About
Cheeseburger Josh is a video posted on Youtube of Joshua “Ace” Moll who gets loud an obnoxious in a Whataburger restaurant in Texas before being wrestled to the ground by Joe Guichebarou.
The video below is not the original. It was uploaded on March 27th, 2010 but there are responses from the 26th.
On February 25th, 2010, the following video was posted by boyuisthebad, however this does not seem to be the original either, since many other reuploads do not include the blatant advertising.
Spread
March 26th, 2010
- Blogged on liesangeles.
March 27th, 2010
- The video is blogged on Dangerousminds.net.
- Reuploaded to Livelink.
March 28th, 2010
- An article about the video is created on Encyclopedia Dramatica.
- The video is submitted to Buzzfeed.
- Ashton Kutcher (AplusK) tweets about the video.
March 30th, 2010
- The video is reuploaded to CollegeHumor.
- Covered on Brazilian blog Hypercetera.
Popularity
As of March 30th, 2010, there are 14 relevant search results for “whataburger fight” that are reuploads of roughly the same video; with a cumulative total viewcount of approximately 180,000.
There are 18 videos tagged with “Cheeseburger Josh” with a total of around 190,000 views.
Many of these are the same videos.
Interviews
Response Videos
Past fights at Whataburger
In searching for the earliest instance of the Whataburger Fight, it has become obvious that the Whataburger has served as a the setting for a number of physical confrontations.
On June 12th, 2007, two Whataburger employees fought with broomsticks.
June 1st, 2008, customers in a parking lot of a Whataburger:
On November 22nd, 2009:
It’s almost as if it was only a matter of time before a fight would happen at a Whataburger involving someone’s pants falling down.
Google Insights
Searches for “Cheeseburger Josh” began on March 28th, peaked on March 31st, and dropped off sharply by April 1st.