A K-pop single released on 18 February 2013 built on the Gwiyomi Player, a counting hand-gesture meme started in October 2012 by the idol Jung Il Hoon. The song gave the gesture a soundtrack, and versions multiplied across Asian social platforms. The record's entry for a meme that got a single released about it.
Died around 2016, when the gesture had been done by enough adults on television to stop reading as cute. Survived by the counting, which still appears in photographs.
Copied in hundreds of user versions across Asian networks through 2013, each performing the same counted gestures to the same track.
The order matters. The gesture came first, in October 2012; the song was written afterwards to accompany something people were already doing.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
