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An animated GIF of the music video, depicting a large number of dancing crabs "Crab Rave" was initially released as a small April Fool's Day joke, [10] although it soon gained popularity after becoming an Internet meme due to the music video's uplifting theme and dancing crabs.
Woodell's animated GIF then proliferated to numerous other websites, and later proceeded to show up in a broad array of mainstream media, including television dramas (such as Ally McBeal), commercial advertisements, and music videos between 1997 and 1998.
Vaporwave is a microgenre of electronic music and a subgenre of hauntology, [citation needed] a visual art style, and an Internet meme that emerged in the early 2010s, [30] [31] and became well-known in 2015. [32]
The Hampster Dance site originally consisted of a single page with just four unique animated GIFs of cartoon hamsters. These images were repeated in rows by the dozens and were paired with an infectious, continuously looping background tune. At the time the page was created, embedding background music in HTML pages was a fairly novel browser ...
GIF was one of the first two image formats commonly used on Web sites, the other being the black-and-white XBM. [5] In September 1995 Netscape Navigator 2.0 added the ability for animated GIFs to loop. While GIF was developed by CompuServe, it used the Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) lossless data compression algorithm patented by Unisys in 1985.
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Blingee was founded as part of a website network Bauer Teen Network, and marketed towards young people who wished to add personalized imagery to their Myspace pages. The site, however, was different from other web-based GIF editors, allowing users to make their own profiles and other social network-like functionality.
The video shows an anthropomorphic donkey (called Holly Dolly) dancing to the animation which is displayed (flipped horizontally) in the background. [8] The animation is marketed as the "Dolly Song", and the music is played faster than the original Loituma version. It was also given an extra 30-second drum preface.