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I love to hear about internet phenomenons, viral videos and memes but what I love more is to know their origins. The Numa Numa guy didn’t just up and decide to become a fan of the Italian pop scene, pick a song that sounded catchy and then make a video of himself dancing to it, he found a music video made with cute Japanese characters dancing to a song that someone in japan acquired from another source, etc… There’s a whole segment in this inspiring video about internet collaboration detailing the process.

So when I saw this video on Youtube, I was quite intrigued…

The song is Promise by Hirose Kohmi.
When I see a video this strange and this Japanese I tend to look around Nico Nico Douga for answers.

I did a quick search for “ゲッダン” (Translates to “Get Down”, read phonetically as Ged-dan) and found a short animated clip with a character dancing in the same way with the same moves, dated 10/16/08. On their website they usually have comments from the chat section of the page flowing through the video and the video is set to loop. You have to have a Nico Nico account to watch videos on their website so I’ll post the copy from Youtube:

When I sorted my search results (after figuring out the Japanese) the very first video posted with “ゲッダン” in the description was the following video dated at 07/07/24:

So the origin is found! woo! Also, if anyone has more information on it or if they think I’m wrong and they have proof, post a comment with the details.

For those interested, here is Hirose Kohmi singing Promise:

She’s looks kind of akward singing this song. Really bugs me.

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