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Move over, PSY and Carly Rae Jepsen: There's a new video craze that has exploded online....
The Harlem Shake Meme Is Dead
In the wee hours of Feb.
13, 2013, the hosts of the Today show committed meme murder. The moment they aired their take on the so-called "Harlem Shake" was the moment the Internet's meme guardians pronounced the viral, trap-soundtracked dance craze dead.
It was one week old.
The meme's life was so short, you'd be forgiven for not knowing it even existed.
It's called "The Harlem Shake," and in the style of flash-mobbing, it involves breaking into dance steps at random to the beat of Baauer's song.
For those who didn't catch our first Harlem Shake post, here's what you need to know to mourn properly. These goofy 30-second videos all started with one person (usually in a mask) wriggling along to the build-up of a wobbly EDM track.
Then when the beat dropped, everyone in the frame who'd been sitting idly would join in for some uninhibited looniness. Such videos brought joy to many souls wasting time on Youtube.
The meme is survived by the song which tied all the videos together.
Baauer's "Harlem Shake" remains one of the most popular tracks in a budding offshoot of EDM called trap. Hip-hop purists will tell you that this emerging genre rips