The dance is set to the Harlem Shake dance track by US DJ Baauer.
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.
In fact, there are so many takes on the Harlem Shake, yours may just get lost amidst all the noise.
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.
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.
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 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.
Its attempt at the Harlem Shake seemed stale and flat-footed.
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To avoid taking credit for a trend he didn't start, or tying himself too closely to a fad, he has done only one formal interview about the Harlem Shake phenomenon (and he won't be doing any more, a representative says).
For those experiencing some Web whiplash, it might be tempting to compare the Harlem Shake to the last dance craze to go viral around the world: "Gangnam Style, " which stemmed from an absurd and addictive music video starring the South Korean singer Psy.
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There has even been a backlash of videos attempting to resurrect the original 1980s Harlem Shake dance, from which the song gets its name.
The song "Harlem Shake, " recorded by Brooklyn disc jockey and producer Baauer, is currently No.2 on the Australian singles chart.
In the case of Harlem Shake, mainstream attention arrived early.
Fans got a kick out of the Mets' wacky "Harlem Shake" video when it ran on the big board between innings.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The 23-year-old DJ released "Harlem Shake" last May, but it wasn't until Feb. 2 that the first video emerged featuring a silly dance to the song. (A YouTube denizen known as Filthy Frank gets that credit.) A version by a crew of Australian skateboarders established the jump-cut blueprint, and an entry by employees of Maker Studios, a digital media company, inspired other office imitators.
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.
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