A video showing a Maricopa High School classroom assault from 2022 resurfaced yesterday and quickly went viral on X, drawing more than 1.6 million views after being reposted by a large meme account.

The account Mad Clips, which has 1.1 million followers on the platform, posted the 26-second clip Monday with the caption: “How he Casually Ruined His Life.” By Tuesday afternoon, the post had surpassed 1.6 million views and generated thousands of comments and shares.

The video, originally recorded in March 2022, shows a male student standing in a computer lab raising a blue-backed classroom chair with metal legs and striking another student who was seated with a hood over his head. The victim does not appear to move after being struck, while classmates react audibly in the background.

The incident was first reported locally that month when Pinal Central obtained and described the phone-recorded footage but declined to publish the video because it involved multiple minors.

According to that reporting and statements released at the time by the Maricopa Unified School District, the student who wielded the chair was charged with aggravated assault. The victim was assessed by the school’s registered nurse and released to a parent. No ambulance transport was required.

The district said in 2022 that Maricopa Police Department had been notified and that the school administration was handling discipline in accordance with district policy. Police confirmed at the time that the student accused in the incident was released to his parents.

X’s AI assistant, Grok, responded to user questions by identifying the video as having originated at Maricopa High School in dozens of comment threads beneath yesterday’s Mad Clips post. Those AI-generated replies prompted other users to share screenshots and references linking the clip to the original 2022 incident, including images that had previously appeared in the comment section of a 2022 news report about the assault.

Mad Clips did not disclose where it obtained the footage. The viral post has reignited online discussion about school violence and the long digital afterlife of recorded incidents.

Watch the viral clip for yourself: