Crab Rave
You might remember it as dancing crabs video, Crab Rave Monstercat
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2018·The platform era
A music video released as a joke that became the internet's standard celebration clip.
At a glanceThe facts
- Remembered as
- dancing crabs video
- Spread in
- 2018
- Format
- Meme
- Made by
- Noisestorm, the Irish producer Eoin O’Broin, who also made the video
- Taken from
- A single on the Canadian label Monstercat
- Used to say
- Captioned with the words “… is gone”
- Origin
- Origin not yet established
- Available
- Playable from the source
What this wasThe story
A meme classified under dance.
Why it matteredWhat changed
A dance track released as an April Fools’ joke, with a video of thousands of computer-generated crabs, became a meme when people captioned it with the news that somebody was gone.
TimelineIn order
- Posted
The track is released as an April Fools’ joke.1 What else happened on 1 April
- Remixed
A version with the words “Obama is gone” laid over the dancing crabs spreads widely.1
- Mainstream
The track is added to the game Beat Saber.1
LegacyWhat it left behind
- It reached number 14 on Billboard’s dance and electronic chart and was certified platinum in the United States.1
More from hereIn this collection
Why it is here: copied, redrawn and reused until the original stopped mattering · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later
The version shown here is an official copy on YouTube, published by a rights holder.
Where it came fromWhat we know
Original source uncertain. This is the earliest copy currently known.
View the official copy on YouTube
No original upload has been established for this record. The index is showing the earliest copy it currently knows about, and says so rather than guessing.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
- When
- The sources below date the original to 2018-04-01. ViralWorld records this as a cited claim rather than an established publication date, because it holds no copy to check it against.
SourcesWhat was read
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