Leekspin, also known as Loituma Girl, is a flash animation loop of a female anime character twirling a stock of spring onion, often referred to as a leek or a negi, while set to the Finnish folk song "Ievan Polkka" (Eva's Polka). Originating from a viral video, the emote gained major success on Twitch after being enabled by multiple popular streamers, later gaining popularity as source material for memes in which the cat "vibes" to various music. Related Memes CatJam / Vibing CatĬatJAM is a BetterTTV custom Twitch emote of a white cat rhythmically bobbing its head as if to the beat of a song. On October 2nd, novelty Twitter account Cat Vibes To reuploaded the meme, with the post gaining over 1.1 million views in one week. On November 1st, 2020, Bilal Göregen reuploaded meme to YouTube, with the video gaining over 1.3 million views in one week. On October 26th, Redditor IlluBillu69 posted an edit that received over 3,500 upvotes in /r/PiratedGames. For example, on October 25th, Redditor TheReal_Seek posted a meme that gained over 4,600 upvotes in /r/memes subreddit. The meme received viral spread online in the following days for example, an October 24th, 2020, repost in /r/dankmemes subreddit gained over 25,500 upvotes prior to being deleted.įollowing the repost in /r/dankmemes, the edit gained popularity on Reddit as an object labeling meme and a reaction video. The video did not see viral popularity as meme template until on October 21st, 2020, Instagram account brightsideofig posted a Dad and the Dog meme based on the edit that received over 631,500 likes in three weeks (shown below). That day, Facebook user A-t-a-r-i-s-107165640645645 made a version of the video that received more than 10.8 million views, 316,000 likes and 51,000 shares in less than two months. On October 20th, Twitter user reposted the video, with the post gaining over 5,800 retweets, 13,000 likes and 247,000 views in the same period. On October 19th, Twitter user reposted the video, with the tweet gaining over 1,100 retweets, 3,100 likes and 124,700 views in three weeks. On October 19th, Twitter user posted the earliest meme based on the video, labeling the cat "me" and the drummer "silly things." The tweet did not receive traction. On October 18th, Twitter user replied with an edit in which Vibing Cat was edited in, with the post gaining over 220 retweets, 1,800 likes and 45,400 views in three weeks (original post no longer available, higher quality remake below). The video did not see viral spread until between October 16th, Twitter user posted a video in which a dancing anime girl was edited onto the bench next to Göregen. The video received over 1.9 million views in one year (mirror below). On June 17th, 2019, YouTube user Dejan Petrovski uploaded a video of blind Turkish street musician Bilal Göregen performing Ievan Polka on a tambourine.
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