Okay hold on but we canât talk about Dragostea Din Tei without talking about Gary Brolsma. Yes, thereâs a link above but that doesnât really explain just how formative a video this was in the relatively early days of the internet.
âThe Numa Numa Danceâ was posted in December 2004 to Newgrounds.com and was one of the first viral videos.
Estimates on how many times this video has been viewed run somewhere around Ÿ of a billion views.
News articles at the time talked about how this video by itself âjustified the existence of webcams.â (Though I think the reason for the first webcam was reason enough.)
Letâs go back to the view count, though. If one person wanted to watch the Numa Numa Dance video approximately as many times as it has been watched in the past 19 years, and finish up the watching this year, they would have had to start roughly during the Battle of Piraeus in 403 BCE.
Humanity has, collectively, spent about 2426 years watching Gary Brolsma joyfully dance to Dragostea Din Tei.
The song charted on its own, donât get me wrong. Itâs still something like the 4th best-selling single of all time in France and the most successful Romanian-language pop song of all time. But its memetic longevity? There you canât skip over âthe Numa Numa Dance.â That is the Deep Memetic Magic of long ago.
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