# Dominos App Featuring Hatsune Miku Dominos App Featuring Hatsune Miku is a 2013 iOS app from Domino's Pizza Japan that let customers order pizza while taking photos and making dance clips with the Vocaloid star. Its awkward English-language launch video starring Domino's Japan CEO Scott Oelkers became a Western internet punchline and spawned a wave of YouTube Poop remixes. ## Overview Dominos App Featuring Hatsune Miku is an iOS app Domino's Pizza Japan released in March 2013 as a tie-in with Yamaha's VOCALOID crew[4]. Users could order pizza, take photos with the turquoise-haired virtual singer, and produce short clips of Miku dancing on top of a pizza box through a feature called "Pizza Stage Live." The app was Japan-only and shipped with exclusive Vocaloid songs performed by the character. The pitch was that this was a real fan-facing product rather than a straight commercial, and Domino's own store crews had been writing the Miku tracks in the run-up to launch[2]. Outside Japan, coverage fixated on how odd it looked to see a global pizza chain hand its marketing to a holographic anime pop star[1]. ## How It Spread Western pop culture blogs jumped on the launch that same week and mostly ran with the strangeness angle. AdWeek's John Tejada wrote that Oelkers's enthusiasm "comes off as more than a little forced and awkward," calling the clip "either awful or awesome, depending on how you look at it"[1]. Kotaku, RocketNews24 and the Huffington Post published similar takes the same week, each fixating on the collision between a fast-food CEO and a virtual pop star. YouTube Poop editors got to the announcement video within a day. As early as March 7, 2013, remixes started chopping Oelkers's lines and looping the character's name into off-color puns, most commonly reducing "Hatsune Miku" to just "me" so the CEO ended up saying things like "Have you heard of me?" and "Have some fun with me!"[4]. Search results for "hatsune miku domino's poop" ran into the thousands by that August. Inside Japan the actual product landed. The limited-edition Miku-themed pizza boxes sold out nationwide within six days of release, and Domino's kept the Vocalo Creative Club archives up on its Nico Nico Douga channel afterwards alongside the finished Vocaloid tracks[2]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Dominos App Featuring Hatsune Miku? It is a March 2013 iOS app from Domino's Pizza Japan that let customers order pizza, take photos with the Vocaloid character Hatsune Miku, and generate dance clips of her on a pizza box via a mode called "Pizza Stage Live"[4]. ### Where did Dominos App Featuring Hatsune Miku come from? Domino's Japan announced the tie-up on October 22, 2012 with the Vocalo Creative Club fan campaign and unveiled the finished app in a March 6, 2013 YouTube video hosted by CEO Scott Oelkers[3]. ### What does Dominos App Featuring Hatsune Miku mean? It refers to both the Japan-only app itself and the meme surrounding its awkward English-language announcement, which Western outlets like AdWeek treated as either awful or awesome depending on the viewer[1]. ### How do you use Dominos App Featuring Hatsune Miku? The app itself was Japan-only and geared to iOS ordering, but online it became raw material for YouTube Poop editors who chopped Oelkers's lines and reduced "Hatsune Miku" to "me" for gags like "Have some fun with me!"[4]. ### Is Dominos App Featuring Hatsune Miku still popular? The app and campaign are a period piece from 2013, remembered as a classic Vocaloid-meets-corporate marketing moment rather than an active trend, with the Vocalo Creative Club material still archived on Domino's Nico Nico Douga channel[2]. ## References 1. [https://www.adweek.com/adfreak/scott-oelkers-and-hatsune-miku-together-last-crazy-video-dominos-japan-147884]() 2. [https://ch.nicovideo.jp/dominos]() 3. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVV95JQcWhg]() 4. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dominos-app-featuring-hatsune-miku]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/dominos-app-featuring-hatsune-miku Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library