Comments on: YouTube's Harlem Shake easter egg

By: Ema Ilic

Ema Ilic — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:13:00 +0000

There’s an interesting website for Harlem Shake videos, vi top lists, news, etc.. You can find it here: http://harlemshaketoplist.com/

By: chgoliz

chgoliz — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:46:00 +0000

That video was included in the Chicago Reader's article last week. As you say: appropriation. Who's Really Doing the Harlem Shake

By: oasisob1

oasisob1 — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:43:00 +0000

No seriously, when does Fipi Lele get a BB Staff T-shirt?

By: blueelm

blueelm — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:12:00 +0000

I can see how people would find it obnoxious, since it really has nothing to do with Harlem and nothing to do with the actual dance so has no reason to be called the “Harlem Shake” at all. But I don’t know if it can count as appropriation when people aren’t even remotely close to doing the dance. It’s more like people who don’t even know the dance exists doing whatever improvised moves they want to the song because they saw some other people dancing to it on YouTube.

By: DavidCulberson

DavidCulberson — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:15:00 +0000

I hope you waited for the break; it goes a bit beyond the YouTube video shaking.

By: McGreens

McGreens — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:09:00 +0000

Does it count as an Easter Egg if you don’t have to look for it?

Pretty cool though, although I prefer the little animated PSY.

By: DrDave

DrDave — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 09:00:00 +0000

For Opera, you need to pick up your laptop and rapidly move it side to side.

By: Zak McKracken

Zak McKracken — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:12:00 +0000

Nope, none of that …
… quick check later: Opera does’t do it, but Chrome does.Weird.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 07:51:00 +0000

And see the YT logo shaking.

By: DrDave

DrDave — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 07:34:00 +0000

Might not be working in your browser. Do you hear music when the page opens?

By: Zak McKracken

Zak McKracken — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 07:05:00 +0000

Easter Egg? Wait for what? That’s just a link to a “Harlem Shake” Youtube search which everyone of us even remotely aware of the phenomenon has already done once or twice, and the top results are some of the less remarkable examples … so I don’t really get this post. I’m not even sure if there was anything to “get” in this post, sorry.

… now I’m left with that stupid feeling of not having understood the obvious joke — did I miss something?

EDIT:
I did miss something. Doesn’t work in Opera. Did work in Chrome, and is actually not that bad.

By: Red Monk

Red Monk — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 06:22:00 +0000

I think this one has reached saturation point.

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 03:17:00 +0000

Like with any popular dance when people can do it well (and combine it with other styles) it doesn’t look like some spastic person going out of their mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt_4yv3_INw

By: FearOnlyPolice

FearOnlyPolice — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 02:42:00 +0000

Ever since I saw this I’ve felt the harlem shake videos are some kind of nasty appropriation. I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGH2HEgWppc