3 Orangutans 1 Blender

2008Hoax / alleged shock videodead

Also known as: 3 Orangutans and a Blender

3 Orangutans 1 Blender is a 2008 ghost video hoax named after 2 Girls 1 Cup, existing only through YouTube reaction clips that all feature the same audio.

3 Orangutans 1 Blender is an alleged shock video that almost certainly doesn't exist. Named in the style of 2 Girls 1 Cup, it supposedly depicts men violently harming orangutans, but the only evidence of the video are a handful of YouTube reaction clips from 2008 onward that all appear to use the same audio track1. The meme sits at the intersection of shock culture and internet hoax, a ghost video that people searched for, argued about, and filmed reactions to without anyone ever producing the actual footage.

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Overview

3 Orangutans 1 Blender borrows the naming convention from 2 Girls 1 Cup, the Brazilian shock video that spawned countless reaction videos in the late 2000s1. According to rumors, the video shows men graphically killing orangutans using a blender2. Nobody has ever produced a direct link to the original video, and the only proof that it might exist comes from a series of reaction videos where people appear to watch something disturbing while audio plays in the background3.

Analysis of the reaction videos reveals a suspicious detail: they all use what appears to be the same audio file. According to the Screamer fanbase Wiki, the audio is "a Garage Band loop with monkey sounds" rather than genuine footage3. This, combined with the total absence of the source video, strongly suggests the whole thing was an elaborate riff on the 2 Girls 1 Cup reaction video trend.

The earliest known trace of 3 Orangutans 1 Blender appeared on YouTube on March 8, 2008, when a user named Damonico uploaded a reaction video of himself supposedly watching the clip3. The video showed Damonico reacting with horror, grabbing a bucket, and puking into it1.

A few months before or after (accounts vary), a YouTuber called Persephone Rose uploaded her own reaction, describing 3 Orangutans 1 Blender as "way worse than 2 Girls 1 Cup and BME Pain Olympics"1. This was a bold claim. BME Pain Olympics was one of the most notoriously graphic shock videos circulating at the time, and framing 3 Orangutans 1 Blender as even worse helped fuel curiosity and searches.

The timing was perfect. In 2008, filming yourself watching shock content was a massive YouTube trend1. Sites like rotten.com and Meatspin had already built a culture of "dare you to watch" internet content, and 2 Girls 1 Cup reaction videos were everywhere, even appearing as gags on television shows1.

Origin & Background

Platform
YouTube (reaction videos)
Key People
Damonico, Persephone Rose
Date
2008

The earliest known trace of 3 Orangutans 1 Blender appeared on YouTube on March 8, 2008, when a user named Damonico uploaded a reaction video of himself supposedly watching the clip. The video showed Damonico reacting with horror, grabbing a bucket, and puking into it.

A few months before or after (accounts vary), a YouTuber called Persephone Rose uploaded her own reaction, describing 3 Orangutans 1 Blender as "way worse than 2 Girls 1 Cup and BME Pain Olympics". This was a bold claim. BME Pain Olympics was one of the most notoriously graphic shock videos circulating at the time, and framing 3 Orangutans 1 Blender as even worse helped fuel curiosity and searches.

The timing was perfect. In 2008, filming yourself watching shock content was a massive YouTube trend. Sites like rotten.com and Meatspin had already built a culture of "dare you to watch" internet content, and 2 Girls 1 Cup reaction videos were everywhere, even appearing as gags on television shows.

How It Spread

After the initial Damonico and Persephone Rose videos, other YouTubers posted their own reactions over the following years. Users like chimonster7 and theaterrate57 uploaded clips of themselves apparently watching the video. The comment sections on these videos split into three camps: people desperately searching for the original video, people claiming they'd seen it and describing what supposedly happens, and people calling the whole thing a hoax.

Questions about whether the video was real surfaced on Yahoo Answers and Reddit, with users debating its authenticity. Urban Dictionary entries defined it as "an unknown shock video" while noting that "the only proof of these videos existing is from 'reaction' videos".

Interest spiked again years later when the YouTube channel Unus Annus, featuring Markiplier and CrankGameplays, stumbled across the name while researching 2 Girls 1 Cup. They didn't investigate further, but the mention introduced the myth to a new generation of viewers.

The Wikipedia page for 2 Girls 1 Cup notes that 3 Orangutans 1 Blender's name was inspired by the original, citing Heinz Duthel's *The Complete Encyclopedia of Internet Pornography* as a source.

How to Use This Meme

There's no meme template here in the traditional sense. 3 Orangutans 1 Blender functions more as a piece of internet lore than a format people actively remix. It typically comes up in three contexts:

1

Shock video discussions — Someone lists famous shock videos, and 3 Orangutans 1 Blender gets mentioned alongside 2 Girls 1 Cup, Tubgirl, and BME Pain Olympics.

2

Lost media rabbit holes — People post about trying to find the video, treating it as a mystery to solve.

3

Hoax analysis — Content creators and bloggers use it as an example of how the internet can fabricate convincing myths through social proof alone. A few reaction videos were enough to make thousands of people believe a video existed.

Cultural Impact

3 Orangutans 1 Blender is a small but interesting case study in how internet myths spread. The reaction video format, which was huge in 2007-2009, created a loophole: you could film yourself "reacting" to something that didn't exist, and viewers had no way to verify it. The social proof of multiple people appearing to watch the same thing made the hoax convincing.

The Tumblr blog justabitsp00ky published a detailed breakdown under the "Fake Lost Media" tag, walking through the evidence and concluding that the reaction videos were the only "clues of its existence" and that the video is "simply a fake shock video featuring orangutans that sent people on a search for nothing".

The meme also highlights how the naming convention of shock content ("X [number] Y [number]") became a formula in itself. Just hearing a title like "3 Orangutans 1 Blender" triggers assumptions about what the content contains, which made the hoax work without anyone needing to see actual footage.

Fun Facts

All known reaction videos appear to use the same background audio, identified as a GarageBand loop with added monkey sound effects.

Persephone Rose and Damonico were friends and fellow YouTubers, which adds to suspicion that the reaction videos were a coordinated bit.

The hoax predates the modern "lost media" community but fits neatly into the genre of internet content people obsessively search for.

Heinz Duthel's *The Complete Encyclopedia of Internet Pornography* is one of the few published books to reference the supposed video.

Frequently Asked Questions

3 Orangutans 1 Blender

2008Hoax / alleged shock videodead

Also known as: 3 Orangutans and a Blender

3 Orangutans 1 Blender is a 2008 ghost video hoax named after 2 Girls 1 Cup, existing only through YouTube reaction clips that all feature the same audio.

3 Orangutans 1 Blender is an alleged shock video that almost certainly doesn't exist. Named in the style of 2 Girls 1 Cup, it supposedly depicts men violently harming orangutans, but the only evidence of the video are a handful of YouTube reaction clips from 2008 onward that all appear to use the same audio track. The meme sits at the intersection of shock culture and internet hoax, a ghost video that people searched for, argued about, and filmed reactions to without anyone ever producing the actual footage.

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Overview

3 Orangutans 1 Blender borrows the naming convention from 2 Girls 1 Cup, the Brazilian shock video that spawned countless reaction videos in the late 2000s. According to rumors, the video shows men graphically killing orangutans using a blender. Nobody has ever produced a direct link to the original video, and the only proof that it might exist comes from a series of reaction videos where people appear to watch something disturbing while audio plays in the background.

Analysis of the reaction videos reveals a suspicious detail: they all use what appears to be the same audio file. According to the Screamer fanbase Wiki, the audio is "a Garage Band loop with monkey sounds" rather than genuine footage. This, combined with the total absence of the source video, strongly suggests the whole thing was an elaborate riff on the 2 Girls 1 Cup reaction video trend.

The earliest known trace of 3 Orangutans 1 Blender appeared on YouTube on March 8, 2008, when a user named Damonico uploaded a reaction video of himself supposedly watching the clip. The video showed Damonico reacting with horror, grabbing a bucket, and puking into it.

A few months before or after (accounts vary), a YouTuber called Persephone Rose uploaded her own reaction, describing 3 Orangutans 1 Blender as "way worse than 2 Girls 1 Cup and BME Pain Olympics". This was a bold claim. BME Pain Olympics was one of the most notoriously graphic shock videos circulating at the time, and framing 3 Orangutans 1 Blender as even worse helped fuel curiosity and searches.

The timing was perfect. In 2008, filming yourself watching shock content was a massive YouTube trend. Sites like rotten.com and Meatspin had already built a culture of "dare you to watch" internet content, and 2 Girls 1 Cup reaction videos were everywhere, even appearing as gags on television shows.

Origin & Background

Platform
YouTube (reaction videos)
Key People
Damonico, Persephone Rose
Date
2008

The earliest known trace of 3 Orangutans 1 Blender appeared on YouTube on March 8, 2008, when a user named Damonico uploaded a reaction video of himself supposedly watching the clip. The video showed Damonico reacting with horror, grabbing a bucket, and puking into it.

A few months before or after (accounts vary), a YouTuber called Persephone Rose uploaded her own reaction, describing 3 Orangutans 1 Blender as "way worse than 2 Girls 1 Cup and BME Pain Olympics". This was a bold claim. BME Pain Olympics was one of the most notoriously graphic shock videos circulating at the time, and framing 3 Orangutans 1 Blender as even worse helped fuel curiosity and searches.

The timing was perfect. In 2008, filming yourself watching shock content was a massive YouTube trend. Sites like rotten.com and Meatspin had already built a culture of "dare you to watch" internet content, and 2 Girls 1 Cup reaction videos were everywhere, even appearing as gags on television shows.

How It Spread

After the initial Damonico and Persephone Rose videos, other YouTubers posted their own reactions over the following years. Users like chimonster7 and theaterrate57 uploaded clips of themselves apparently watching the video. The comment sections on these videos split into three camps: people desperately searching for the original video, people claiming they'd seen it and describing what supposedly happens, and people calling the whole thing a hoax.

Questions about whether the video was real surfaced on Yahoo Answers and Reddit, with users debating its authenticity. Urban Dictionary entries defined it as "an unknown shock video" while noting that "the only proof of these videos existing is from 'reaction' videos".

Interest spiked again years later when the YouTube channel Unus Annus, featuring Markiplier and CrankGameplays, stumbled across the name while researching 2 Girls 1 Cup. They didn't investigate further, but the mention introduced the myth to a new generation of viewers.

The Wikipedia page for 2 Girls 1 Cup notes that 3 Orangutans 1 Blender's name was inspired by the original, citing Heinz Duthel's *The Complete Encyclopedia of Internet Pornography* as a source.

How to Use This Meme

There's no meme template here in the traditional sense. 3 Orangutans 1 Blender functions more as a piece of internet lore than a format people actively remix. It typically comes up in three contexts:

1

Shock video discussions — Someone lists famous shock videos, and 3 Orangutans 1 Blender gets mentioned alongside 2 Girls 1 Cup, Tubgirl, and BME Pain Olympics.

2

Lost media rabbit holes — People post about trying to find the video, treating it as a mystery to solve.

3

Hoax analysis — Content creators and bloggers use it as an example of how the internet can fabricate convincing myths through social proof alone. A few reaction videos were enough to make thousands of people believe a video existed.

Cultural Impact

3 Orangutans 1 Blender is a small but interesting case study in how internet myths spread. The reaction video format, which was huge in 2007-2009, created a loophole: you could film yourself "reacting" to something that didn't exist, and viewers had no way to verify it. The social proof of multiple people appearing to watch the same thing made the hoax convincing.

The Tumblr blog justabitsp00ky published a detailed breakdown under the "Fake Lost Media" tag, walking through the evidence and concluding that the reaction videos were the only "clues of its existence" and that the video is "simply a fake shock video featuring orangutans that sent people on a search for nothing".

The meme also highlights how the naming convention of shock content ("X [number] Y [number]") became a formula in itself. Just hearing a title like "3 Orangutans 1 Blender" triggers assumptions about what the content contains, which made the hoax work without anyone needing to see actual footage.

Fun Facts

All known reaction videos appear to use the same background audio, identified as a GarageBand loop with added monkey sound effects.

Persephone Rose and Damonico were friends and fellow YouTubers, which adds to suspicion that the reaction videos were a coordinated bit.

The hoax predates the modern "lost media" community but fits neatly into the genre of internet content people obsessively search for.

Heinz Duthel's *The Complete Encyclopedia of Internet Pornography* is one of the few published books to reference the supposed video.

Frequently Asked Questions