Harlem Shake Meme

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    I realize I'm a little late to the show but my son wanted to make a video. So without further ado.

  • i_monk0

    Performances of the Harlem Shake with unforeseen consequences

    In February 2013, a New York boys' ice hockey team was forced to forfeit a first-round playoff game as a result of a Harlem Shake video uploaded to YouTube. The team's video, shot in a locker room, depicts scantily clad team members, notably, one player wearing nothing but a sock.[89][90]

    Two Israeli soldiers received prison sentences, and one was also relieved of his command, after they posted a video of soldiers performing the Harlem Shake around a cannon, even though they were reported to have notified their commanders of the project, taken care to ensure that no sensitive military equipment was shown, and sought approval for the finished video. The video was reported to have received a generally positive reaction from mainstream Israeli media and online.[91][92]

    In Russia, police arrested five people after they uploaded a video of themselves doing the Harlem Shake on a war memorial, an army tank from World War II.[93][94][95]

    A group of up to 15 miners in Western Australia were fired for breaching safety rules after uploading a video where they performed the Harlem Shake underground.[96][97]

    Following what was described as a Harlem Shake "incident" on a plane flying from Colorado to San Diego, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration launched an investigation. The participants claimed that they had sought permission from a flight attendant before the performance began, and that the seat-belt sign was off at the time.[98][99]

    In a controversial move, a student at St Hilda's College, Oxford lost her temporary job as a part-time library invigilator and student organisers were fined after a Harlem Shake video was filmed in the college library.[100] By way of contrast, Professor Roger Ainsworth, Master of St Catherine's College, Oxford, praised his students for their version of the meme, which he described as "the best example of the genre, at least in the UK".[101][102][103]

    A religious education teacher at Caldicot Comprehensive School in Wales was suspended after a Harlem Shake video was posted online which allegedly showed him dancing with a lifesize cardboard figure of Pope Benedict XVI. According to Monmouthshire council the teacher may have behaved in an "unacceptable way".[104][105][106]

    The Washington Post reported that according to the National Coalition against Censorship, about 100 students across the US have been suspended for participating in various versions of the Harlem Shake Meme. NCAC Director Joan Bertin referred to the suspensions as "a rather disproportionate response by educators" to what she described as "teenage hijinks".[107][108]

  • ideaist0

    XLR8R Podcast 289: Baauer

    YOOOOOO!!!! STOP WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU ARE DOING. Over the years, the XLR8R podcast series has featured some pretty AMAZING DJs, but today's installment is taking shit to the NEXT LEVEL. NYC badboy and trap pioneer Baauer has stepped up to the fucking plate with an EXCLUSIVE mix and we're STOKED to present it. Can you say WORLD PREMIERE, bitches?
    Normally, we require all the DJs doing the podcast to give us a complete tracklist, but we made an exception here, for two reasons:

    #1 It's FUCKING BAAUER. Dude is like the king of the world right now. We'd make out with our moms if he told us to.

    #2 On a serious tip, Baauer told us that this mix is full of top-secret exclusives and some UNDERGROUND shit that he's got to keep on the DL. FUCK the hype --- this guy goes way deeper than "Harlem Shake," and the HOTTT JAMZZZZ on this mix prove it. (Of course, if any of our readers recognize the TOONZ and want to blow up Baauer's spot in the comments section, we can't stop them. LOLOLOLOL!!!)

    ANYWAYZ, playlist or no, this mix FUCKING RULES and Baauer is the man! Shout out to dude and his whole crew for making this happen. We'll be rocking this shit ALL DAY --- getting stuck in the fucking trap is ALL GOOD when Baauer is runnin' things. TRAP 4EVA!!!!!!

    https://soundcloud.com/xlr8r/baa…

  • TheBlueOne0

    A manufactured meme for profit. As you were, serf lemmings.

    http://www.theatlantic.com/techn…

    • I had so much invested in it being genuine.i_monk
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  • desmo0

    People are still doing this?!

    • People are still complaining about this?!albums
    • robots now.74LEO
  • stoplying0

    Kill it with Fire, you say?

  • kona0

    I was showing a few of these videos (the pc ones anyways) to our 3 year old son and he talked me into doing a video of him. I let him choose his outfit for the first part. Pretty funny. Then for the second part I asked him what he wanted to do. Seeing videos of people with their shirts off he decided he would go in his underwear. Instant success. Everyone I showed it to (facebook) thought it was pretty funny. I still get a kick out of it a few months later. Anyways... I'm bored.

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