An incredible thing happened on July 17 , 2007 . A television of several hundred inmates wear orange jumpsuits and do an immaculately choreograph dance to Thriller appeared on a modest website called YouTube . Two years afterwards , Michael Jackson was all in , and YouTube had transfer story .
You might fence that Michael Jackson ’s Thriller terpsichore did for YouTube what his original Thriller music video did for MTV .
The video of inmate reenacting the original dance in a Phillippine prison was not only one of the early viral success of YouTube . It was also one of the first times that a viral video became a meme with loads of copycats uploading video of similar performances from all over the existence . Early adopters , of course , were college kids . Within a few months , the Thriller dance meme coalesce with the flash family subject :
Suddenly , MJ ’s jam from the early 80s was cheering people up all over the world , all over again . Michael Jackson died on the button six days ago today , but what ’s remarkable is that the meme lives on . Two years after his demise came this Thriller dance tribute in LEGO :
The Thriller dance has also become a mainstayat wedding party . One could even argue that the Filipino prisoner Thriller saltation was inspired bya farinaceous wedding cartridge clip from 2006 , but it ’s hard to say if prisoners in the Phillippines had admission to high stop number internet back in those dark ages before widespread wireless local area connection . Now , it ’s self - evident that the memeis still being reenact and reinvisioned . As with any meme , you know it ’s collide with mainstream when it ’s being used as marketing materials . Case - in - point : the Thriller dancein a viral picture from the Denver International Airport .
What ’s unavoidably remarkable about this footling net history factoid is the dewy-eyed fact that it ’s gross MJ . It ’s a perfect encapsulation about how his music brought people together from all box of the orb , from all acculturation , and from every ethnicity . It ’s fun to trip the light fantastic to !
I ’d been living in New York City for less than a month when Michael Jackson cash in one’s chips . That Nox , my friends and I wanted to pay our respects the best path that we could . We wanted to boogie . And apparently the entire city had the same plan . Wherever you cash in one’s chips — in bars , in clubs , on the streets , in taxicabs — Michael Jackson ’s vocal were play , and masses were dance . Everyone was so happy .
So today , on the day of remembrance of his decease , let ’s recall how Michael Jackson ’s music revolutionize the best in us . It can make anyone from prisoner to minifigs dance . It can breathe in an net meme . It ’s inspired a genesis of meme . And for intellect like that , Michael Jackson will rest , in his own way , immortal .
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