#JustAddZebras
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About
#JustAddZebras is a hashtag started by John Oliver that features people editing videos to include footage of a dancing man in a zebra costume.
Origin
On Sunday, March 19th, John Oliver closed Last Week Tonight With John Oliver with a story about how people in Bolivia were dressing as zebras and dancing to make traffic jams more bearable. This inspired the show to devise a segment where they inserted their own dancing zebra with other news clips in the hope of making them more lighthearted (shown below).
This just made my week
— Kelly (@Keljhou) March 20, 2017iamjohnoliver</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/LastWeekTonight">LastWeekTonight… ohmaddow</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MaddowBlog">MaddowBlog 😂😂😂#justaddzebras pic.twitter.com/YPHS2awF8Y
Spread
The same day, the show's YouTube channel uploaded a silent, 23 minute video of a man in a zebra costume dancing in front of a green screen so that video creators could insert the footage into various other video clips. They then encouraged users to share their creations with the hashtag #JustAddZebras
Over the next two days, dozens of videos using the dancing zebra appeared on YouTube and Twitter. [1] The influx of #JustAddZebras videos was covered by Uproxx,[2] Huffington Post,[3] Time,[4] and more.
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1] Twitter – #JustAddZebras search
[2] Uproxx – The Best ‘Just Add Zebras’ Memes In Response To John Oliver’s Green Screen Challenge
[3] Huffington Post – John Oliver’s Weird Trump-Crashing Zebra Is The New Meme You’ll See Everywhere
[4] TIME – John Oliver Wants You to Add Dancing Zebras to All the Depressing News
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Top Comments
marik_azemus
Mar 22, 2017 at 11:23AM EDT
Nanalan is the source of all evil
Mar 22, 2017 at 11:08AM EDT