Breakdancing Bear

Work in progress

About

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.