dancing baby
Animated grooving toddler
Dancing baby refers to an early internet meme from the late 1990s—a 3D-rendered animation of a diapered infant doing a cha-cha.
The animation spread virally through email chains and gained mainstream recognition after appearing on the television series *Ally McBeal*.
It's often cited as one of the first internet memes: Remember when the dancing baby was everywhere?
- viralSpreading quickly online
- memeShared online humor
- internet cultureOnline community behaviors and trends
- early internetNetwork's primitive years
- 90sFinal twentieth-century decade
pop culture · internet · chain email · CGI · computer graphics · 3D animation · animation · diaper · toddler · screensaver · hooked · feeling · wiggle · groove · bouncing · chubby · render · 3D
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