 The Bus Uncle is a Cantonese YouTube viral video clip of a quarrel between two men aboard a bus in Hong Kong on 27 April 2006 . While the older man , who came to be nicknamed the Bus Uncle , scolded the man seated behind him , a nearby passenger used a camera phone to record the entire incident . The resulting six @-@ minute video was uploaded to the Hong Kong Golden Forum , YouTube , and Google Videos . The clip became YouTube 's most viewed video in May 2006 , attracting viewers with its rhetorical outbursts and copious use of profanity by the older man , receiving 1 @.@ 7 million hits in the first 3 weeks of that month . 
