“Wasn’t this like when LeBron, D Wade, and Chris Bosh and the big 3, the Harlem Shake? Those moments are so iconic bro.”
— Giannis talking about the Miami Heat Harlem shake video while touring the Heat locker room
There are some kids here that don’t even remember just how big the Harlem Shake was. Like that had the world wrapped around its finger.
Harlem Shake and ALS Ice Bucket Challenge were peak Youtube.
A simpler, more civilized time…
Pretty sure they were tear gassing people in Central Park that same year…
If only that was the worst of what was happening domestically
If only we’d managed to actually occupy Wallstreet.
Analytically we definitely occupied wall st
Like, legitimately though. People just did shit because it was fun/funny. Not for a job, not for engagement, etc. I really miss that internet.
Take it further back to the aol instant messager/icq and nspster days. Also shoutouts to vine.
Do it for the vine
Funny thing is I remember all the redditors hating on those challenges because they thought it was cringe
Because it was
Reddit will hate on anything though, miserable place sometimes honestly
Idk about civilized man, the only thing I can think of when someone says Harlem Shake is the one video where the guy with a bicycle helmet and sun glasses doing the meme and then cuts to him explosively shitting all over his friend.
The only I can think of is this washing machine doing the Harlem Shake.
That guy makes kid’s videos now
Less scalper fuckery too
We called it fapping at the time
lol why does everything becomes simpler and better after 15 years lmfao
Also the mannequin (?). I remember the Heat did it with Michelle Obama
Peak youtube? Man, ya’ll kids don’t know shit. Urban Ninja? Star Wars Kid? Chocolate Rain? My New Haircut? FPS Doug? Ask a Ninja? Evolution of Dance? Numa Numa? Shoes? End of Ze World? Grape Lady? Anton Dotson? Daft Hands? Chinese Backstreet Boys? Youtube was a magical place back before money got involved. Just young people making videos for fun and wild random shit.
Edit: Like come on man, this shit is fucking hilarious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2rZxCrb7iU&list=PL0ti6xOf18N6BLQn-YMYhlitX6-GrmPRW&index=45
Edit 2: And this is just incredibly impressive in addition to being cool as shit. Just for fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2cYWfq–Nw&list=PL0ti6xOf18N6BLQn-YMYhlitX6-GrmPRW&index=23
Edit 3: Still quoting it to this day…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9qXbgrx9rg
I gotta stop watching these all again lol
Some of that wasn’t even YouTube at first, just migrated over. The flash shit was on albinoblacksheep or other sites originally
Okay grandpa, it’s time to go back to the nursing home.
Edit: Like come on man, this shit is fucking hilarious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2rZxCrb7iU&list=PL0ti6xOf18N6BLQn-YMYhlitX6-GrmPRW&index=45
let’s be honest if you saw a tiktok of some kids doing this same type of lip syncing you’d think it’d be cringe lol. nostalgia wins all
Grape lady for sure
Thank you, hearing someone call the fucking harlem shake peak youtube makes me feel old, youtube was already trending strongly downward when that bullshit was trendy.
FPS Doug man, what a legendary video.
Ice bucket is back in the NFL for CJ2K.
If you can read one full page of a Harry Potter book…
“Fuck the bucket a ice”
Cinnamon challenge
Gangnam style
Don’t forget the black Beatles challenge
Cinnamon challenge as well
Don’t forget weird ass planking pics.
Kobes ice bucket was him just already in a bath tub full of ice
#Drivebydunkchallenge
Filthy Frank, internet pioneer.
Haven’t heard that name in forever holy shit lmfao
He’s still around… as a massive musician named Joji. Had a number 1 song on Spotify’s global chart for like 10 days in 2022.
Without seeing him you wouldn’t even know its the same person lmao
My wife is a huge Joji fan and didn’t know about Filthy Frank at all. We have…two very different images of the man
you should throw on some pink guy for her
Ey B0sS
Gibe da pusi b0ss
I still listen to that second album, unironically has some decent shit lol
Both pink albums are, musically, extremely impressive. Lyrics are pink guy lyrics obviously but you could tell really early on he was talented.
I remember the first time I listened after downloading the first album and thinking it actually has some heat on it, as well as the goofy shit like Dick Pays Rent lmao
Lmao I used to love watching reactions from Joji fans discovering FilthyFrank. Respect to him for being able to make a music career after having internet fame as a “degenerate.” Dude was hilarious
No shit? That’s wild af lmao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgsWGfUlwJI
his type of music is like ultra polar opposite of filthy frank
Thats one deep song of him. He does have a lot of great older songs that vary in genre, happier, trappier, etc. Altough his last 2 albums are kinda… ass.
50% of girls on tinder had him as their anthem in 2022 (the other have fleetwood mac)
I’m a pink guy connoisseur
For those that don’t know, here’s the OG Harlem Shake video, courtesy of Papa Franku and friends
The funny thing is it had nothing to do with the actual Harlem Shake. NYers must have been so confused
I graduated HS on the west coast in ‘08. Our cheer team did this routine where the last one to go was this guy who did a MEAN Harlem shake, would send the crowd going crazy every time. When the trend started a few years later I was confused too
Yes, I absolutely was. I tried to tell some of the people at my college what the real Harlem Shake was & I was probably just seen as a party pooper so I stopped.
Or planking. I remember Javale McGee was the king
How about Tebowing. Or Kaepernicking (a precursor to dabbing)
I didn’t do any of them. I was too busy Cheesing
And there are adults who don’t even remember the original Harlem shake from the 90s (and probably the 80s).
I remember the real Harlem shake
I’m so old I remember the OG Harlem shake
I still fucking love the Harlem shake. I wish it never went away. I wish it was an annual tradition. One week every year people at your job, gym, or anywhere you congregate just get together and choreograph an absolutely inane and silly dance with costumes that you record.
Go on YouTube and look it up and sort by upload date. There’s a surprising amount of people that still do them lol
I sure this ain’t too special but I remember when my school pulled everyone out of class to make one
That and planking lol. Think those were the same year.
remember
Also likely some that weren’t born yet.
There are some kids here that don’t even remember just how big the Harlem Shake was
Just show them kids Blippi doing the Harlem Shake …
Oh shit, Steezy Grossman did the Harlem shake?
It was indeed very gross
There are kids starting high school who weren’t alive when it happened
Lucky them
The harlem shake trend lasted like two weeks lol, I literally haven’t heard about it since that month it was everywhere
None of you were there to see what happened! None of you knows the truth.
So, me and my friends would go out to a pizza shop near our school for lunch in High School
One time, when we return, we just see a huge amount of students filming a school wide Harlem Shake
It was…..surreal….to say the least
Freeze challenge, even Hillary Clinton got in on this one)
giannis really just vibing in the heat locker room huh
I did a live one for my high school talent show entrance. I can’t imagine how confused the parents were.
Because of a pink guy
Some don’t know this the the 2nd version of the Harlem shake.
Take me back to those times please
The Harlem Shake video for reference:
https://youtu.be/Qp1eT_Y_IhE?is=8avrJV4cpYOphWve
This is also when they were in the middle of their 27-game win streak
Man i forgot how goofy those videos were. What a different time
I mean, it’s the same times but those trends are just on TikTok now and you’re older
And now everyone’s algorithm is much more specific/niche so there are fewer monoculture trends like the harlem shake.
You’re right 😭
Nah it was a bit more novel at the time since it wasnt as common.
It definitely is a bit less “special” today when a trend like this happens because we are much less of a monoculture.
Man the clip of bosh pouring champagne on himself still gets me to this day lmao
(https://youtu.be/UfsKe0tbAXo)
I always loved how much LeBron was enjoying it
The smash cut from LeBron cheesing and dancing goofy to him right in front of the camera super serious and moving his shoulders never fails to get a laugh out of me
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LeBron is just a goofy mf at heart
U could say he is just a kid from Akron
This was when LeBron leaned into being a villain. After the criticism he took for the 2011 championship loss and then coming back and winning his first championship in 2012. He wore that King costume as a statement.
Followed up 5 years later by Fergie and the Warriors
How did I miss this?
Damn bro. Lebron was only 28 years old.
Everyone else in the video is retired, no?
Yep. Norris Cole was the youngest on that team and he’s 37 now. 😭
The Birdman intro is low key the best part
This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen as a first time watcher
Just curious what year you started watching basketball? I remember all of us watching this in highschool when it came out lol
I’d say 2016? Started watching when LeBron went back to Cleveland
100% that was lebron’s idea
Iconic and also good. Such a good clip
Bro with everything going on in this vid I just can’t take my eyes off of Chalmers lmaaaaao
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You don’t have to be so Cavalier about it
He’s gonna need a Pacer after that decision happens
He’s gonna give the Cavs the spur of the boot
Now that’s a load of Bull
Knicks these other teams.
I feel like lots of people are gonna feel like they got stung by a Hornet when LeBron announces his next team
He’s a Golden oldie for sure.
He might even catch a lot of Heat depending on where he signs!
Well no matter where he goes, it’s going to be Magic!
Golden State Warriors
Miss again.
Inside of him are two Wolves, and they’re both telling him to go to Minnesota
Pick me up a Sixer if that happens
Keyboard warrior over here
I can feel it all the way down in my plums
Gonna take em down to the farmers market. Special two plums for one.
Let the boy watch
I’m feeling lebron to the nuggets and im in heat
Is this the Same locker room Chris Bosh took his champagne bath with his guzzler wide open?
Not as iconic as the Kentucky locker room where Anthony Davis was being spanked while butt naked and screaming “I love it!”
Anthony “Dwight Howard” Davis
I’m just a lil freaky
That’s the real iconic moment
so strange yet so hilarious lol
Bosh was so goofy. He kinda pioneered some of that youtube stuff with his All Star campaigning when he was on Toronto.
Man if LeBron comes back and announces his return by Harlem shaking, I think the internet would break.
Harlem Shake video with Lebron in that bear costume and pops out of it lol
I got them goose bumps now 😂
GOOSIES
Wait wasn’t Dwade in the bear costume?
Yes LeBron is in the king outfit
Giannis was 18 when it happened btw
Brons going to the heat lol
I mean… I kept my flair since 2011 for a reason!
Yea I’ve been feeling it too recently. Riley press conference just seemed to have that aura.
Outside of Cleveland Miami makes a ton of sense
Holy throwback
Harlem Shake is the GOAT locker room sports video ever
Harlem Shake…..
fades into ash
I just remember Hasaan Whiteside running in circles making airplane noises
“Those moments are so iconic bro”
Niiiiiieeeeeeeuuuuhh🏎
The Harlem Shake video really was a simpler time on the internet.
It was just goofy and funny.
Out of all big 3s in NBA history, you could argue who was the best skill wise or won the most or had the most potential.
But there will NEVER be a big 3 that had this type of chemistry.
The Harlem shake, the hangouts outside of basketball, the constant interview bombing. Absolute 10⁄10 fun to watch them interact with each other on and off court.
IMO it’s Wade who was the foundation of this chemistry because it was his team, his city but he was gracious and deferred to Lebron and he’s a strong locker room presence.
Not even mentioning Bosh who never complained about being the third wheel coming from being the 1# option, it was beautiful chemistry indeed.
Preach
Bro acting like a fan with an “All-Access” pass. 
LeBron is too chicken to announce he’s going back to Miami via Harlem Shake
For the love of god please dont let LeBron join the Heat. Not again.
That’s also where Hasan Whiteside showcased his speed
The Haslem Shake
Immediately what I thought of when I saw him in there
To be fair, the Harlem Shake video was also the first thing I thought of when I saw that locker room.
Giannis is living his dream. Cool!
That shit wasn’t iconic 🤣
The internet could never make me hate this man
He started playing basketball in 2008?? That’s wild because he was drafted in 2013!!
Giannis thinks the Big 3 are him and his two brothers.
Cringe
Giannis is fanboying af lol so wholesome
Why are there so many clips of him just walking around orating all over the Heat locker room like a Greek
They don’t have a 3rd tho
Honestly Giannis deserved to go find a better team. He transformed the Bucks franchise and got them a chip. He deserves to do what he wants. Coming from a Bucks fan
You know from some angles it looks like The Incredibles dressing room. Honey, where’s my super suit?!?!?!?!
This guy is insufferable, he’s full of himself and they only beat the Suns. He thinks he’s charming, he’s just a jock.
The big 6
Bron and Giannis would be fun to watch together
This is gonna be SO good…
I remember back when the Harlem shake was just a black fella holding me upside down off a fire escape trying to collect his money
Can you find out what the quickest way to Santa Monica freeway please?
That’s fking crazy- Giannis was drafted in 2013 by the time lebron is abt to go back to Cleveland lmao
My GOAT FilthyFrank got a chokehold of the world doing that shit just cause it looked funny lmao
This shit is so corny.
Dammit I’m watching Harlem Shake supercuts when I get home now.
Crazy to think Pink Guy/Joji started the trend of Harlem Shake
When I saw Giannis first time in the Heat locker room, I also thought that you can feel the aura in that room from past success and the history this franchise has.
This is guna be fun
Giannis about to bring back the Harlem Shake
Can’t wait for the reports of this fake mf getting into it with Pat Riley
Learning about joji and blippi harlem shake moments through this thread.
Who knew one viral moment had so much lore
It’s always nice to see players pay their respects to moments of the past. That Harlem Shake video they did was one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen whether you hate them or not, that was pretty ‘iconic’.
It’s so odd to see him not in bucks gear
It’s like he’s “Fake being Deep”
Wonder if LeBron doesn’t go, if they end up making a trade for Devin booker if he asks out of phx?