Beat the Koto Nai, Oi — Three-panel collage of dogs standing on hind legs with captions about a party ending and the text 'beat the kotonai'.

Beat the Koto Nai, Oi

2024viral videoclassic

Published November 9, 2026

Beat the Koto Nai, Oi, also known as Dogs Haidilao Dancing, is a TikTok video trend from January 2024 that pairs clips of dogs, people and characters performing the Chinese Haidilao "Subject Three" dance with a snippet of Certified Trapper's song "Oi." The trend took off alongside the caption "the party ended two hours ago and he's still here," with dog videos driving the biggest view counts on the platform2.

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Overview

Beat the Koto Nai, Oi, also called Dogs Haidilao Dancing, is a TikTok edit format that drops the Haidilao "Subject Three" dance onto the tail end of Certified Trapper's 2023 song "Oi," where he raps a line that sounds like "beat the koto nai"1. Most entries are short loops of a dog, a person or a cartoon character hitting the dance's wrist-twisting, knee-swinging motions on the beat3.

The dance itself, called kemusan in Mandarin, began as a wedding routine from the Guangxi region and spread through the Haidilao hot pot chain, where servers perform it tableside on request3. Pair that with a rap vocal and a caption like "the party ended two hours ago and he's still here," and you get the running joke: a scruffy guest who will not leave2. Bichon Frises and chihuahuas carried the earliest viral versions, with human and animated remakes showing up once the format caught on2.

Origin & Background

Platform
TikTok
Date
2024

Rapper Certified Trapper released the song and music video for "Oi" on November 7th, 2023, which ends with the mondegreen-ready line fans heard as "beat the koto nai"4. An "Oi" audio uploaded on TikTok by @darksoulbambino on November 11th gathered roughly 3,400 uses over the next two months before the dance edits took off1.

The Haidilao "Subject Three" dance went viral in China that same November, with CNN reporting that diners had to say "kemusan" to unlock a staff performance across the chain's 1,400 branches3. By mid-January 2024, TikTok edits had glued the two together: @vsp.dresteez posted a dog doing the Haidilao dance to "Oi" on January 16th, 20245, and @fancydancy22 followed on January 17th with a different dog and the caption "the party ended 2 hours ago and he still here," pulling over 6.3 million views within six days2.

How It Spread

After @fancydancy22's dog clip crossed six million views in under a week2, the format spread to other animals and to people within days. On January 17th, 2024, @graveskii posted a chihuahua version that reached over 1.2 million views in six days6, and on January 20th, @lilkx65kid's take gained more than 1.6 million views in three days7.

Human participants joined by cross-cutting with the dog clips. On January 22nd, 2024, @lebbypebbles posted a video performing the Haidilao dance to "Oi" while intercutting the viral animal footage, picking up over 1.6 million views in a day8. By late January, the sound was also being used with the original Haidilao workers and with characters who were not doing the Subject Three routine at all, loosening the format into a broader "Oi" dance tag9.

Know Your Meme catalogued the trend as Beat the Koto Nai, Oi, noting the frequent recurrence of the "party ended two hours ago" caption across top entries9.

Timeline

2023-11-07

Certified Trapper releases the "Oi" song and music video containing the "beat the koto nai" line.

2023-11-11

TikTok user @darksoulbambino uploads an original sound clip of "Oi" that gathers around 3,400 uses over two months.

2023-11

CNN reports on the Haidilao "Subject Three" (kemusan) dance going viral across the chain's 1,400 branches.

2024-01-16

TikToker @vsp.dresteez posts an edit setting a Bichon Frise doing the Haidilao dance to "Oi."

2024-01-17

@fancydancy22 posts a dog edit with the caption "the party ended 2 hours ago and he still here," reaching over 6.3 million views in six days.

2024-01-17

@graveskii posts a chihuahua dancing to "Oi," collecting over 1.2 million views within six days.

2024-01-22

@lebbypebbles posts a cross-cut video of himself doing the dance with the viral dog clips, hitting 1.6 million views in a day.

How to Use This Meme

A typical edit syncs the dance's sideways knee swings and wrist flicks to the final "beat the koto nai" stretch of "Oi." Creators often add the "the party ended X hours ago and he's still here" caption, swap in any dancer they like (dog, chihuahua, person or animated character), and keep the clip short enough to loop cleanly on TikTok2.

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