How to Load a Gun

How to Load a Gun is a video on the Poppy YouTube channel. It is the 109th video of the Poppy era. It was uploaded on December 8th, 2016.

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The video presents itself as a tutorial on how to load a handgun. Poppy breaks this down into three steps: putting a bullet into the gun's magazine, putting the magazine into the gun, and pressing the slide stop. However, she does not refer to the parts of the gun by their proper names, instead calling the magazine "this thing" and the slide stop a "button". She then ends the video by saying she likes the gun because of its appearance. The video is most likely a commentary on gun violence, or how such violence is represented in the media.

Transcript
Hi, I'm Poppy.

In this video, I'm showing you how to load a gun.

First you need to put a bullet inside of this thing.

Today we are using hollow-point bullets.

Next you put this thing in here.

Then press this button.

And now this gun is loaded.

I like this gun because of the way it looks.

Trivia

 * Several days after its initial upload in 2016, the video was made unlisted for over two years, likely due to its serious subject matter. The video was made public again sometime after February 2019.