Have you seen memes showing these animated cultists summoning demons to do their bidding? They're from a 2022 absurdist animated 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,
00:13that's part cult ritual and part absurdist comedy.
00:15But from what depths was this meme summoned?
00:18The lore here begins on August 26th, 2018, when YouTuber TheMinuteHour posted an Adult Swim-esque video,
00:24animated and voiced by Drew Langlois, depicting a man hearing someone say, quote,
00:28something terribly offensive, and then repeatedly and violently head-butting, or bopping, the person who said it.
00:33I give him a head bop!
00:35Oh, and he doesn't appreciate that.
00:37But I bop! I bop him again!
00:39The video gathered over 3 million views in 7 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,
00:52head-butting people that are being handed to him by his henchmen,
00:55and then letting them float downstream 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 figures who summon a horned demon,
01:05all while singing this catchy a cappella 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,
01:36where it was reposted a number of times thereafter,
01:39with some distortions, like speeding up the song, for example,
01:41trimming the original 90-second animation into a 15-second earworm.
01:45Shoobuddy do do do do do, bop!
01:47Shoobuddy do do do do do, bop!
01:49In March 2025, a green-screen version of a section of the video
01:52in which men dressed in dark red robes raise a demon
01:55came 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
02:03for everything from gaming jokes to blue-collar humor.
02:06For example, one early iteration from TikToker SynthosArcade
02:09features a joke about performing rituals to the gods of the video game Marvel Rivals.
02:13What would make you summon a demon with your bros?
02:15Let us know in the comments,
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