--- title: Teen Flipping Water Bottle on Table Video Goes Viral description: A teen who flipped a plastic water bottle on a table for a talent show has become the Internet's latest obsession. canonical: https://time.com/4349300/teen-flipping-water-bottle-viral-video/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-26T16:19:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:32:45.245Z og:title: The Internet Is Freaking Out Over This Video of a Teen Flipping a Water Bottle og:description: "It's the most lit thing I've ever experienced" og:url: https://time.com/4349300/teen-flipping-water-bottle-viral-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Internet Is Freaking Out Over This Video of a Teen Flipping a Water Bottle twitter:description: "It's the most lit thing I've ever experienced" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Internet Is Freaking Out Over This Video of a Teen Flipping a Water Bottle > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer May 26, 2016 4:19 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer May 26, 2016 4:19 PM UTC > [](https://twitter.com/WesleyManning6/status/735150286755528704) Mike Senatore — a teen who flipped a plastic water bottle on a table — has become the [Internet’s latest obsession](http://time.com/4346230/female-james-bond-gillian-anderson/). A [now-viral](http://time.com/4345177/chewbacca-mask-video-ebay/) video documenting his feat shows the high school senior successfully performing the trick at a [talent show](http://time.com/3661295/lithuania-knife-thrower/), causing his classmates to go wild as he walks off the stage. “It’s just surreal,” [Senatore told TODAY](http://www.today.com/news/teen-flips-bottle-talent-show-internet-loses-its-mind-t94816). “You just can’t process it. Something I do every day just became so big. People who know me know that I flip bottles.” **Read More:** [May We All Be as Happy as This Woman and Her Chewbacca Mask](http://time.com/4343234/chewbacca-mask-woman/?iid=sr-link1) The original clip has been liked nearly 69 thousand times and retweeted more than 47 thousand times since being posted on Twitter Tuesday by Senatore’s friend [Wes Manning](https://twitter.com/WesleyManning6). “When I first showed Mike the video he loved it, but neither of us knew it would get this huge,” Manning told TODAY. “I’m just happy to have been able to show everyone how awesome it was! 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