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Scooby-Doo Witch Doctor GIF, also known as Ooga Booga Intensifies, refers to a GIF featuring a masked "witch doctor" from a 1970 episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, titled "A Tiki Scare is No Fair." The figure is shown wearing a black mask with white features, a red robe and holding a staff with a skull on it. The GIF is typically used by Black people online to joke about inflicting curses and doing voodoo and black magic on other people. While the original episode aired in 1970, it first came to be used on some 4chan boards in 2020 before becoming a prevalent reaction meme on Twitter / X.

Origin

The Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "A Tiki Scare is No Fair" aired on October 17th, 1970, and showed the gang's Hawaii vacation getting interrupted by a "witch doctor" who warns them about the wrath of the god "Mano Tiki Tia." The chase sequence from the episode was reposted to YouTube^[1] on May 17th, 2023, where it gathered over 8,000 views in two years.

The GIF saw some usage on 4chan in early 2020, as seen in a /lit/^[2] (literature) thread from February 9th, 2020, and a /pol/^[3] (political) thread from April 8th, 2020.

On November 20th, 2020, Tenor^[4] user infamousgreg posted the earliest known GIF version of the Scooby-Doo Witch Doctor to the site. Tenor is the in-site GIF feature used on Twitter / X.

Spread

On February 5th, 2024, Twitter / X^[5] user @_JordansLyric tweeted the GIF of the Scooby-Doo witch doctor to react to a screenshot that suggested that Meghan Markle was somehow responsible for King Charles's failing health. The post gathered over 4,000 likes in a year.

Twitter / X^[6] user @beaucoupbougee tweeted a GIF of the witch doctor from Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! alongside a tweet that read, "Me at my 'Black Job'" on June 27th, 2024. The tweet gathered over 66,000 likes in a year.

On September 3rd, 2024, X^[7] user @46wavo tweeted about Ice Spice "beefing" with " two Nigerians and a Trinidadian," joking that she might get turned into a goat by witchcraft. The post gathered over 130,000 likes in nine months.

On October 24th, 2024, X^[8] user @solomonmissouri tweeted the witch doctor GIF to react to a tweet that read, "Nigga at work said he was voting for Trump the other day and then came to work this morning talkin bout his stomach hurt after he ate McDonald’s." The tweet received over 11,000 likes in eight months.

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