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I am highly amused by this meme. XD

Seen this one around, suprised I can’t find more photos. could have sworn this was more wide spread.

Is the photo of the landscape one really related? Hasn’t Time Lapse photography been around since the 1800’s?

Interesting, I just watched this movie today. Now I see this. XD

Oh yea! I remember this, wasn’t there also a De motivational poster of this?

Had not heard of this, glad I have now. XD

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.

Nah, Epic Fail guy is a completely different entity. The uses aren’t really even that similar.

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

From what I can tell it started with full body pikas and moved evolved into the Headshot ones, so I don’t see why it shouldn’t be both pikas. Unless that’s too confusing. In the recent examples of give pikachu a face threads on 4chan people will use both full body pika and headshot pika.

Dug back through Something Awful, discovered the person who made the template thread got the image from ED. It was uploaded to ED on 22:55, 25 September 2008.

The luxembourg site was “08/09/2008 @ 13:03:35]” and appears to have been a contest for the users of that site.

@Captain Blubber

Interesting that it predates Something Awful. My hunch was that something Awful started that particular template but it appears that is not so. The earliest 4chan thread I could find used a full body Pikachu template. This Luxembourg site has this template only a few months after the early 4chan thread.

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AM I DOIN IT RITE?

This is a great meme. XD

This was the first meme I ever came across on my first days on 4chan. Scary scary days…

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

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

@Fierce Pika

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

on GraphJam there is a post leading me to believe this came from Something Awful Forums.

" capital L says:
March 30, 2008 at 11:08 pm

Or you might want to attribute the Something Awful forums, who did this originally. (and from which some of the JamPhat images were taken)"

I have not located the thread yet however.

I’ve seen a lot of this Two colored eye girl. It seems to pop up in other memes. Is it a meme itself?

This made me Lol when I found it. XD