2 Girls 1 Cup Final Project

by paulshen @ 11:24 pm 9 May 2010

http://hackandsleep.com/2girls1cup

As of posting, 70,000 hits and counting!

From Wikipedia

2 Girls 1 Cup is the unofficial nickname of the trailer for Hungry Bitches, a scat-fetish pornographic film produced by MFX Media. The trailer features two women conducting themselves in fetishistic intimate relations, including defecating into a cup, taking turns ostensibly consuming the excrement, and vomiting it into each other’s mouths. “Lovers Theme”, from Herve Roy’s Romantic Themes, plays throughout.

Part of what has facilitated 2 Girls 1 Cup’s spread are the reactions it causes. Thousands of videos exist on YouTube of users showing the original video (off-camera) to their friends and taping their reactions, although some videos seem to be staged.

Analysis

A collection of twenty of the most-viewed YouTube reaction videos were downloaded and then edited to start at the same time. This was possible by listening for the start of the audio for the 2 Girls 1 Cup video. Each of these videos were then processed to collect data about optical flow and volume.
Volume

Loud reactions are common in the reaction videos. Screams of disbelief and horror are a big part of what make the reactions so interesting. For each frame of a reaction video, the fast Fourier transform calculated the frequency spectrum of an instance of audio. The frequency bins were then summed to calculate the volume. A window of one second was used to smooth the data.
Optical Flow

There are often strong visible reactions to the video, with people either flailing or cowering in fear. Optical flow is the amount of movement in a video. This differs from techniques such as background subtraction and differencing because the amount of image displacement is calculated. For this project, the openCV function cvCalcOpticalFlowBM was used to retrieve the amount of motion between consecutive frames. As with the audio, a window of one second was used to smooth the data.

Pretty graphs

Each color represents a different reaction video plotted over time.

The median value for each second was used to lessen the effect of outliers.

Conclusion

So in the end, were there any conclusions that resulted from this analysis? I had hoped by analyzing the reaction videos quantitatively, patterns would emerge that could, in an indirect way, describe 2 Girls 1 Cup. But it appears that once the mayhem begins, the reaction videos turn into chaos, maintaining the shock through the duration of the video.

This project was created for Golan Levin‘s ‘Special Topics in Interactive Art & Computational Design’ course at Carnegie Mellon, Spring 2010

Shameless plug for other projects: Augmenting with Optical Flow The Central Dimension of Human Personality

So much for trying to put numbers to scat-fetish porn.

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