


In case you missed out on this internet sensation, however, you now have the chance to catch up with the thousands already out there. But with the Today show cast and crew putting out its own Harlem Shake video today (and can anyone look at Al Roker anymore without thinking of him pooping his pants?) and this guy Freddie Wong, a YouTube superstar, making his feelings known, the meme is being declared officially over by snarky bloggers at Gawker and esteemed journalists at The Atlantic. Personally, I haven’t gotten tired of them after studying and researching for the past several days. And at 30 seconds a pop, it’s so easy to watch one after the other after the other after the other. Then, when the bass drops, everyone and more joins in and dances crazily in costumes and with props. Impressive.Ītlanta film production company Bland Hack, which also made a video to hawk its HEbrew app for gay Jewish men, made its own Harlem Shake video on MARTA.īasically, in the Harlem Shake meme the song begins with one person wearing a mask or helmet dancing while others around him don’t seem to notice.

Digg's own Dan Fallon explained that joke here.The UGA men’s swim and dive team has more than 1 million views of its YouTube version of the Harlem Shake - underwater. That left the internet to make a very tired and played-out but still on-the-nose joke about Jeff Bezos writing a "why I'm Leaving New York" blog post. The meme: After declaring Queens one of two locations for Amazon's HQ2, the Seattle-based company announced on Thursday that it will not actually move to New York City. Here they are: this week's memes, ranked from worst to best. But the web is littered with tons of memes that never quite hit the mainstream and bounce around the weird corners of Twitter or Reddit, and that's why we're rolling out out a new recurring feature, Memes, Ranked.įor the week of February 10, we have a handful of contenders: Valentine's Day jokes, Will Smith as the Genie from Aladdin, Jeff Bezos leaving New York and tea. We try our best to cover the most important and confounding memes that come across the timeline. Here at Digg, we like to pride ourselves on aggregating, showcasing and covering "what the internet is talking about." And the internet is constantly talking about exciting, important things and also dumb things, and increasingly the language used to have those conversations is the language of memes.
