# Ottoman Humpers Ottoman Humpers refers to a cluster of 2007 YouTube videos in which members of the amateur group Peer Pressure grind on living room furniture to Pretty Ricky tracks. The clips picked up millions of views, drew MTV coverage, and later inspired parodies on Tosh.0 and American Dad, making the footstool grind one of the more unlikely early YouTube viral exports. ## Origin The first Ottoman Humpers clip, titled "pretty ricky-Lingere," was uploaded on January 7, 2007 to the YouTube channel amp6 and featured three Peer Pressure members, Dez, Lando and Ant, grinding on brown couches and an ottoman to Pretty Ricky's "Lingerie" with the curtains pulled shut[1]. The breakout video, "Pretty Ricky – Late Night Special," followed from the same channel on January 31, 2007, this time with five members and the name-card intros, and it is the version most people picture when they hear the meme name[2]. MTV reporter James Montgomery later identified the group members by their legal names in an August 15, 2007 feature, listing Allen P. Hasberry, Anthony Terry, Terry Vinson, Orlando Cannon and Desmond White behind the stage personas[3]. Desmond "Satisfaktion" White spoke to MTV about the group's intent for the clips as the videos were still climbing in views[3]. - **Platform:** YouTube - **Creator:** Peer Pressure (amp6 YouTube channel) - **Date:** 2007 ## Overview Ottoman Humpers, also tagged under the group name Peer Pressure, is a run of homemade YouTube clips in which young men take turns dry-humping a brown ottoman and couches while Pretty Ricky's slow jams play through the room[1]. Each performer gets a solo spotlight, with on-screen name cards announcing nicknames like Relentless, X2C, Pipelayer, Pre$$ure and Satisfaktion before the next guy climbs on the furniture[2]. The appeal is the deadpan sincerity of it. The group frames the clips like a mixtape showcase, complete with closing credits listing the members' real and stage names, which collides with the absurdity of five guys grinding a footstool in a suburban living room[2]. That gap between serious R&B presentation and goofy execution is what pulled in millions of views and sent the format out to blog aggregators, cable comedy writers rooms and parody YouTubers over the next few years[3]. ## How It Spread Peer Pressure followed the first two uploads with "Pretty Ricky – Up and Down" on February 6, 2007, filmed next to a Christmas tree and featuring every member except Pipelayer[4]. On April 29, 2007 the group posted "Peer Pressure's Address to the Public," a straight-faced follow-up in which one member said he wanted to "set the record straight" about the attention the clips were getting[5]. Parodies showed up quickly. A Week of Kindness Sketch Comedy posted "Handsome Richard's Late Night Phosphate" to Dailymotion on June 20, 2007, restaging the bit on a vintage footstool[1]. MTV's August 2007 writeup pushed the videos further into mainstream blog coverage[3]. Comedy Central's Tosh.0 revisited the clips during the third episode of its first season, "News Puke Kid," which aired on June 18, 2009, with Daniel Tosh running his own parody right after the breakdown[1]. TV picked the format up again a couple of years later. American Dad built a visual riff on the videos into season six, episode 13, "I Am the Walrus," which aired on March 27, 2011, swapping Pretty Ricky for Ginuwine's "Pony" as the show's characters mimicked the ottoman routine[1]. ## How to Use The template is simple and almost always played straight: a Pretty Ricky track plays, a performer slow-grinds an ottoman or couch cushion, and either on-screen captions or edit cuts rotate through a lineup of participants[2]. Parodies typically swap the song or furniture while keeping the solemn, mixtape-style framing, which is where the comedy comes from[4]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Ottoman Humpers? It is a set of 2007 YouTube videos in which members of the group Peer Pressure take turns grinding on an ottoman and couches to Pretty Ricky songs[2]. ### Where did Ottoman Humpers come from? The first clip was uploaded to the amp6 YouTube channel on January 7, 2007, with the more famous five-member "Late Night Special" video following on January 31, 2007[2]. ### What does Ottoman Humpers mean? The name is a nickname given to Peer Pressure after the videos spread, referring to the footstool-grinding bit at the center of each clip[3]. ### How do you use Ottoman Humpers? Parody versions keep the mixtape-style framing while swapping the song, the furniture or the cast, as seen in a 2007 Dailymotion sketch and later Tosh.0 and American Dad bits[1]. ### Is Ottoman Humpers still popular? The clips are classic early-YouTube artifacts rather than active meme fuel, though the "Late Night Special" upload is still watched, with over 2.5 million views to date[2]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bnqd3jTong]() 2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k98bRUOb4g]() 3. [http://www.mtv.com/news/1567185/pretty-ricky-what-have-you-wrought-ottoman-humping-videos-spread-across-web/]() 4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huDnvkX_eVk]() 5. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E9SL_D8S9g]() 6. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ottoman-humpers]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/ottoman-humpers Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library