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Yeah. A single video explains a lot.
But anyway, the original song is called bloomin' feeling, and it first was remixed on nico nico by… someone. Then made it's way to YouTube. The Jack Black video is the one with the highest view count, and the other videos have a lot less, considering that it got 130,000+ views. It's not a meme.

I posted what i found on it 3 months ago on a different entry.

So I'm gonna copypasta my own comment:

The Bloomin Octagon may play a role in another meme- The “bloomin’ meme” seems to be minor Japanese fad (i think its minor) in origin, appearing on NND as early as 2009. However, since the Bloomin’ Octagon video was posted to NND, literally the day after it was posted on Youtube, it may have had a resurgence of popularity. See here (account needed to watch)
The sauce song would be here.
Japanese videos on Youtube-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=korctcpL4Ig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UmvTRkQLXA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzRspriWSJg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSsr-lgoRko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRqb-LXmGa4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtLbQ9u7Du0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-kk_os_xuU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJdLxUNX2BA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdWwqUNKKhY
Anyway, interesting spinoff.

I don't know how accurate this info is anymore, but from what i can see – I second Chef.

I do admit though, that this is awesome:

CAUTION: may be annoying

Seems cool enough as a MAD fad. Let's see what the Japanese researchers think of it.