Your Thirty Seconds of Fame

Thirty seconds is barely enough time to search for and find a video, but it’s all the time you need to be entertained by the Harlem Shake.  Skyrocketing in popularity and quantity on YouTube, the videos last only for about thirty seconds.  From the armed forces to a Greenpeace office in Stockholm to the UGA Men’s Swim and Dive teams, groups are getting together to create their own rendition. 

In the last fifteen days, nearly 15,000 of these videos have been produced and that number continues to grow.  Several videos have taken off in popularity and been featured on news and late night television programs.  Each video builds anticipation until half way through when the beat drops and the whole room is going wild.  Having been referred to as 2013’s “Gangnum Style,” these videos are likely to become even more popular before the trend dies down. 

The imaginative plots of these videos continue to become more and more creative as the trend picks up speed.  Just like “Call Me Maybe” videos once were in the spotlight, we’re now in the era of the Harlem Shake.  Fifteen days have brought us this far.  Anticipations are high for what crazy twists will we be entertained by in the next fifteen.