What is Love? (2005)

added Mar 17, 2009 at 11:32AM UTC

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What is Love is a song created by Haddaway in 1993.

The song reached #2 in the UK and Germany, but it reached #1 in thirteen other countries, all of them European or Asian. In the United States the song reached #11 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #12 in Australia. It was a very popular song…but that’s just the start of the fad.

In the 1990s popular TV program Saturday Night Live started doing their “Night At The Roxbury” sketches, which featured two guys who go to clubs to get girls and universally ending in disaster. Usually the SNL host would be a third person out clubbing. The sketches were notable for shots of the trio driving, bobbing their heads to What Is Love. A particular neck-crink style

In June 2005 a YTMND was published featuring an animated gif from the SNL clip, heads bobbing endlessly. It was a huge success and the variants poured forth. What is Love was paired with goth singers, Bill Cosby, the O RLY? owl, iPod commercials, video game characters, and so many others.

In February 15, 2007, user JoeandTom of Newgrounds submitted a flash movie called What is Love?. It used South Park-style anination and told a story of a man trying to get a girl to like him. JoeandTom won “Daily Feature” and “Weekly Users’ Choice,” and his animated stands today with a score of 4.34 with 46,455 votes and 574,969 views.

But the question remains… what is love?

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14 Comments

Goomba
Apr 24, 2009 at 02:14PM UTC , Goomba wrote:

There are so many of these. I like the Earthbound one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAuZD8aYF1c

james
Apr 27, 2009 at 04:28AM UTC , james wrote:

what is love?
(insert photo of raptor jesus)

James Woods
Jun 16, 2009 at 06:59AM UTC , James Woods wrote:

Ah, yes. I’m surprised this hasn’t already been confirmed

Chris Menning
Jun 16, 2009 at 12:42PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

This is odd. The meme entry shows up as Confirmed and Submision.

Taryn
Jun 17, 2009 at 12:06AM UTC , Taryn wrote:

Glitch, chris?

Quantum
Jun 17, 2009 at 08:59AM UTC , Quantum wrote:

epic, great meme

Taryn
Jun 18, 2009 at 02:37AM UTC , Taryn wrote:

Chris, I think this is a duplicate, one has just a “?” and this has “!?”

Chris Menning
Jun 18, 2009 at 04:45PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

Yup. There was a glitch. It sounds like Greg is looking into it.

Jon McLaren
Jul 14, 2009 at 05:16AM UTC , Jon McLaren wrote:

please add to the page that the meme what is love got even more popular after Pepsi Released their superbowl advertisement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVYzxxgKXTY

Tomberry
Aug 18, 2009 at 06:31AM UTC , Tomberry wrote:

I love that meme.
I’m a huge Silent Hill fan.
And then, someone combined the two.

What is love ?

Xskill
Aug 19, 2009 at 10:04AM UTC , Xskill wrote:

They forgot about it in “Don’t Eat the Mushroom.”

pokecatchsoul
Aug 26, 2009 at 12:19AM UTC , pokecatchsoul wrote:

I got a glitch in animation. they try to take overthe other pics by starting to go the animation.

pokecatchsoul
Aug 26, 2009 at 12:21AM UTC , pokecatchsoul wrote:

and they battle other animations by starting others

pokecatchsoul
Oct 10, 2009 at 09:11PM UTC , pokecatchsoul wrote:

why not add scary ones? disaster girl, chubbles, and tails doll is fine too….

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