How many harlem shake videos are on youtube

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About Contact Advertise Follow Us. Memeburn Tech-savvy insight and analysis Ventureburn Startup news for emerging markets Gearburn Incisive reviews for the gadget obsessed Motorburn Because cars are gadgets. Privacy Policy Advertise with us Contribute. No article may be published or reproduced without prior written permission from Memeburn. Since then, many versions of the famous video have been made in offices, studios, agencies and even on the streets by groups of people, and posted, viewed and shared by huge numbers of internet users.

Even our site Awwwards. Do you want see more? Spin the Harlem Shake Roulette! Activate black option. The awards of design, creativity and innovation on the internet. Magazine for designers and web developers. Origin "Harlem Shake" is an electronic production of Baauer , the artistic name of American music producer Harry Rodrigues. Harlem Shake has no central reference point. The most popular has been one of the legions of later imitators - a version by a Norwegian army unit posted on 10 February by Kenneth Hakonsen.

But there may be parallels in how "everyone thought it would be dead" long before it was, suggests Wood. This is growing despite mainstream attention. Normally that's the moment it 'jumps the shark'.

In the case of Harlem Shake, mainstream attention arrived early. YouTube video producer Filthy Frank technically produced the first video as part of a compilation. Australians Sunny Coast Skate then established the format. Between 2 and 6 February there was little action. On 6 February, Twitter users began circulating the videos in higher numbers, before the trend was picked up by music producers Diplo and Collegehumor. By 9 February, a local news station in the US had already made its own version.

National US morning programme The Today Show did a version on 13 February and commentators were quick to declare the meme dead. It didn't die though. It carried on gaining in popularity. Allocca feels that mainstream attention actually sustains these trends and increases their popularity rather than killing them by rendering them "uncool".

There has even been a backlash of videos attempting to resurrect the original s Harlem Shake dance, from which the song gets its name. More than half of the videos are not even from the US, he says. The two videos that sparked the craze were from Japan and Australia. Unrestricted by language barriers, it can continue growing into different countries.