# ME!ME!ME!

ME!ME!ME! is a 2014 electronic pop song by Japanese producer TeddyLoid with lyrics by Daoko, released alongside a hyper-stylized animated music video through Hideaki Anno's Japan Animator Expo web series. Its suggestive imagery, pink-haired female lead Mimi and psychedelic assault of dancing girls turned it into one of the most argued-about anime shorts of the decade.

## Origin
A preview of the animated music video was uploaded on November 17, 2014 to the official website of Japan Animator Expo, followed by the full-length video on November 21[1]. Japan Animator Expo was launched in late October 2014 by Hideaki Anno's Studio Khara together with Dwango as a weekly showcase for shorts by up-and-coming animators[6].

TeddyLoid composed the track, Daoko wrote the lyrics, and the visuals were a joint effort by character designer Shuichi Iseki and executive director Hibiki Yoshizaki, with the official Animator Expo blurb bluntly describing the plot as a young man being attacked and ravished by many girls (translated from Japanese)[1].

- **Platform:** Japan Animator Expo (source) / 4chan and pixiv (viral spread)
- **Creator:** TeddyLoid (music), Daoko (lyrics), Hibiki Yoshizaki (director), Shuichi Iseki (character design)
- **Date:** 2014

## Overview
The ME!ME!ME! music video runs about six minutes and follows a checked-out young man getting pulled through a candy-colored assault of dancing girls, weapons and cake-like body horror set to TeddyLoid's four-on-the-floor synth track[1]. Character designer Shuichi Iseki and executive director Hibiki Yoshizaki built the piece around Mimi, a pink-haired lead whose looped facial expressions and warped anatomy did most of the visual heavy lifting[1].

The tone sits between idol-anime parody and industrial nightmare, and much of the short's staying power came from viewers arguing whether it was a critique of otaku consumption or an extremely well-animated horny short[2]. Isolated frames of Mimi, the recurring flower-crown pose and the cake-morph transformation are still shared as reaction images and reblog fodder years after the original upload[4].

## How It Spread
English-language anime press picked up the short within a day, with AnimeNewsNetwork running a write-up on November 18, 2014 flagging the Studio Khara connection[3]. A follow-up piece and a NeoGAF discussion thread carried it into wider Western anime circles across the same week[2].

The video landed hardest on 4chan's /a/ board, where several discussion threads hit the 500-post cap over November 21 to 23, 2014, arguing whether Mimi was a critique of moe fandom or a straight fetish object[4]. Fan art blew up on pixiv and Tumblr inside the first month, and Danbooru and Gelbooru quickly built dedicated me!me!me! tags heavy with NSFW derivations[4].

On May 1, 2015, TeddyLoid and Daoko released a follow-up titled ME!ME!ME! CHRONIC, with new footage VJ-reconstructed by Hibiki Yoshizaki, sankaku triangle, flapper3 and Studio Khara, keeping the original short in rotation as a reference point for Japanese online music video culture[5].

## How to Use
ME!ME!ME! functions as a shared visual shorthand rather than a captioned template. People typically post crops of Mimi, the flower-crown close-up or the cake-morph frame as reaction images, tag original art with me!me!me! on pixiv or Danbooru, or cite the video when discussing suggestive art-directed anime shorts and the Studio Khara style[4].

## Frequently Asked Questions
### What is ME!ME!ME!?
ME!ME!ME! is a 2014 electronic pop song by TeddyLoid with lyrics by Daoko, released with an animated music video directed by Hibiki Yoshizaki through the Japan Animator Expo web series[1].

### Where did ME!ME!ME! come from?
It debuted on the Japan Animator Expo website on November 17 and 21, 2014, as part of the Studio Khara and Dwango-run showcase of animator shorts[1][6].

### What does ME!ME!ME! mean?
The Animator Expo description frames the video as a young man being attacked and ravished by many girls, and viewers commonly read it as a warped commentary on otaku consumption via the pink-haired lead Mimi (translated from Japanese)[1].

### How do you use ME!ME!ME!?
It circulates as reaction crops of Mimi and the video's key frames, and as a tag on pixiv, Danbooru and Gelbooru for fan art referencing the short's style[4].

### Is ME!ME!ME! still popular?
It stays a classic reference in anime music video circles, and TeddyLoid and Daoko revisited it with the ME!ME!ME! CHRONIC remix on May 1, 2015[5].

## References
1. [https://web.archive.org/web/20141121044601/http://animatorexpo.com/mememe/](<https://web.archive.org/web/20141121044601/http://animatorexpo.com/mememe/>)
2. [https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-11-22/khara-japan-animator-expo-posts-teddyloid-music-video/.81440](<https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-11-22/khara-japan-animator-expo-posts-teddyloid-music-video/.81440>)
3. [https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-11-18/3rd-animator-expo-short-is-me-me-me-teddyloid-music-video/.81306](<https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-11-18/3rd-animator-expo-short-is-me-me-me-teddyloid-music-video/.81306>)
4. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/mememe](<https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/mememe>)
5. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150505012310/http://animatorexpo.com/mememechronic/](<https://web.archive.org/web/20150505012310/http://animatorexpo.com/mememechronic/>)
6. [https://web.archive.org/web/20141027185041/http://animatorexpo.com/](<https://web.archive.org/web/20141027185041/http://animatorexpo.com/>)

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