What Does This Mean?
A video-edit meme that sets the Bag Raiders song "Shooting Stars" to footage of people falling or being flung, edited so they appear to tumble through a retro, synthwave-style outer space.
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triple j · original source ↗
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""He slipped on the ice and the Shooting Stars edit practically made itself.""
LORE & ORIGIN
The Australian duo Bag Raiders released the song in 2008 as a B-side and as a single in 2009. The first known meme use was an animation uploaded on December 29, 2015, a Harambe-tribute video helped in July 2016, and popularity spiked in late January 2017. A TikTok resurgence began on March 30, 2024.
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