Breakdancing Bear (2003)

added Jul 17, 2009 at 07:47PM UTC

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The Breakdancing Bear GIF and its variants are mostly found as avatars on forums the world over.

Origin

We Know Something You Don’t Know is a song from the 2003 album Music for the Mature B-Boy, from the Southampton artist, DJ Format. It was released as the first single from the album on 10 March 2003 and reached #73 in the UK Singles Chart.

The music video featured breakdancing animals, the most notable being a dancing bear. The video evolved online mostly in the form of short animated gifs—despite the fact that few knew where they came from or the song they were associated with. In particular, a break-dancing sequence involving the dancer in the bear suit was parodied and redrawn many times with different characters in his place.

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12 Comments

Jamie Dubs
Jul 17, 2009 at 10:42PM UTC , Jamie Dubs wrote:

seems kind of niche, but the anigif is awesome :D

fletcher mackay
Jul 18, 2009 at 03:13AM UTC , fletcher mackay wrote:

damn furries, corrupting our internets.

Richie McNuggets
Jul 18, 2009 at 03:19AM UTC , Richie McNuggets wrote:

DO WANT!

Barry Gold
Jul 19, 2009 at 06:39PM UTC , Barry Gold wrote:

Man the amount of times I’ve seen that :-D

Jackal Lantern
Jul 30, 2009 at 08:30PM UTC , Jackal Lantern wrote:

Nerts… I’ve seen over 9000 variants of this thing, but I can’t remember where! X-O

Imma have to do some lurkin’ and see if anything comes up.

Tomberry
Jul 30, 2009 at 09:14PM UTC , Tomberry wrote:

Let me help you with the popular Vegeta Break dancing.
Vegeta is everywhere. Expect him.

Chris Menning
Aug 19, 2009 at 04:15AM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

Okay, I’ve just got done sorting through the 496 results from a TinEye image comparison search.
The vast majority of instances are either the original gif, or the Sparta edition. I was able to find another 11 variants, mostly with people shopping their own heads onto the bear.
I’m not sure if this is a reflection of the actual variants, or if it was limited by TinEye’s algorithm. Since TinEye searches for similar looking images, it didn’t pick up on Vegeta. I’m thinking there may be other “redraws” that TinEye wasn’t able to detect.

Jostin Asuncion
Aug 25, 2009 at 04:19AM UTC , Jostin Asuncion wrote:

I know that this video doesn’t really count, but it features a dancing guy in a bear costume. It was performed by my favorite Australian EVAR, Tim Minchin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wLHVjOos8Y

Chris Menning
Aug 30, 2009 at 07:29PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

There have been a handful of YTMNDs but the viewcounts are mostly <1000. I’d say the YTMND portion of the meme is too nice to bother making much note of.

steam-bot
Sep 11, 2009 at 01:02AM UTC , steam-bot wrote:

pyramid head?
lolwut

kikinak
Oct 01, 2009 at 04:43PM UTC , kikinak wrote:

i was waiting for this, about time it was added

Bam1Ball
Feb 02, 2010 at 07:57PM UTC , Bam1Ball wrote:

LOL… Could this be the original clip?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH_IDRwdsL8

Sure is funny though… breakdancing bear in christian rap music..

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