Left Shark
You might remember it as left shark halftime, Katy Perry Super Bowl shark
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2015·The platform era
A backing dancer in a shark costume at the 2015 Super Bowl half-time show, visibly out of step with the shark beside him.
At a glanceThe facts
- Remembered as
- left shark halftime
- Spread in
- 2015
- Began as
- A television broadcast
- Where it started
- broadcast
- Format
- Event
- Who or what it shows
- Bryan Gaw, the dancer on the left of the stage; Scott Myrick was the shark on the right
- The scene
- Katy Perry’s half-time show at Super Bowl XLIX, in Glendale, Arizona, on 1 February 2015
- Origin
- Not an upload originally
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
What this wasThe story
A moment_event classified under marine-life.
Why it matteredWhat changed
The most-discussed thing in the half-time show was a dancer who appeared to have forgotten the routine. The choreographer later said it was on purpose.
What people misrememberSet straight
Commonly remembered asA dancer who forgot the steps.
ActuallyThe choreographer, RJ Durell, said the performance was intentional: the dancers were told to play a Tweedledee and Tweedledum pair.1
LegacyWhat it left behind
- Perry’s lawyers tried to register Left Shark as a trademark, along with Right Shark, Drunk Shark and Basking Shark. The first application was rejected.1
- They also sued an artist in Orlando who was selling 3D-printed figurines of the shark.1
Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later
This began as a television broadcast, not as a video upload. Originally published on broadcast.
Where it came fromWhat we know
There is no original upload to identify: this did not begin as one. There is no copy of it here either — what it was, when it appeared and what people called it is what this page can tell you.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first publication of this Moment, because the first publication was not an upload. This began as a television broadcast, not as a video upload. Originally published on broadcast.
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