Published 20:28 IST, May 5th 2022
Dancing Baby, world's first viral meme from 90s, is getting new look; All you need to know
One of the most popular memes of the 90s and early 2000s, the dancing baby is now getting an update and will be released as NFTs.
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One of core memories of every 90s and 2000s baby is forwarding chain emails with an orably disturbing dancing baby animation attached to it. image of a low-resolution toddler dancing in white pants plagued millennials and continued to bor m till early 2000s. However, it quickly became a phenomenon and emblematic of future of animation and meme culture.
After nearly 25 years, Dancing Baby is set to make its return. But this time, it will be getting a new update. Moreover, in truest nature of new-age social networking culture, it will be released as NFTS or non-fungible tokens.
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Dancing Baby to get a new update
One of world's first viral memes, Dancing Baby is getting a new update. If baby was alive, it would have been 26-years-old. This little piece of information was provided to grasp number of years that have passed since this viral phenomenon. This year, animators of Dancing Baby decided to give a major 3D makeover by giving it a new update.
original creators of popular GIF, Michael Girard, Robert Lurye and John Chwick joined hands with Vienna-based creative group HFA-Studio to release newly updated sets of Dancing Babies as NFTs. announcement of same was done via HFA-Studio's social media handle.
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As per new video shared by animators on ir social media, Dancing Baby appears in high-resolution, his facial features clearly visible and more realistic than original one.
Taking to ir Instagram a few months ago, HFA-Studio announced news of ir plans to give an update to ir legendary Dancing Baby loop video by writing, ''Dating back to 1996, dancing baby is one of first viral videos in history of internet and also widely recognized to be internet's first meme. Out of nowhere, Dancing Baby was everywhere. E-mail chains and websites me Dancing Baby spre like wildfire, but it was its transfer to mainstream media and broer entertainment industry that turned it into a cultural phenomenon.''
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Image: Instagram/@noeloquence
20:24 IST, May 5th 2022