The dance is set to the Harlem Shake dance track by US DJ Baauer.
Up to 4, 000 videos of "Harlem Shake" variations are uploaded on the Internet daily.
The Harlem Shake a brief half-minute of wildly flung arms and legs is particularly easy to copy.
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As I was listening, I noticed several points that could easily refer to the Harlem Shake phenomenon.
The Harlem Shake is the great craze on the Internet now, and shows no sign of abating.
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By contrast, the Harlem Shake is creating a sprawling ecosystem of do-it-yourself videos.
"Maybe for the college kids who got on the Harlem Shake bandwagon in the first week, it's over, " says Allocca.
The song "Harlem Shake, " recorded by Brooklyn disc jockey and producer Baauer, is currently No.2 on the Australian singles chart.
In fact, there are so many takes on the Harlem Shake, yours may just get lost amidst all the noise.
Fans got a kick out of the Mets' wacky "Harlem Shake" video when it ran on the big board between innings.
The Harlem Shake sees a group of people dancing erratically to music.
Up to 4, 000 people a day have uploaded their own 30-second video variations to the Harlem Shake dance track by US DJ Baauer.
There has even been a backlash of videos attempting to resurrect the original 1980s Harlem Shake dance, from which the song gets its name.
Musson shouts, "Do the Harlem Shake, " about 15 seconds in, which he says is taken from a rap by his group Plastic Little in 2001.
For example, within a week of the trend taking off, Pepsi had uploaded two Harlem Shake videos, including one with Mr. Gordon and racing crew.
Harlem Shake has become an internet sensation on video website YouTube.
Students at an Oxford college have called for the reinstatement of a librarian who they say was sacked after the filming of a Harlem Shake video.
An Early Day Motion calling for the reinstatement of a librarian sacked after the filming of a Harlem Shake video has been put down in Parliament.
Up to 15 miners in Australia have been fired after performing a version of the Harlem Shake underground and posting a video of it online.
He's also making money from thousands of the Harlem Shake videos that use his song, thanks to YouTube's system for sharing advertising revenue with copyright owners.
The new methodology catapulted Baauer's "Harlem Shake" song to No. 1 on the Hot 100, a chart that premiered in 1958 with Ricky Nelson on top.
Unlike the video response parodies for Gangnam Style, Call Me Maybe or Somebody That I Used To Know, making a Harlem Shake requires very little preparation.
The Harlem Shake meme, a virtual pig that is working its way through the viral python that is YouTube, is about the changing nature of time.
The Harlem Shake is the latest internet dance craze, and typically begins with one dancer who is then quickly joined by others, often in costumes or with props.
In the case of Harlem Shake, mainstream attention arrived early.
Its attempt at the Harlem Shake seemed stale and flat-footed.
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On that flight, 18 Colorado College students, on their way to an ultimate Frisbee tournament in San Diego, staged a Harlem shake as the plane soared over the Rocky Mountains.
And the meme, whether it be an image plastered with ironic type, an animated gif or, as in Harlem Shake, a short video, is the perfect cultural expression of Present Shock.
Baauer's Harlem Shake - the song behind the latest internet dance craze - fell from three to eight in the singles chart, while Macklemore and Ryan Lewis's Thrift Shop dropped from two to four.
Undoubtably Harlem Shake has sold a bunch of downloads since the meme took off, but most people have only heard the first 30 seconds, and the rest of the tune adds no significant development.
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