2 Girls 1 Cup

A decade ago, long before online virality was its own kind of currency, a video wormed its way onto the web that brought the nation together in shared disgust. In it, (alleged) creamy shit oozed into a cup and two girls, Latifa and Karla, devoured it while making messy, depraved love. It was called “2 Girls 1 Cup,” and everyone watched it. Seriously, everyone watched it. An eloquent, exhaustive new piece from MEL Magazine evaluates the video’s legacy 10 years down the line, a concept that would’ve sounded absurd when the video first premiered. “Even as recently as 2007, I doubt that many of us understood the web’s permanence,” says writer Miles Klee. “It was, we assumed, a giant sandbox where whatever we said and did was soon to melt away.”

The video lives on, but what of its creators? Klee’s intent for the piece was clearly to track down those involved. He found them, but actual contact proved elusive… read more >