Colton's Fence Jump

About

Colton's Fence Jump refers to a scene featured in Season 23 of The Bachelor in which Bachelor Colton Underwood jumps a fence in reaction to frustration and heartbreak.

Origin

On January 8th, 2019, Bachelor World released The Bachelor Season 23 extended preview that features the scene (shown below). That same day YouTube comments began to feature excitement surrounding the fence jump. the video gained 131,000 views in two months.

Spread

On January 22nd, Twitter user began posting about when they might see the infamous fence jump (shown below).

On March 1st, Bachelor World posted a play-by-play of the fence jump, capitalizing on all of the attention the scene was getting (shown below).

On March 4th, The Fantasy Suite episode premiered featuring, Taysha, Hannah G. and Cassie. After Twitter users started to notice that Cassie was going to leave the show they began preparing for the jump scene with reaction memes (shown below).

That same day, Twitter user @alexonthedaily^[1] tweeted "WE FINALLY GOT THE FENCE JUMP MY FRIENDS, BUT AT WHAT COST?? #TheBachelor" (shown below). The tweet gained 900 retweets and 4,500 likes.

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