actually was, on July 16th, 2012, a image was uploaded to 4Chan with the caption “This is the lettuce you eat at Burger King”. The image showed what appeared to be an employee in a fast food kitchen with their shoes, standing on the lettuce in to plastic bins. 4Chan users however, noticed the employee had not removed the EXIF data from the image, which contained geolocational data on the whereabouts of the Burger King. They discovered the Burger King to be in one Mayfield Heights, Ohio. The restaurant was quickly contacted, as well as local news stations, who published reports of the incident. Three employees were later fired in correlation with the incident.
Now on November 11th, 2017, the channel Top15s posted the now infamous listicle video, which featured the first entry, being number 15 in the list, as the Burger King incident described above. That entry then became an internet meme! Why you ask? Well, here a few likely reasons why:
1: The narrator, Chills, seemingly had a quite unusual, humorous voice in their narration.
2: The spontaneous nature of Top15s’ lack of intros led first time viewers to find humor in the entry. I mean, imagine you have YouTube on autoplay, and you hear “Number 15: Burger King foot lettuce” in the background in Chills’ infamous intonation! Hilarious!
3: Come on, a story about some wacky goobers messing with food and getting an almost sitcom-esque dose of instant karma is hilarious!
4: The entry, and Chills’ voice, was easily replicable and malleable. Many popular edits of the video featured his narration being strung to the tune of Africa by Toto or Mine by Bazzi. Also, do the Chills voice, right now, not too bad eh? It’s obviously not perfect but it does the job enough to make a quick joke with friends.
I hope people can learn to appreciate this wonderful internet joke as much as I can, I will make the pilgrimage to that Mayfield Heights Burger King someday, and it will be the best day of my life.
