Origin

The video originated from a 36-year-old Brazilian man, named Marco Fiorito, who describes himself as a "compulsive fetishist".[4] Fiorito originally produced foot fetish videos but soon moved on to coprophagia. The film was produced by MFX-Video, one of several companies owned by Fiorito.[4] Fiorito contends his films are legal in Brazil, but authorities in the United States have branded some of his films as obscene and filed charges against Danilo Croce, a Brazilian lawyer living in Florida, listed as an officer of a company distributing Fiorito's films in the United States.[4] Croce accepted a plea bargain and was sentenced to 3 years of unsupervised probation and forfeiture of $98,000. Fiorito claimed he did not know his films were illegal in the United States and that his films often contained chocolate instead of feces to appease some of his actors who were willing to appear in scat films but not actually eat fecal matter.[4]
The first frame in the 2 Girls 1 Cup video has the text "MFX 1209" and includes a URL to mfxvideos.com, the website of Fiorito's MFX-Video, leading some in the media to believe the video is one of the many Croce had to surrender to the Department of Justice but was somehow leaked in the process.

Reception


Reactions

Part of what has facilitated 2 Girls 1 Cup's spread are the reactions it causes. Hundreds of videos exist on YouTube of users showing the original video to their friends and taping their reactions. Joe Rogan, host of NBC s Fear Factor a show notorious for the ing things its contestants eat, had to turn away in a reaction video posted to his blog.[8] A reaction video starring Kermit the Frog proved very popular on the community-based popularity website Digg.[9] In January 2008, Slate magazine documented the reaction video phenomenon with a slideshow featuring various reactions.

Parodies

The video has inspired several parodies, such as a short film by singer and comedian John Mayer to his blog entitled "2 Guys 1 Cup" where Mayer and Best Week Ever correspondent Sherrod Small enjoy Pinkberry Frozen yogurt in the same manner the women in the original enjoyed the fecal matter.Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton also made a parody titled "1 Guy 1 Jar", which he posted to YouTube. Filmmakers Justin Roiland and Christian Le Guilloux made a 5-minute series called "2 Girls, 1 Cup: The Show" for the short film competition site, Channel 101. It debuted in first place on January 27, 2008.

Media recognition

Many in the media have taken the video's popularity as a sign of society's declining morals.The video was featured on VH1's Best Week Ever, where the video's existence and propagation was declared to cause "Moral Bankruptcy" to have the "Best Week Ever!"