The original dancing baby animation was created in 1996 as part of 3D animation software samples. It was shared via email and became a viral internet phenomenon. Known as one of the earliest internet memes, the dancing baby gained global popularity in 1996 from email chains. It has since inspired many parodies and tribute sites and remained a symbol of early internet culture, though searches have declined since the 2000s.

1. The Dancing Baby Meme
By:
Mohit Kabra,
Advertising Juniors

2.  The original “cha-cha” dance file was developed by Michael
Girard and Robert Lurye. It was released in Autumn 1996 as
part of product sample source files included in Character
Studio, a 3D character animation software.
 Ron Lussier, who was working for Lucas Arts at the time,
tweaked the original file and shared it with co-workers via
email, sparking the baby’s internet travels.
 From that it quickly travelled to the internet and became
the strange phenomenon that it was.

3.  Dancing Baby, also known as “Baby Cha-Cha,” is a
viral video of a 3D-rendered baby dancing to the intro
of “Hooked on a Feeling” by the Swedish rock band
Blue Swede.
 Widely cited as one of the earliest examples of an
Internet phenomenon, the Dancing Baby became
globally popular via e-mail chains in 1996.

4.  Since taking off, the famous baby has appeared several
times in the media and dozens of parodies have been
made.
 It was also featured as a recurring hallucination on the TV
comedy-drama series “Ally McBeal”.
 As illustrated in the chart, the meme’s popularity has been
steadily declining in search queries throughout the 2000’s.
 The term “Dancing Baby” peaked in both September 2009
and June 2010, but referred to viral YouTube videos of
actual babies dancing. Tribute sites still remain to this day,
such as megababy.com.

5.  No, there is no end to such videos.
 There will be new forms of such memes as the time
passes by.
 This video will be viewed more and more.

6.  Different versions are created by fans all over the
world, including a “Kung Fu baby”, a “Rasta baby”,
“Samurai baby” and others, but none were nearly as
popular as the original GIF animation.
 The break dance baby.
 Michael Jackson Babies.