A recent meme has creators expressing calling upon the forces beyond to do their bidding using this animation of cloaked figures summoning a demon from a 2022 video called "The Shoebody Bop"
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00:00Do bop shoobuddy do, bop shoobuddy do, bop shoobuddy do, bop shoobuddy do.
00:04Some memes are so odd and disturbing they may make you feel like you just got bopped on the head.
00:08Such is the case for this strange, surreal, animated meme referred to as shoobuddy bop
00:12that's part cult ritual and part absurdist comedy.
00:15But from what depths was this meme summoned?
00:17The lore here begins on August 26, 2018, when YouTuber TheMinuteHour posted an Adult Swim-esque
00:23video animated and voiced by Drew Langlois depicting a man hearing someone say,
00:27quote, something terribly offensive and then repeatedly and violently headbutting,
00:31or bopping, the person who said it.
00:33I give him a head bop. Oh, and he doesn't appreciate that. But I bop, I bop him again.
00:39The video gathered over three million views in seven years, and in April of 2022,
00:43TheMinuteHour posted a sequel to it by the same creator, titled The Shoobuddy Bop.
00:48This animation depicts the same angry character from the first video, standing in a riverbank,
00:52headbutting people that are being handed to him by his henchmen and then letting them float
00:56downstream in what seems to be a disturbing sort of baptism.
00:59In case that isn't enough cultish ritual vibes, the video also features cloaked
01:03figures who summon a horned demon, all while singing this catchy acapella tune.
01:07Do bop shoobuddy do bop shoobuddy do bop shoobuddy do bop
01:13In early 2025, TheMinuteHour changed the name of their channel to GamerChurch
01:18and unlisted the aforementioned videos.
01:20But The Shoobuddy Bop was re-uploaded by its creator, Drew Langlois, on January 10th,
01:24and this version garnered nearly 2 million views in two months.
01:27So how did the video start being used in memes?
01:29On September 4th, 2022, TikToker TheNeilParks reposted the video.
01:33This is the first known iteration of it appearing on TikTok, where it was reposted
01:37a number of times thereafter, with some distortions like speeding up the song,
01:41for example, trimming the original 90 second animation into a 15 second earworm.
01:49In March 2025, a green screen version of a section of the video in which men dressed
01:53in dark red robes raise a demon came to be used as a meme on Instagram and TikTok.
01:57This segment became shorthand for calling in reinforcements across meme culture,
02:01with creators weaponizing its eerie vibe for everything from gaming jokes to blue-collar
02:05humor. For example, one early iteration from TikToker SynthosArcade features a joke about
02:10performing rituals to the gods of the video game Marvel Rivals.
02:13What would make you summon a demon with your bros? Let us know in the comments,
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