Animation meme

Not to be confused with Spoofs.

An animation meme, formerly known as a fad, trend, or dance, is a type of animation, often featuring a creator's characters or characters from another source of media performing a dance, comedy sketch, or other action, that is replicated by multiple users across a platform.

History

Animation memes have gone by a number of names over the years, included but not limited to:

• Fads
  • Most commonly seen in the object show community
• Trends
• Dance
  • Often seen as "Character does the Numa Numa Dance", or "Character hits the griddy for 15 minutes while unfitting music plays"
• Things
  • Often seen as "Character does the Awesome Thing"

Popular animation memes

An example of the Caramelldansen meme.

• Caramelldansen
• Trauma
• Dinosaurs Go RAWR
• Bounce With Me
• Hoopla!
• 3s
• Waiting by the Phone
• Bloom
• Hot Milk
• Close-up
• Choki Choki
• Posin'
• Momotaro
• The Floor is Lava
• Pork Soda
• Chime
• Around The World
• Pusher
• Bye Lena Problems
• Echo
• Floppy ears

Sad af animation memes

• The shrek walk

Tangential animation memes

• Dance Parties - often created by an individual or a small group of animators, a dance party is a full-length animation featuring characters belonging to multiple parties, set to a single song or a mashup of a series of songs. These animations sometimes have settings, within a bar, club, rave, or other type of party, and feature the characters interacting while dancing and singing or perhaps a nerpoing.
• Collabs - These are animation memes that consist of a collaborative effort, where artists will springboard off a portion of work done by a previous collaborator, until a finished piece is produced.
• Chains/Base edits - An animation meme in which a basic format or set of lineart/frames is provided to any interested party to create their own version of a work, or contribute to an existing work. These can be started by anyone and consist of most anything.