How the Coffin Dance Meme Was Born

Published on May 4, 2020

This Internet Meme 2020 started with a TikTok post, for an Epic Fail.

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It catches on and compilation of epic fails will insert the coffin dance.

2015: Ghana Dancing Pallbearers

But video of their dance was as early as 2015 (with their original African music).

Then 2017 BBC Africa covered their story:

Astronomia: A catchy EDM Music

Together with the EDM by Tony Igy, the video caught fire.

It was with good reason why Astronomia was chosen:

That’s it.

That’s how I spend my Circuit Breaker afternoon researching on useless meme 😂