The Nana Otafrija pall-bearing and waiting service group from Ghana are currently global superstars and here’s how far their footages have reached.
The ‘Dancing Pallbearers’ or ‘Dancing Coffin’ memes refers to several videos showing Ghanian pallbearers dancing while they are carrying a coffin.
A report which featured the group was uploaded to YouTube on July 27th, 2017 and has since received six million views.
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In the report, Benjamin Aidoo, who is the leader of the dancing pallbearers said,
‘‘I decided to add choreography to it so if the client comes to us, we just ask them: “Do you want it solemn or do you want a bit more of a display? Or maybe you want some choreography on it?”
Watch the video below:
However, it a version of the video being paired with the EDM track “Astronomia” by Tony Igy posted on February 26th, 2020 as a punchline for a FAIL clip that made the group go viral.
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The video gained significant popularity as a punchline for FAIL clips which showed that the person in the FAIL video died.
Following the coronavirus outbreak, they received further spread to Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and other online platforms as means of warning people to obey preventive measures to be alive.
The new meme format was featured in VICE. The writer said:
“Ghanaian pallbearers dancing with a casket in a highly choreographed routine, lifting it up and lowering it, pretending to drop it and laying down dead in an homage to James Brown, makes all the horrors of the world easier to handle. It’s not a joyful laugh, but a grim one.“
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The group has since been featured through various formats in games and on billboards across the world.
By going viral, the Prampram-based group was also featured by the international news organization, Aljazeera.
They are the new source of joy for many people under lockdown and the current “MEME KINGS” on social media.
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