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Shoebody Bop, also known as Summoning Meme, refers to an acapella song created by YouTuber The Minute Hour and a viral video animated by Drue Langlois that shows a priest-like figure dressed in blue robes standing in a river and headbutting people dressed in white robes as other blue-robed people sing the "Shoebody Bop." The man continues headbutting the people handed off to him, who keep increasing in forehead strength until people dressed in red robes summon a spikey-headed demon. The animation style has been compared to Adult Swim. The song was originally posted in 2022 as a sequel to the 2018 animated video "Something Terribly Offensive," also posted by The Minute Hour and animated by Drue Langlois. In early 2025, The Minute Hour unlisted both videos and prompted Drue Langlois to repost the animations. The renewed virality of the video led to a TikTok and Instagram trend in March 2025 in which internet users used green-screened clips from the animation.

Origin

On August 26th, 2018, YouTuber^[1] The Minute Hour posted a video animated by Drue Langlois and voiced by him, depicting a man waiting in line at the bank hearing "Something Terribly Offensive," and head-butting (or head-bopping) the offending gentleman repeatedly. The video gathered over 3 million views in seven years.

On April 17th, 2022, The Minute Hour^[2] posted a sequel to the headbutting video titled, "The Shoebody Bop," showing the same angry man headbutting people handed to him by his henchmen on a river bank. The man headbutts each person and leaves them to float downstream, at one point encountering and headbutting a man with a tough-looking skull and a horned demon summoned by people in red robes. The video was also animated by Drue Langlois and gathered over 1.8 million views in three years.

In early 2025, The Minute Hour changed the name of their channel to GAMER.CHURCH and unlisted the aforementioned videos. The Shoebody Bop video was reposted by the animator Drue Langlois^[3] on January 10th, 2025, gathering over 1.9 million views in two months.

Spread

On September 4th, 2022, TikToker^[6] @thenealparks reposted the video, gathering over 13,000 views in three years. Another reupload of the video with a sped-up version of the song was posted by the user's alternate account @superflyscifiguy^[7] on November 26th, 2024, gathering over 400,000 plays and 60,000 likes in three months.

On January 31st, 2025, Redditor^[9] /u/Kind-Plantain2438 posted to the subreddit /r/TheRandomest asking for help finding the original video, gathering over 9,000 upvotes in two months.

On February 16th, the Instagram^[4] page @shoebody_bop_daily began posting a sped-up version of the Shoebody Bop, with a February 15th, 2025, upload^[5] gathering over 340,000 views and 19,000 likes in a month.

In March 2025, a green-screen version of a section of the Shoebody Bop video where men dressed in dark red robes raise a demon came to be used as a meme on Instagram and TikTok.

On March 8th, TikToker^[8] @synthosarcade posted a version of the meme to joke about the video game Marvel Rivals, gathering over 300,000 plays and 35,000 likes in ten days.

On March 15th, 2025, Instagram^[10] user @barnbuiltcrew posted a version of the meme that read, "Me and the boys casting a spell to make sure the engine rebuild holds," gathering over 360,000 plays and 28,000 likes in three days.

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