Suntukan sa Ace Hardware

Suntukan sa Ace Hardware
DateApril 15, 2016; 8 years ago (April 15, 2016)
Time15:00 PST (UTC+08:00)
VenueAce Hardware, SM City Lucena, Lucena, Quezon, Philippines
MotivePlaying along with the joke over a mock fist fighting event
Organised by"Bulbulito Balagbag: tuberong kulay green"
Participantsmore than 54,000 online participants
OutcomeAce Hardware held a promotional event in line with the fistfight theme, including setting up a mock boxing ring; no actual fist-fighting took place

Suntukan sa Ace Hardware (lit. 'Fistfight at Ace Hardware') was a Facebook event that took place on April 15, 2016, at an Ace Hardware branch at SM City Lucena in Lucena, Quezon, supposedly for a free-for-all fistfighting match. Thousands of Filipino netizens responded "going" on the event's page, which attracted attention from local news sources and made the event into an Internet meme.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ "Fictitious events like "Suntukan sa Ace Hardware" are the new memes". Coconut Manila. March 31, 2016. Retrieved May 26, 2016.
  2. ^ "'Suntukan sa Ace Hardware' goes viral on Facebook | Hashtag". GMA News. March 31, 2016. Retrieved May 26, 2016.
  3. ^ "What's This 'Suntukan Sa Ace Hardware'?". FHM Philippines. March 30, 2016. Retrieved May 26, 2016.