No one doubted the claim by Americans that they invented the Internet meme called the "Harlem Shake". The video in which a group of people performs a comedy sketch accompanied by a short excerpt from the song "Harlem Shake", was replicated by many people, including, National Basketball Association (NBA) teams, and became viral in early February 2013.
However, there is also no doubt that it was the Americans who subsequently ruined the meme when they used it as a political platform. With its life already in death throes, web videos showing legislators’ staffers do the Harlem Shake, in a bid to capitalize on a meme, has finally put a stake in the heart.
While the "Harlem Shake" fades into the background, somewhere in the Pacific, Japanese school kids are doing the next-level stuff – "HADOKEN-ing".
"HADOKEN-ing" is defined in some sites as a photo fad that involves two or more people staging a "Ki attack" knockout sequence and photographing themselves in mid-action, as seen in the popular Japanese fighting arcade game Street Fighter and manga series Dragon Ball.
Parody re-enactments of harnessing and blasting Qi in the form of energy balls have been circulating on the South Korean web under the generic name "Qi attack play" as early as 2009. However, the photo fad did not reach the English-speaking and western audiences until late last month, when Japanese Twitter user @mkpiiii9 posted an image of herself and her classmates staging a dramatic shot. Her remark "Makankosappo!!!!!!" refers to the special beam cannon of Piccolo from the Japanese popular manga/anime series Dragon Ball, though its action is completely different from the original.
The tweet of @mkpiiii9 instantly influenced several copycat photos from other Japanese Twitter users, many of whom appear to be high school girls judging from their school uniform attires. And it is expected that this month (April 2013), "HADOKEN-ing" will be picked up by anime fans in America and the Philippines and dominate the lives of cosplayers worldwide.
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However, there is also no doubt that it was the Americans who subsequently ruined the meme when they used it as a political platform. With its life already in death throes, web videos showing legislators’ staffers do the Harlem Shake, in a bid to capitalize on a meme, has finally put a stake in the heart.
While the "Harlem Shake" fades into the background, somewhere in the Pacific, Japanese school kids are doing the next-level stuff – "HADOKEN-ing".
"HADOKEN-ing" is defined in some sites as a photo fad that involves two or more people staging a "Ki attack" knockout sequence and photographing themselves in mid-action, as seen in the popular Japanese fighting arcade game Street Fighter and manga series Dragon Ball.
Parody re-enactments of harnessing and blasting Qi in the form of energy balls have been circulating on the South Korean web under the generic name "Qi attack play" as early as 2009. However, the photo fad did not reach the English-speaking and western audiences until late last month, when Japanese Twitter user @mkpiiii9 posted an image of herself and her classmates staging a dramatic shot. Her remark "Makankosappo!!!!!!" refers to the special beam cannon of Piccolo from the Japanese popular manga/anime series Dragon Ball, though its action is completely different from the original.
The tweet of @mkpiiii9 instantly influenced several copycat photos from other Japanese Twitter users, many of whom appear to be high school girls judging from their school uniform attires. And it is expected that this month (April 2013), "HADOKEN-ing" will be picked up by anime fans in America and the Philippines and dominate the lives of cosplayers worldwide.
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