# Beat the Koto Nai, Oi 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 platform[2]. ## Origin 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 off[1]. 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 branches[3]. 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, 2024[5], 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 days[2]. - **Platform:** TikTok - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2024 ## 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 beat[3]. 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 request[3]. 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 leave[2]. Bichon Frises and chihuahuas carried the earliest viral versions, with human and animated remakes showing up once the format caught on[2]. ## How It Spread After @fancydancy22's dog clip crossed six million views in under a week[2], 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 days[6], and on January 20th, @lilkx65kid's take gained more than 1.6 million views in three days[7]. 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 day[8]. 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 tag[9]. 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 entries[9]. ## How to Use 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 TikTok[2]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Beat the Koto Nai, Oi? It is a January 2024 TikTok trend that sets videos of dogs, people and characters performing the Haidilao "Subject Three" dance to the "beat the koto nai" section of Certified Trapper's song "Oi"[9]. ### Where did Beat the Koto Nai, Oi come from? The song dropped on November 7th, 2023[4], and the first widely shared dog-plus-"Oi" edit came from TikToker @vsp.dresteez on January 16th, 2024[5]. ### What does Beat the Koto Nai, Oi mean? The phrase is how listeners hear a line Certified Trapper raps at the end of "Oi," and the dance edits riff on a guest who overstays the party[2]. ### How do you use Beat the Koto Nai, Oi? Creators typically edit a dog, person or character doing the kemusan dance to the song's closing bars and add the caption "the party ended X hours ago and he's still here"[2]. ### Is Beat the Koto Nai, Oi still popular? The trend peaked in January 2024 with videos like @fancydancy22's clip crossing 6.3 million views in under a week[2], and has since settled into the archive of 2024 TikTok dance edits[9]. ## References 1. [https://www.tiktok.com/@darksoulbambino/video/7300227973481925934]() 2. [https://www.tiktok.com/@fancydancy22/video/7324891410459610410]() 3. [https://www.cnn.com/travel/china-haidilao-viral-dance-intl-hnk/index.html]() 4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMX52Z_hY_Q]() 5. [https://www.tiktok.com/@vsp.dresteez/video/7324559677939977518]() 6. [https://www.tiktok.com/@graveskii/video/7325061004595858734]() 7. [https://www.tiktok.com/@lilkx65kid/video/7326047621280206126]() 8. [https://www.tiktok.com/@lebbypebbles/video/7326740375606152494]() 9. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/beat-the-koto-nai-oi]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/beat-the-koto-nai-oi Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library