Mom, Get the Camera!
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About
Mom, Get the Camera! is a memorable quote & reaction uttered by C8 Swap, a participant of the Call of Duty games. The phrase is most often used as a reaction in montage parodies and/or a compulsive reaction used to express that a person got rekt.
Origin
On June 29, 2011, YouTuber JustAnotherCinema uploaded a short clip of the reaction[1] after he had killed an opponent by rotating 360 degrees in mid-air and hurling a knife at KcE II NiNjAZz, an opponent. Since June of 2011, the video has acquired 460,000+ views and 6,000 likes (shown below).
C8 Swap: gasp Oh…! Oh my god! OOOHHHH! OH MY FUCKING GOOOOD!!! OOOOOHHHHH! GOT THAT F-KER! MOM, GET THE CAMERA!!! MOMMY! MOMMY! MOOMMYYYY! OOOHH MY GODDDD!
Spread
The reaction started to gain online traction after the first variation of the reaction was posted online. On February 15, 2012, YouTuber badSmarties uploaded another variation of the clip and has gained 753,000+ views and 10,000+ likes as of November 2014 (shown below).
On February 12th, 2014, YouTuber Candy Coke uploaded a montage parody using the reaction. However, it has only garnered around 900 views and 11 likes as of November 2014.
About a month later, YouTuber Furretful uploaded another video featuring the reaction with video footage of a plane striking the World Trade Center during the 9/11 terrorist attacks by Al-Qaeda. Since then, it has acquired 56,000+ views and 800+ likes.
It has also gained viral use outside of YouTube as well. There are 119 search results on Tumblr for posts and profiles containing "mom get the camera"[2]. It has also been added to MontageParodies[3], a site containing multiple sound effects often found in MLG videos. On MemeCenter, there are almost 20,000+ results of images on the site containing "mom get the camera" after user bakoahmed referenced the quote in one of his/her posts in September 2014.[4]
Notable Examples
Search Interest
Searches for "mom get the camera" started picking up in February 2014, but has increased drastically since then.
External References
[1] YouTube – MOM GET THE CAMERA!!!
[2] Tumblr – #mom get the camera search results
[3] MontageParodies – Montage Parodies Website
[4] MemeCenter – Search Results for 'mom get the camera'