Ma-ia hi
Ma-ia ho
Ma-ia ha
Ma-ia ha ha
alo
Salut
sunt eu
un… haiduc???
SI TE ROG…. IUBIREA MEA PRIMESTE FERICIEEEEEAAAA
ALO?
Alo?
sunt eu
PICASSO
ti-am dat beep
Nu mă, nu mă ieei
NU MĂ, NU MĂ IEI
nu mă, nu mă, nu mă iei
I have no idea what happened here
Mya mintesc day oki tay-yay
They’re the lyrics to the song Dragostea Din Tei by Moldovan pop group O-zone. It was a very popular song in the early 2000s
dont you sick fucks make me relive this
We must not despair as long as we are here, we can teach the children about the ancient texts
Okay hold on but we can’t talk about Dragostea Din Tei without talking about Gary Brolsma. Yes, there’s a link above but that doesn’t really explain just how formative a video this was in the relatively early days of the internet.
“The Numa Numa Dance” was posted in December 2004 to Newgrounds.com and was one of the first viral videos.
Estimates on how many times this video has been viewed run somewhere around ¾ of a billion views.
News articles at the time talked about how this video by itself “justified the existence of webcams.” (Though I think the reason for the first webcam was reason enough.)
Let’s go back to the view count, though. If one person wanted to watch the Numa Numa Dance video approximately as many times as it has been watched in the past 19 years, and finish up the watching this year, they would have had to start roughly during the Battle of Piraeus in 403 BCE.
Yeah.
Humanity has, collectively, spent about 2426 years watching Gary Brolsma joyfully dance to Dragostea Din Tei.
The song charted on its own, don’t get me wrong. It’s still something like the 4th best-selling single of all time in France and the most successful Romanian-language pop song of all time. But its memetic longevity? There you can’t skip over “the Numa Numa Dance.” That is the Deep Memetic Magic of long ago.
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