“Hold my beer” GIFs are the kind of goofy internet posts that will make Baby Boomers roll their eyes and start muttering about millennials. But they all did it in their generation too! “Hold my beer” is just the new trend of videos featuring people doing mostly stupid things. There are exactly two ways the scenarios can play out: either really amazingly or really badly. It’s usually really, really badly.
The name comes from the old story about two friends drunkenly starting to goof around. Inevitably someone will say, “Dude, hold my beer!” so they can do something colossally stupid. Unfortunately for those people but fortunately for us, the internet now exists. Here are 60 of the best “hold my beer” moments.
1. Hold my beer while I perform this dangerous driving stunt.
A #Toronto driver was spotted trying to clean off their windshield while driving along the 401 https://t.co/zYeXkzbk2W pic.twitter.com/JpADHQRpKs
— blogTO (@blogTO) January 24, 2019
This is a bit far off from the “ten and two” rule that our drivers’ ed instructors taught us all. When was the class about scraping ice off your windshield while driving down the freeway in the middle of traffic — in the winter? I must have missed that class.
2. Hold my beer while I try to combine a bike and fire.
https://i.imgur.com/zdtIwgD.gifv
This ended pretty much exactly the way we expected it to … with the world’s most painful-looking faceplant. This guy decided to try riding a bike through a campfire and got a face full of coals for his trouble. That’s a party trick he probably won’t repeat.
3. Hold my beer while I make scaling a wall look easy.
While some “hold my beer” moments are fails, this one is nothing short of amazing. These three men make it look like a walk in the park to launch themselves over a 15-foot wall. That takes some unbelievable physical strength — and some pretty awesome teamwork.
4. Hold my beer while I champion this escalator.
This looks pretty terrifying, but this guy actually makes it. Not only does he manage to stay on the entire way down, he even sticks the landing and casually walks it off. Let’s be fair: even if you were on that escalator, you’d still be impressed with that guy.
5. Hold my beer while I demonstrate “don’t try this at home.”
Life is never boring if you have a pond, a couple of friends, and an enormous backhoe to swing on. This is definitely unsafe and we’re not endorsing it … but on the other hand, it does look a little bit fun. But also, terrifying.
6. Hold my beer while I make the best of my broken bike.
HMB while I ride to work with no handlebar. from r/holdmybeer
This guy is definitely a glass-half-full kind of guy. Broken bike? No problem — he still has places to go. It’s pretty amazing to see him pedaling along with a big smile on his face, holding on to nothing but the air.
7. Hold my beer while I literally risk my life on a waterslide.
You look at this waterslide and you think you see all of it … and then you realize exactly how much you’ve missed. That thing is a total death trap, but we’ll also admit that it looks like a lot of fun. Ah, humans, risking their lives for a good time.
8. Hold my beer while I fist bump this cop.
This moment makes your jaw drop more and more as it continues. First, he’s riding his motorcycle and starting to rise up in the air. Then you realize that he’s trying to touch the driver in that car. And, yes, that’s a cop, and they just exchanged a fist bump.
9. Hold my beer while my friends and I pull off these sick moves.
Physics are amazing: these three young men have found out how to use them when messing around. With a little maneuvering, they’ve figured out how to make a human conjoined top. Their bow ties are pretty awesome too.
10. Hold my beer while I … wait, never mind, I got it.
This woman had the shock of her life when a foul ball was hit at a baseball game. She expected to have a pleasant night out with some friends, watch the teams hit some baseballs, and enjoy a beer. She didn’t anticipate one of those baseballs ending up IN her beer.
11. Hold my beer while I try to ski.
This poor person struck disaster the moment he reached the slopes. Immediately, both skis flew off and he was sliding down the hill. And then … he just kept falling, and falling, and falling…
12. Hold my beer while I let my friends talk me into this.
One thing is certain: she must really, REALLY trust those friends. She’s willing to let them strap her into a harness, hop onto their tractor, pull her, and then let her go flying into the air. Not many of us would be that trusting — or that foolish.
13. Hold my beer while I make it SO CLOSE to pulling off that skiing-on-water thing.
We’ve all seen the professional athletes at the winter Olympics go flying down the hill in style and smoothly skim the top of the water. They barely even notice that it’s there. This lady made it so close before taking a dive that deserved a gold medal all on its own.
14. Hold my beer while I become the person who rode the snowball.
There’s so much to do in the snow: build a snowman, make snow angels, have a snowball fight. Or you could make an enormous snow boulder and send it careening down a hill, Indiana Jones style. You know that someone is going to try and jump on top of it — that guy.
15. Hold my beer while I endanger everyone on this escalator.
This guy was not nearly as skilled when it came to the “riding-the-escalator” trick. In fact, he was going downhill the whole time, both literally and figuratively. First, he got a wall fixture to the groin and then, he was catapulted off the side — into a likely very angry stranger.
16. Hold my beer while I decidedly do not do a front flip.
Remember back in kindergarten during your physical education classes, when your teacher taught you how to do a somersault? Then, when you finally managed to do it straight, they clapped for you and you felt proud? Yeah, this guy wasn’t there that day.
17. Hold my beer while I make pools way more complicated than they need to be.
Who needs regular old cannonballs, pencil dives, or belly flops when you can do what this guy did: run from the opposite end of the property while ripping his clothes off before vaulting off the house and flopping straight onto his back?
18. Hold my beer while I almost cause a major traffic accident.
You start watching this one and think, “Yeah, I see what’s happening here — that car on the left is going a little fast around the corner.” But the car on the left is doing absolutely nothing wrong. Oh no — they’re not the ones we should be watching here.
19. Hold my beer while I make the game of pool awesome.
How long did this guy have to practice to develop these talents? How much time has he spent playing pool? Yes, yes, you’re very impressive — now are you keeping score, or am I?
20. Hold my beer while I make playtime extreme.
When it comes to playgrounds, even older kids can have a lot of fun. They may be out of elementary school, but they can still sit on the swings, climb from the monkey bars, and clamber on the jungle gym. Or they can use a dirt bike to make the merry-go-round completely deadly.
21. Hold my beer while I literally flirt with death.
HMB while I climb onto a moving train and jump off a tall bridge into a river from r/holdmybeer
This guy could literally be a poster child for things not to do if you want to live. First, he hops onto a moving train, which is super dangerous all on its own. Second, he rides it onto a bridge and leaps off, plummeting into the water. Is he okay? We’re actually worried.
22. Hold my beer while I find that street pole.
This guy was gearing up to do something really cool while immortalizing it on video. Unfortunately for him, one very particular moment was immortalized instead. On the bright side, he now knows exactly where that pole is…
22. Hold my beer while I find that street pole.
When there are no roller coasters around, you have to make your own fun. This man has perfected the skill in his little boat. Be honest and say that you’d be just as nervous on this as on an amusement park ride.
24. Hold my beer while I trash this place.
This guy ended his ride with a spectacular spill, but not before he absolutely nailed the main event. This is seriously impressive, and it just goes to show that some people have a lot of talent even when they’re just messing around.
25. Hold my beer while I channel the Crocodile Hunter.
Hold my beer while I fight this crocodile. from r/holdmybeer
When it comes to getting a crocodile off your boat there aren’t a whole lot of things you can do. Whatever your method, you’re going to end up getting into a fight. These two men took it to the next level with some of their tactics.
26. Hold my beer while I sled in style.
When you don’t have a sled, there are a couple of different things you can try. Kids all over the world use cardboard boxes, dinner trays, and other items to still have fun in the snow. But we doubt too many of them have brought an armchair out to the slopes.
27. Hold my beer while I tick off a horse.
If there’s one thing anyone who’s ever interacted with horses will tell you, it’s not to startle them. What’s an example of how you can startle a horse? Oh, how about jumping on their back without any warning?
28. Hold my beer while I start a lawsuit.
There are good bowlers and there are bad bowlers … and then there’s this guy. He decided to launch his bowling ball at the ceiling above the lanes. There’s nothing like a night out bowling with your friends only to end up in a lifelong ban from the bowling alley.
29. Hold my beer while I make all sorts of bad decisions.
HMB and set my hair on fire and feed me Doritos. (x-post ProCSS) from r/holdmybeer
There are a lot of moving parts to this one. Let’s see, he’s letting his friends light his hair on fire and feed him flaming chips while one of them lights a cigarillo off his hair. They must have been really, really bored that day.
30. Hold my beer while I bring this party to a halt.
You know how it goes at a party: everyone is dancing, mingling, and having a good time when that one guy decides to launch himself into the middle of the crowd and destroy a table. Oh, wait, that’s not a normal thing? This guy must have missed the memo.
31. Hold my beer while I plan for my facial reconstruction surgery.
https://gfycat.com/popularpleasantgalapagosalbatross
Ah, here’s a classic “hold my beer” moment where the subjects of the video have probably actually been consuming way too much alcohol. Or maybe they’re completely sober and this is how coordinated they are on a regular basis. Either way, that looks like it really hurt.
32. Hold my beer while I make golf more interesting than it’s ever been before.
Is it the rule that when something is boring all you need to do to liven it up is to add fire? If that’s the case, this guy has finally figured out, for the first time in history, how to make golf interesting. Just add lots and lots of fire.
33. Hold my beer while I breathe fire in the worst way possible.
The idea of flaming shots sounds sort of fun. The absolute wrong way to do one is to inhale it and then cough out a ball of flame like a dragon with bad seasonal allergies. That’s just scary and wrong.
34. Hold my beer while I hop down to the beach.
Does it make this one better considering he’s actually in the process of opening a beer when he falls? That is a really long way to go, so hopefully, he was okay. But really, opening a beer can as the video started was just asking for internet immortality.
35. Hold my beer while I win at jumping.
Parkour is hard, double jumping is almost impossible. This guy gets about as close as you possibly can. Hopefully, he now stays on solid ground.
36. Hold my beer while I combine two forms of transportation.
There’s nothing like riding a motorcycle along the coast on a sunny day. That is, of course, except seamlessly transitioning to a boat. Well, “seamless” might be a little generous in this case.
37. Hold my beer while I pull off the best-coordinated pool jump of all time.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BkYa6KogdPo/
Here’s a perfect example of how “hold my beer” moments can either be awful or awesome. This one is undeniably awesome. You keep thinking that something bad is going to happen, but this group pulls their performance off perfectly.
38. Hold my beer while I forget to watch where I’m going.
https://imgur.com/aRdbON9
It’s bad enough to forget to watch where you’re going and wipe out on your bike. It’s even worse when it turns out that you’ve actually run into someone’s car. The very worst? Finding out that that car was equipped with a camera that caught the whole thing.
39. Hold my beer while I go to the ball game.
This one makes you do a bit of a double take. Yes, you saw that right: that player just flipped the bat so quickly you barely even caught it. He’s probably perfected it by doing it thousands of times.
40. Hold my beer while I enter the pool with style.
There are the ways that everyone gets into the pool, and then there’s this guy. He’s making his entrance with a float and a gymnastics routine. What other way is there to swim with an inflatable giant fish float?
41. Hold my beer while I change the game of basketball.
There are slam dunks, and then there are slam dunks made while standing on a moving bicycle. This guy has so many things to brag about for the rest of his life. Luckily, he also has video evidence as proof.
42. Hold my beer while I’m Dan.
Here’s what we know about Dan: Dan is killing it. We also know that Dan needs a new pair of jeans because those holes are getting pretty big. Maybe they’re from all his killer dance moves.
43. Hold my beer while I’m AWESOME…and then I’m not.
This motorcycle rider gets so close to pulling off an amazing and terrifying stunt. Unfortunately, at the last moment, he did exactly what the rest of us would do. Thank God for helmets and vests because that looks like it hurt.
44. Hold my beer while I regret taking this sparkler bet.
Do you know what’s a terrible thing to have in a bar? A sparkler because there are exactly zero good ideas that people will have once they’ve been drinking. For example, they might try to stick an entire lit sparkler in their mouths and then realize it’s a very bad idea.
45. Hold my beer while I make so many bad decisions in one.
Wow, there are so many different parts to this one. He’s sledding down the stairs, indoors, already primed for an injury. What could possibly go wrong about adding lots and lots of fire?
46. Hold my beer while this doesn’t go the way I planned.
This one was completely predictable. There are only one of two ways this could have gone: very, very well or very, very badly. Unfortunately for this guy, it didn’t go well.
47. Hold my beer while I demonstrate why it’s good that snow is soft.
This person was doing so well as he came flying over the snowbank. Unfortunately for him, he wasn’t able to stick the landing. At least it was a soft one.
48. Hold my beer while I make ping-pong super cool.
How many times did this guy have to practice before he got that exactly right? Our guess is in the thousands. The good news for him is that all his previous attempts probably qualified for “hold my beer” moments, too, just of a different kind.
49. Hold my beer while I make you wonder how humans have survived this long.
He seems very confident in his ability to break this car window with his own head. We’re not sure if he’s ever tried this before, but he’s definitely determined. Once he starts, he’s going to keep trying until he gets it right. If at first, you don’t succeed…
50. Hold my beer while I improve on children’s toys.
https://imgur.com/AYCr4yu
There are swing sets and kiddie basketball hoops, and then there are this guy’s swing sets and basketball hoops. Take it from him: you can have fun with your childhood toys no matter what your age.
51. Hold my beer while I bring this wedding to a standstill.
https://imgur.com/rJII2LD
People go to weddings to celebrate the love between a new couple and, of course, to have a good time. With music playing and everyone getting ready to dance, there are only a few things that can bring the celebration to a halt. Unfortunately, hitting a bridesmaid in the head is one of them.
52. Hold my beer while I test out my ride in style.
This just keeps getting better the longer you look at it. No, he’s not wearing a shirt, and yes, that is a food cooler he’s riding on. He doesn’t have time for your questions; he has places to go.
53. Hold my beer while I end a friendship.
Somehow, neither of them saw this coming when he tried to smash a can on her head. From the expression on that girl’s face, that may have been the last time those friends cracked open some beers together.
54. Hold my beer while I hit myself with the birthday cake.
Visualization of what I was talking about in my last tweet: pic.twitter.com/Yh4CIT5XdA
— It’s Bussmann (@BusstheMann) February 27, 2016
There are only two options for what could make a cake this hard: it’s frozen, or that’s not a real cake. If it’s the second option, that’s the meanest thing anyone has ever done to someone on their birthday.
55. Hold my beer while I learn how not to play with fire.
One thing is for sure: alcohol and fire make a very, very bad combination. On the other hand, those two themes do lead to a lot of “hold my beer” moments. For that reason, the internet should be grateful for them.
56. Hold my beer while I demonstrate this terrifying skill.
When you’ve got nothing to do, you may as well pack up and go day drinking in the forest with your buddies. Don’t forget the axes and hatchets to practice your throwing skills. This is completely normal in every way.
57. Hold my beer while I forget what my mom said about “no running.”
“HMB while I run around this car in sandals” from r/holdmybeer
Didn’t his mother ever tell him about not running in his sandals? And of course, no running around the pool. Both of those are prime examples of why videos like this one exist.
58. Hold my beer while we manage to make golf exciting.
To perfect this trick, these two guys had to practice a lot. That requires significant time playing golf and a lot of dedication. Because let’s face it…golf on its own is not all that exciting.
59. Hold my beer while I get an inch from death.
https://imgur.com/1j6snoU
This person can count himself lucky that he had just enough time to scramble out of the way. If he doesn’t know just how close he came, he’s got it all captured on video. That shrapnel was inches away.
60. Hold my beer while I show why I don’t work in an office anymore.
HMB While I stand on a spinning office chair from r/holdmybeer
“Never stand on a swivel chair” instructs that classic children’s book. Unfortunately for this guy, there wasn’t a chapter called, “It’ll make you infamous on the internet.”
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