What Is Love?

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Three game-style cartoon figures in a car bob their heads in a What Is Love / Roxbury parody loop. No visible caption.

The power of groove animation

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No visible caption. Three game-style cartoon figures in a car bob their heads in a What Is Love / Roxbury parody loop. No visible caption.

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Three dark, priest-like game characters, one blue, bob their heads inside a car in a Roxbury parody loop. No visible caption.

What is Mortis animation

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No visible caption. Three dark, priest-like game characters, one blue, bob their heads inside a car in a Roxbury parody loop. No visible caption.

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Three dogs sit in a parked car at night, evoking the Roxbury car scene; the front dog appears at the steering wheel. Visible caption: What is love?

What is love, doggos

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What is love?

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About & sources

Three synchronized head-bobs turned a television car scene into a web-loop template, with pixel-art variations and new musical arrangements.

Date

Haddaway song and SNL head-bobbing scene reused in a 2005 YTMND loop.

History

The selected 2005 marks the YTMND remix wave, not the creation of Haddaway’s 1993 song or the older Saturday Night Live sketch. Know Your Meme dates the Jim Carrey, Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan car scene to March 23, 1996 and attributes a June 2, 2005 song-and-GIF page to YTMND user ligamentx. These are retrospective source attributions, not independently authenticated firsts here. It also documents a June 23 pixel-art and chiptune variation, What is NES?, followed by other YTMND adaptations and later YouTube compilations. This representative single frame omits the head movement and audio that made the loop work; it is not playable preservation. Television, music and performer-likeness rights are not cleared for public reuse by this private preview.

Know Your Meme — song, television scene and YTMND remix chronology
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