In the silence of his basement, Eli realized the irony. Millions of terabytes of human knowledge were stored in the Archive—speeches, wars, scientific breakthroughs. Yet, here he was, preserving the memory of a man named Steezy Grossman who, for one brief moment in 2013, decided that the best way to entertain the internet was to combine a dance craze with a bathroom emergency.

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: Outlets like BuzzFeed and VICE reported receiving cease-and-desist letters from John’s attorneys asserting copyright over the footage. The Role of the Internet Archive

One afternoon, Steezy had a brilliant idea: combine the —already a relic by 2013—with a sound effect of a very wet poop splat. He called it the “Harlem Plop.” He put on a blurry Darth Vader mask, shook alone for 15 seconds, then froze while a cartoon poop emoji dropped across the screen. He titled the video: “HARLEM SHAKE POOP STEEZY GROSSMAN (DON’T WATCH AT 3AM).”

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: It was originally hosted on a dedicated website, HarlemShakePoop.com , which John promoted at the time as a "visual art piece".

The trend became one of the first truly global, crowd-sourced video memes. Everyone from office workers and military personnel to mainstream celebrities and sports teams uploaded their own iterations. It represented a peak moment in participatory culture, where the barrier to entry was low, and the reward was instant community alignment. The "Poop" Subculture: YouTube Poop (YTP)

Maxing out saturation, warping geometry, or applying crude special effects to induce a psychedelic, chaotic aesthetic.

When combined, refers to a specific sub-genre of remix that existed for exactly three weeks in April 2013. It was the "anti-Harlem Shake."

In early 2013, the internet experienced a monocultural shift when a comedy video by Filthy Frank (George Miller) set to the song "Harlem Shake" by Baauer exploded into a global phenomenon. The format was rigid yet infinitely adaptable: one person dancing alone in a room full of oblivious people for 15 seconds, followed by a sudden jump cut where the entire crowd erupts into erratic, costumed chaos.

Because the original Steezy Grossman website and YouTube links were archived by the organization's Wayback Machine prior to being taken down, the "Harlem Shake Poop" clip was essentially saved from permanent destruction. To this day, the video remains viewable in the Internet Archive Library .