Know Your Meme: Geddan

For those of you not familliar with Know Your Meme, they are a brilliant lot of people from Rocketboom who set out to explain the most popular internet memes to the masses. This particular video is for the Geddan (or Get Down) movement.

Get Down is a Japanese meme that originated from a glitch in the N64 game Goldeneye, where the characters (and vehicles) would suddenly “spaz out” if the game cartridge was only partially inserted in the console.

Watch the video for the rest of the story There is a meme database on their homepage, just incase you’re not on the cusp of nerddome, the vids will fill in your gaps and make you complete!