History of containment meme success: Funeral dancers
- Stylish cheerful young people, with a coffin on their shoulder, dance. They have appeared interspersed with all kinds of misfortunes since the beginning of the pandemic, followed by electronic music. This is the story behind the moment that has spread in recent weeks around the world as gunpowder.
It has become a trend of recent times. Hundreds (or thousands?) the videos circulate in whatsapp and social networks. To announce that someone will end up very badly, they have become a symbol of black humor around the world: the dancing funeral services. The music that you hear from behind is DJ Astronomy Tony Igy, which was done two years ago, until someone met with the dancers, which was just the song of a singular video clip in which some alien appeared.
"I thought I'd add choreography to the rite. We always ask the customer who wants to hire our services: What do you want to include a solemn event or a choreography? We do what the client wants.” Benjamin Aidoo is one of the founders of Pallbearers, one of the world's leading companies.
The BBC broadcast in 2017 on these entertainers from Ghana and from there they have taken the images circulating across the island's various memes. You can see it in this link. In the video below you can see images of Palbearers mixed with the music that made it so known.
"These people also dance when they take the person you love to the last place of rest, and that's why I decided to give my mother the last dance," says Elizabeth Annan, in some images recorded the same day of her funeral.
The report says that in Ghana more and more family members decide to perform these types of funerals.
As explained by the founder of Aidoo, the company offering funeral services has already created more than 100 jobs in Spain. They're finished being materials for the memorial. Here are some examples in this video.
Beyond the videos, many internet users are also making jokes about the photos.
Other ways to understand death
Each culture interprets and internalizes death in its own way and rites. In many parts of the world, it is common to dance with the coffin in the last farewell.
In the comments of the following videos the cultural shock is well documented. - How can you dance with so many problems? ", asked Micheal Hnat. "You are crazy, we are Africans and we are proud of it, here, as you see, we celebrate the life of the dead person, here the problem is you," Dalphine Atembekwa responded to the press.
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