Okay so this started when my buddy Mike texted me this morning asking, “Dude, did you see that poop gif with the Starbucks cup blowing up everywhere? What even IS that?” Honestly, I was clueless. Coffee cups? Poop? Trending? Sounded messy. Curiosity got the best of me, so I fired up my computer. Time to figure out this holiday hole story mess.
The Deep Dive Begins
First thing I did was punch “starbucks cup poop gif” straight into the search bar. Boom – pages flooded with weird GIFs. Mostly just clips of these… animated holiday Starbucks cups? With these cartoonish little holes drawn on ’em? Like, someone pretended the cup lid hole was something else… you get the picture. It felt more dumb than funny to me.
Didn’t really explain why it was trending though. So I started adding keywords – “why trending“, “holiday hole story“, and later just got desperate and searched “starbucks poop gif origin“. Scrolled through forums and social media chatter forever. It was confusing! Nobody seemed to have a straight answer. Lots of confused people like me, sharing the GIFs like wildfire, but hardly anyone knew why.
Kept digging. Different sites, different angles. Eventually, pieced together that it started bubbling up on TikTok and Twitter maybe a week ago? Some meme accounts took this existing, kinda boring holiday cup GIF and slapped the “poop” angle onto it as a juvenile joke. Why that stuck? Beats me. Internet humor is weird. It snowballed because it was absurd and vague enough for people to share saying “WTF is this?”
Why the “Holiday Hole” Thing?
That part was actually kinda straightforward once I found the right threads. The “holiday hole” part wasn’t some deep story or secret meaning. It was purely about the design of Starbucks’ seasonal cups! See:
- Holiday Cups: They release special festive cups every year, everyone knows that.
- That Little Hole: The sip-through lid has a hole. Just a functional thing for drinking.
- Juvenile Brains: Someone out there looked at that lid hole on the animated GIF version of the festive cup and thought, “Heh, looks like a poop hole.” Made a dumb caption or animation emphasizing that.
Seriously. That’s the entire “holiday hole story”. Some folks with bathroom humor found an existing cup GIF hilarious for an immature reason. The meme took off because it was just bizarre and specific enough to confuse people into engaging. No grand conspiracy, just classic, silly internet randomness.
Closing Thoughts and Unplanned Consequences
Phew. Finally felt like I had the gist. Wrote up some notes about how SEO amplifies dumb trends, how context gets lost instantly online, the power of low-brow humor for virality. Shared my findings in a group chat.
But here’s the real kicker. Later, my kid sister barges into my room. “Hey bro, were you searching about Starbucks poop cups?” Apparently, my laptop was still open on my search history while I grabbed coffee. My sweet baby sister saw “starbucks cup poop gif” plastered everywhere on my screen.
Mortifying. Spent ten minutes trying to explain internet trends and meme research to a 13-year-old who just kept giving me the most skeptical look. “So… you were just looking at poop jokes… for work?” she asked, eyebrow practically in her hairline. Mission accomplished? Maybe. Reputation as the responsible older brother? Completely demolished. Thanks internet.
