Dancing Pallbearers No Pallbearers
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About
Dancing Pallbearers or Dancing Coffin refers to several videos showing Ghanian pallbearers dancing while they are carrying a coffin. In March 2020, the videos, paired with EDM song memes.
Origin
The first of the three most popular videos that gained popularity in connection with the trend was uploaded to by Travelin Sister on January 22nd, 2015 and depicted Ghana's cultural phenomenon of dancing pallbearers (shown below, left). The video received over 2.9 million views in five years. Another video, a report by BBC News Africa, was uploaded to YouTube on July 27th, 2017. That video received over 681,000 views in three years (shown below, right).
The third video, which depicted pallbearers accidentally dropping a coffin during their dance, was first posted by user Bigscout Nana Prempeth on May 2nd, 2019, gaining over 2,900 reactions, 4,600 shares and 350,000 views in one year (shown below). On May 3rd, 2019, the video was reuploaded to YouTube where it received over 725,000 views in one year.
The exact first instance of the video being paired with the EDM track "Astronomia" by Tony Igy is unknown. On February 26th, 2020, TikTok user @lawyer_ggmu (previously @khvichagogava) posted the earliest known instance of the meme (made by an unknown author) in which the video, paired with the song, was used as a punchline for a clip. The TikTok received over 4.5 million views and 474,700 likes in one month (shown below).
Spread
In the following weeks, the video gained significant popularity on TikTok as a punchline for FAIL clips in a manner similar to memes, implying that the person in the FAIL video has died. For example, on March 6th, 2020, TikTok account Trickshots posted a version of the meme that received over 2.9 million views and 237,000 likes (shown below, left). A March 12th meme by TikTok user @xacamnhuong received over 2.7 million views and 330,800 likes (shown below, center). A March 14 meme by @.minh_hieu gained over 7.2 million views and 478,400 likes (shown below, right).
In the following weeks, the meme received further spread to and other online platforms. For example on March 20th, 2020, Facebook page J e k y uploaded an edit that was received over 660 reacts and 2,600 shares in one week. On YouTube, compilations of Dancing Pallbearer memes, often referred to as Dancing Coffin memes or Astronomia memes, were posted.
Astronomia
is a 2010 electronic dance music (EDM) song by Tony Igy. The song, as well as a 2014 remix by Vicetone, has since been used in a series of videos on YouTube and TikTok, most notably in the Dancing Pallbearers videos.
