The Belly Button Video

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About

The Belly Button Video is an explicit, shock media video of an overweight woman's belly button being penetrated by a man's penis. The original clip was uploaded to the pornography website TiffanyCushinberry.com and features the female adult actress Tiffany Cushinberry. The viral video later surfaced on Twitter in early 2023 where users made memes about it, expressed discomfort and used it as a bait-and-switch prank predominantly in the replies to other people's tweets.

Origin

On February 28th, 2023, Twitter^[1] user @memeteca18com posted a video that showed an overweight woman's belly button being penetrated by a man's penis. The video was surfaced from the now-defunct website TiffanyCushinberry.com, which was created by female pornstar Tiffany Cushinberry^[2] sometime in 2005.^[3] What would later be identified as the "Belly Button Video" had been reposted across pornography sites like Pornhub throughout the 2010s, ultimately leading to Twitter^[1] user @memeteca18com's February 2023 tweet that, over the course of five days, received roughly 2 million views and 8,900 likes.

Spread

Following the aforementioned tweet, Twitter users began calling the video the "Belly Button Video" and uploading reactions to it based on its shock value. For instance, on March 3rd, 2023, Twitter^[4] user @tize4PF tweeted the Guys I Have Bad News image paired with the caption, "that belly button video made it onto my tl," earning roughly 35,600 likes in one day (shown below).