Hare Hare Yukai Dance (2006)

Sorry, I don’t think this constitutes as a meme. Are there any parodies of it like using characters not from the anime for example?

There are many many many parodies and flash mobs. Organizing them now.

Uploaded tons of examples, will upload more later. Cause there’s more…A lot more. o.O

Links no work!

@Fierce Pika

Which links? They all seem to be working for me. o.O

oh I think I see what you mean. The videos are doing strange things.

Appears to be fixed, I think all the code was just piled to closely together and getting messed up.

Both The Melancholy of Haruhi Suziyama and Lucky Star are produced by Kyoto Animation. So the fact that Lucky Star also featured the dance is not really a phenomenon, just a cross-promotion.

I don’t know. To me this just seems like people on the internet emulating what they see on TV. Or was the dance originally a fan creation and I somehow didn’t catch that?

Nope. The dance appears in the intro of the anime show. Fans of the show just copy it. Though, like the Caramelldansen, this appears to show some derivatives as well. I think we should just keep it in submissions until we can find something groundbreaking about its memetic value.

I think of the dance as a meme, it spread through the internet like crazy. Every convention I would go to tons of people were doing it, there were even panels simply for teaching it. if you search Hare Hare Yukai on youtube you’ll find hundreds upon hundreds of people doing their version in different settings.

How I see it, there was a huge spread through the internet across japan, it created multiple parodies. People across the world are emulating it. If you watch the Japanese video of the live performance you’ll see that the entire crowd is doing the actions. XD

So, the Macarena dance is also a meme ?

There’s a big difference with Caramelldansen. Caramelldansen was a swiss music that has been remixed and adapted. It became viral and led to derivatives because people saw the remix online and made their own clip from the curious “dance”.

No anime took it as an intro.

Here, it appears to be just fandom.

You wanna see a big crowd of people dancing in unison?

Please don’t make me start referring to Oprah’s fanbase as a memetic hub.

But this was quite viral, it became about the dance not about the Anime. The difference between this and Macerena is this wasn’t meant to be emulated, it was just an ending theme to a Japanese anime that for some reason caught on. Then spread viraly across the internet through sites like 2chan and across the sea to the states.

I dunno though, I’ll leave it up to you guys to decide. It’s just something I saw around everywhere both online and in real life.

But this did not start from the internet. The status of Hare Hare Yukai is a pop-culture reference. The reason some phrases from mainstream were confirmed is because the context of the phrase was changed by the internet. Right now Hare Hare Yukai still refers to Haruhi Suzumiya and nothing else. This is also the reason why the Lucky Star Opening article is not confirmed. Therefore, a super parodied sequence will still be a parody.

Fangirl in 3.. 2.. 1.. AAAH HARUHI AHH AJUDGJ SF I LOVE ITSUKI RAAAH YES OKAY YA
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Okay, like I said on the Lucky*Star article, [MAD].
I’m still going to write that article and explain it, so give me sometime.
I actually shouldn’t be in the office, it’s off-limits, and won’t be permitting until the end of September.

^ TBH Itsuki creeps me out…

It works just like Za Warudo, so it must be a meme!

finuhlly confirmed! also, the mini-size version is featured in this week’s KYM dance dance monday!

http://blog.knowyourmeme.com/post/246188926

well,at least theres no furry video based

Sorry, I don’t know how to embed the youtube video soz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ghd1SFF_W8

Those are the prisoners from a prison in the Philippines doing the Haruhi Dance.

This has to count: