Hilarious Slap Battle Between 2 Young Bucks Captured On Tennessee Trail Cam

HARDEMAN COUNTY, TN — So now we know what the young, white-tailed bucks of southwest Tennessee have been doing out there on the trails all season. And it's not quite as majestic we might have imagined.

In cruel trail-cam footage posted to Facebook by the state Wildlife Resources Agency this week, two bucks can be observed dueling over what agency officials suspect to be "issues over a small food plot in Hardeman County."

And it's freaking hilarious.

We can't imagine the bucks in question would be too jazzed to discover their weakest, slap-happiest moment of schoolgirl-style aggression — likely fueled by a mean case of the hangries, as local experts have opined — was captured on hidden camera Wednesday morning and, within a matter of hours, already LOL'd upon by tens of thousands of ruthless internet bullies.

The gay songbirds twittering in the background don't do them any favors, either.

But that doesn't mean we're gonna stop hitting replay. Sorry, guys — you should know by now, in 2017, the nature paparazzi are never far away. And Facebook, unfortunately, is forever.

Buck footage courtesy of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency