A Japanese earworm running about forty-five seconds, in which a man in a leopard-print outfit combines a pen with a pineapple and an apple and narrates the result. Almost nothing happens and it happens very memorably. The record's entry for the shortest complete viral music video on file.
Died around 2019, worn out by its own repeatability. Survived by primary-school playgrounds worldwide, where it was still being performed years after the internet had finished with it.
A child I was babysitting in 2016 performed the whole thing for me with two pieces of fruit and a biro. She was four. She had the choreography exactly right.
The length is the design. It ends before you can decide whether you liked it, which leaves only the option of playing it again or showing it to somebody else.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
