Hadouken Is the Next Meme After Harlem Shake.

Exit Harlem Shake, Hadouken Is The New Meme
Exit Harlem Shake, street fighter Hadouken is the new meme. The rage from Japan will probably take over the internet by storm.

If you loved internet memes like: Planking, Tebowing, Gangnam and the Harlem Shake, this story is for you.

Hadoukening might be a new photo trend, while Harlem Shaking was done on video with the recognizable shaky sound track.

The Start of Hadouken – Some attribute the start of Hadouken to Uchiha Sasuke from Naruto

however for those of you who have followed the game "Street fighter" for long know Hadouken came from the Ryu and Ken brothers.

The Hadouken meme was ignited when Japanese schoolgirls started posting pictures of themselves throwing balls of lightning at each other. In street-fighter style.

What else can you expect from Japan, a country in which millions of screenagers are addicted to martial art and manga games, strips and movies.

There is a whole cult and many fans clubs around Uchiha Sasuke the Naruto hero from Anime (the TV series) and manga (the book).

In the series warrior Sasuke has several powers. His power Chidori, is throwing lightning balls.

And I guess the Hadouken meme is based on Sasuke’s lightning powers.

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My Opinion?

Manga and Naruto are huge in Japan. Now the Hadouken meme will be the go-to-market; the start of the internationalization of manga and Naruto phenomenon from Japan?

Just like PSY introduced K-Pop to the whole world with his 1 billion Gangnam Style hit.

But Harlem Shake, did you make the meme or did brands do that? 

But memes like this, they might be over in a flash of lightning.

Luckily you read ViralBlog so you are on top of the trends and memes.

What About You?
What do you expect from the Hadouken meme? Will brands make it big like the Harlem Shake?

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'The Simpsons' Do the 'Harlem Shake'

"Harlem Shake" meme videos keep piling up on YouTube, and today Homer Simpson and his animated companions on The Simpsons threw their rendition into the mix.

Fox will use the show's ever-changing opening segment on an upcoming episode to do the "Homer Shake," a colorful version of the viral phenomenon set to a Homer-ized cover of Baauer's 2012 single "Harlem Shake." Baauer's song is featured in the other versions of the meme.


SEE ALSO: 'Harlem Shake' Is No. 1 After Billboard Adds YouTube to Chart Formula
"Harlem Shake" catapulted from unranked to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on Feb. 20 after Billboard added YouTube views to the way it ranks the top 100 songs. Billboard also considers physical sales, radio airplay, Nielsen SoundScan's digital-download sales numbers and streaming data. "Harlem Shake" is still number one.
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Viral video: Usain Bolt joins in the Harlem Shake craze

Jimmy Fallon is doing it with his whole staff. Legions of university students have done it. A squadron of the Norwegian army has done it. Anderson Cooper did it too. And now Usain Bolt has joined the party.

What are we talking about? Why the Harlem Shake of course!

The Harlem Shake craze as we noted earlier, has taken over YouTube with the upload rate of Harlem Shake videos reaching 4,000 per day. As of 15 February about 40,000 Harlem Shake videos had been uploaded, totalling 175 million views.


How does the Harlem Shake work?

Usually, a video begins with one person (often helmeted or masked) dancing to Bauer’s Harlem Shake song alone for 15 seconds, surrounded by other people not paying attention or unaware of the dancing individual. When the bass drops, the video switches to the entire crowd doing a crazy convulsive dance for the next 15 seconds.

Usain Bolt is at the bottom right of the screen – breaking into some highly enthusiastic and really weird dance moves. But he sure looks like he’s having a great time!

The success of the videos was in part attributed to the anticipation of the breakout moment and short length, making them very accessible to watch.


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Harlem Shake(original Army Edition)

I just can't believe this....These soldiers catch in on the Harlem Shake craze too.
Awesome!!

First viral video of 2013: The Harlem Shake

Gangnam Style was the viral video of 2012 but the internet never sleeps. Six weeks into the new year, a new viral video sensation is taking over.

It’s called the Harlem Shake and as with all viral videos, viewers are usually left scratching their heads trying to figure out what it was that they’ve just seen.

The 30-second video is formulaic – a lone, masked dancer gyrates amidst a few disinterested people. Halfway through the video, the music ratchets up a notch and suddenly the screen is filled with crazy revellers.

The original video was published on February 2 and has already garnered 3.7-million views.

It was devised by a group of teenaged longboarders from Australia’s Sunshine Coast, who were looking for something to do during a rainy spell.

The Harlem Shake is actually a dance, dating back to the early 2000s. But it rarely features in the videos currently doing the rounds. It takes its name from the backing music, which is by Brooklyn-based dance music producer Baauer.

There are now scores of copycat versions featuring firefighters, an endearing father-son duo, the staff of entertainment website IGN, and rapper T Pain.




The fad picked up locally in recent days after a Cape Town based advertising agency the Jupiter Drawing Room made a version and dared its competitors to “out-shake” them.


Of course, the M&G Online had to have its own take.



Who says teambuilding costs money?

Now for the inevitable backlash. Oh wait, it’s already here.Who says teambuilding costs money?

Now for the inevitable backlash. Oh wait, it’s already here.




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