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Maluco Dançando E Twitter Batendo Palma (English: "Crazy Guy Dancing And Twitter Clapping") refers to a viral clip from the Looney Tunes featuring Bugs Bunny Clapping and Yosemite Sam Dancing. The video is overlayed with a Portuguese text under Yosemite "Louco" (English: "Crazy") and below Bugs "Twitter," showing how some people on the platform would incentivize weird behavior. The clip went viral around July 2022 on Twitter.

Origin

On November 11th, 2020, Twitter^[1] user @srconsta commented on a tweet about a news article about a Brazil x EUA meme war. He used a GIF featuring Bugs Bunny clapping while Yosemite Sam is dancing and added the caption in Portuguese "clapping hands for the crazy guy to dance," mocking the meme war. The tweet garnered 14 likes and one comment in three years (seen below)

The GIF is originally from a June 12th, 1948, episode of the Bugs Bunny cartoon titled "Bugs Bunny Rides Again." A clip showing Yosemite dancing was uploaded on YouTube^[2] by @olivierbaghdadi on March 15th, 2016, which garnered 291,000 views and 3,700 likes in seven years. (seen below)

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The GIF's first viral appearance was posted on July 7th, 2022, by Twitter^[3] user @lianamachado. She used the animation to comment on Twitter's user environment with the caption "Every day is always the same [thing]". The post garnered her 24,000 likes and 4,294 retweets in a year. (seen below)

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