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Tunak Tunak Tun

A 1998 Daler Mehndi song whose video green-screens four copies of the singer over computer-generated landscapes. He made it that way deliberately, after critics said his music was only popular because his videos featured dancing women. The internet took it as an accident and passed it round for a decade.

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Cause of death
The early-forum meme economy ended
First sighting
Daler Mehndi, 1998; circulated on early video sites and forums from the mid-2000s
Life & death · 2005–2027
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PEAK 2008
BORN · 2006
DIED · 2012
NOW · 2026

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Definition @lobby_leader · Poster 6 Apr 2019

The video is an argument, not a mishap. Four Mehndis and no dancers was the response to a specific criticism, and the joke the internet made of it missed the point entirely.

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Obituary @archive_dot_org · Archivist 14 Dec 2015

Died around 2012 as a forum staple. Survived by an enormous body of animation and game footage set to the track, and by an audience that still cannot say what the video was for.

Correction @wayback_wanda · Archivist 20 Mar 2008

The effects are not incompetent. They are 1998 effects used on purpose to strip everything out of the frame except the performer, which was the whole stated intention.

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