# Spinning Horse Spinning Horse, also called Cavalo, is a viral clip of a prop horse flipping wildly on what looks like a film set while a Brazilian man shouts the Portuguese word for horse. The audio originated on YouTube in 2011, and the pairing exploded on TikTok and Twitter in mid-2019 before Brazilian YouTubers turned it into a meme standard in 2020. ## Origin The "cavalo" vocal comes from a 2011 YouTube upload by user Jhonatan8558 titled "Cavalo vinhetas," where a man shouts the word as a jingle-style sound effect[1]. The video sat on YouTube for years as a stock Brazilian soundboard clip before anyone paired it with the flipping horse footage. The spinning prop horse itself first went around on TikTok in the first half of 2019, posted by an account going by animalpla, which has since been deleted. The earliest surviving copy was reposted on Twitter by @onemegawatt on July 24, 2019, and that upload pulled more than 378,000 views and 9,800 likes over the following year and a half[2]. Where the raw footage actually comes from is still unconfirmed. One widely repeated guess is that it is behind-the-scenes material from season two of Netflix's The Witcher, but no production source has ever verified that claim[3]. - **Platform:** TikTok / Twitter (viral spread) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2019 ## Overview At its simplest, a Cavalo post is the same loop played straight: a fake horse on what looks like a bluescreen set flips end over end for a few seconds while a man off-camera shouts "cavalo" (Portuguese for "horse") on top of it[1]. The audio and the footage come from two totally unrelated sources that someone glued together, which is a big part of the joke. Viewers never find out why the horse is spinning or who the shouting man is, and that lack of context is the punchline. Brazilian YouTubers and Twitter users mostly treat it as a sound effect you can drop into any edit. Common versions include looped and extended cuts, mashups with other Brazilian video memes, and quick cameo appearances inside unrelated gaming or reaction compilations[2]. KYM compares its tone to the Juan meme, where the bizarre image plus a shouted name is the entire gag[3]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Spinning Horse? Spinning Horse, also known as Cavalo, is a Brazilian viral video that loops a flipping prop horse from a bluescreen set while a man shouts "cavalo," Portuguese for "horse"[2]. ### Where did Spinning Horse come from? The audio is from a 2011 YouTube clip titled "Cavalo vinhetas" by Jhonatan8558[1], while the horse footage first circulated on TikTok in 2019 and was preserved by Twitter user @onemegawatt that July[2]. ### What does Spinning Horse mean? It does not mean anything. Its appeal is the lack of context: an unexplained flipping prop and a shouted Portuguese word for "horse," which KYM likens to the absurdist Juan meme[3]. ### How do you use Spinning Horse? Editors typically paste the "cavalo" shout over the looped flipping clip or use it as a drop-in sound effect in unrelated videos, as seen in compilation uploads by channels like Memes em Alta[6]. ### Is Spinning Horse still popular? It peaked in 2020 through Brazilian YouTube edits by Maneiro Gaimer[4] and Nytos[5] and is now a classic Brazilian sound meme, still referenced but past its viral peak. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYd4Y4v9qmw]() 2. [https://twitter.com/onemegawatt/status/1154102577165766661]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/spinning-horse-cavalo]() 4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xzGPPxKgJM]() 5. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2B6ayYla3g]() 6. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc0di6PGzAM]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/spinning-horse-cavalo Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library