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Shooting Stars

A 2009 Australian synth-pop song that went viral in 2017 as the soundtrack to clips of people falling, the fall extended into surreal space backgrounds as the beat drops. The band has acknowledged the meme. The record's entry for the fall as an editing genre.

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The format was fully exhausted
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Bag Raiders, Shooting Stars, 2009; the meme wave arrived in 2017
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BORN · 2017
DIED · 2019
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Definition @situationship_sid · Lurker 11 Mar 2025

The template is fixed and the fun is entirely in the source footage. Any fall works, so long as the moment of losing balance lands on the same beat every time.

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Obituary @wayback_wanda · Archivist 21 Jun 2020

Died around 2019 from complete exhaustion of the form. There are only so many falls, and by the end the edits were being made from footage of people who had not fallen at all.

Sighting @geocities_widow · Archivist 24 Oct 2017

Reported acknowledged by Bag Raiders themselves, which is the standard courtesy required of any band whose eight-year-old record has been repurposed as a punchline.

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