White claw meme
Meet the Boog BoisĬontrary to what you might think, there are a bunch of videos of well-armed dudes shooting alcoholic beverages online, if you know where to look. White Claw in hand, I struck out in search of answers. In certain corners of the gun-owning internet, “ain’t no laws when you’re drinking Claws” functions as a Molon Labe for militant millennial males who are as taken with the hard seltzer’s effervescent low-carb wiles as they are with alt-right lingo and maybe-serious-maybe-not jokes about political violence.īut why have strapped, shitposting, self-avowed “autists” taken up an effeminate mainstream malt beverage as their drink of choice? It’s not a full-blown trend per se, but neither is it the isolated behavior of a solitary wingnut. So have others, apparently: “How to Open a White Claw” has been viewed more than 21,000 times on YouTube, and untold thousands more on the feeds of the various aggregator accounts that have reposted it across social media.Ĭulturally, though, the practice of gunning open hard-seltzer cans point-blank while braying voluntaryist credos into the void is slightly harder to parse. Structurally, this video is a near-perfect execution of the three-act setup-confrontation-resolution arc.
Then he tosses it to the ground and lets out a howl of his own. The man in black tilts his head back and holds the twisted White Claw casing aloft, chugging its remains.