Howard the Alien / Money Longer Alien

About

"Money Longer" Alien, also known as Howard the Alien, refers to a series of YouTube remixes and Ear Rape videos of an animated, metallic alien dancing to the Lil Uzi Vert song "Money Longer."

Origin

On February 5th, 2016, Lil Uzi Vert released the song "Money Longer" as his debut commercial single, later featuring on his third mixtape Lil Uzi Vert vs. the World (music video below, left).^[1]

About two years later, on December 2nd 2017, YouTuber^[2] 3D Animation Land published a video of a metallic alien dancing in front of a green background entitled "FREE GREEN SCREEN – METAL ALIEN DANCING." This animation comes from the 3D animation application iClone and is comprised of the "Opening" and "King Tut 01" animations.^[5] The video (shown below, right) received more than 5,800 views in less than one year.

The earliest known use of the video was published by iFunny ^[4] user Feat on July 3rd, 2018. The post features the alien dancing in front of a green background with the text "imagin having sleep paralysis and sleeping this as the foot of bed just fuckin breakin it down and you can't do anyhting about it like you hear the music in the back and everything bruh." The post (mirror below) received more than 12,000 positive votes in less than two weeks.

Spread

On July 8th, 2018, Instagrammer ^[3] sawisdead1234 published a video set to the song and featuring the alien dancing. The post (shown below) received more than 750 views and 70 likes.

That day, YouTuber Kawhi published a video of the original animation set to the song The post (shown below, left) received more than 5,000 views.

The following day, YouTuber d sufa published a video entitled "Alien Dancing to money longer bass boosted." The post (shown below, right) received more than 1,500 views in three days.

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