# Shoebody Bop Shoebody Bop is a 2022 animated YouTube video by Drue Langlois and The Minute Hour featuring blue-robed figures headbutting people to an acapella tune, which went viral on TikTok and Instagram in early 2025 as a green-screen summoning meme. ## Origin The song and video were written and voiced by YouTuber The Minute Hour and animated by Drue Langlois, posted to The Minute Hour's channel on April 17th, 2022 as a two-minute-plus animation titled 'The Shoebody Bop'[3]. It was framed as a sequel to their 2018 short 'Something Terribly Offensive,' in which the same angry man headbutts a stranger at a bank[3]. In early 2025, The Minute Hour rebranded the channel to GAMER.CHURCH and unlisted both animations, so Langlois reposted The Shoebody Bop to his own channel on January 10th, 2025, where it pulled roughly 1.9 million views in its first two months back online[2]. - **Platform:** YouTube (2022) / TikTok (viral spread 2025) - **Creator:** Drue Langlois and The Minute Hour - **Date:** 2022 ## Overview Shoebody Bop, also called the Summoning Meme, is a surreal animated clip built around a short acapella chant of 'shoebody do, bop, bop bop'[1]. The original video shows a priest-like figure in blue robes standing in a river and headbutting a line of people in white robes, while other blue-robed henchmen sing the tune and red-robed figures eventually raise a horned demon out of the water[2]. The animation style is scratchy and off-model in a way viewers compared to early 2000s Adult Swim programming[2]. When the clip broke out on TikTok in 2025, the ten-second stretch of red-robed men waving their hands and conjuring the demon was the section people actually looped, usually sped up to feel more urgent[1]. That summoning gesture is what gave the meme its second name[3]. ## How It Spread Early TikTok reuploads set the stage. On September 4th, 2022, TikToker @thenealparks mirrored the video, and their alternate account @superflyscifiguy posted a sped-up cut on November 26th, 2024 that pushed past 400,000 plays and 60,000 likes within three months[3]. On January 31st, 2025, a /r/TheRandomest post by /u/Kind-Plantain2438 asking for a source ID collected over 9,000 upvotes, helping the clip find a wider audience[3]. The Instagram account @shoebody_bop_daily started posting sped-up cuts on February 16th, 2025, with a February 15th upload reaching around 340,000 views and 19,000 likes in a month[3]. By March 2025, users had isolated the red-robed demon-summoning segment into a green-screen template used to 'summon' whatever chaotic outcome the caption wanted[1]. Gaming and blue-collar takes drove the peak. On March 8th, 2025, TikToker @synthosarcade used the template to joke about ritualizing wins in Marvel Rivals, an edit that racked up more than 300,000 plays[2]. A week later, Instagram user @barnbuiltcrew captioned it 'Me and the boys casting a spell to make sure the engine rebuild holds,' pulling roughly 360,000 plays and 28,000 likes in three days[3]. ## How to Use The common convention is to grab the green-screen clip of the red-robed figures raising their hands and overlay it on a scene, then caption it with whatever the poster is trying to conjure into existence, from ADHD focus to a friend group's next chaotic night out[1]. Edits are typically sped up from the original tempo to make the summoning feel more frantic[1]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Shoebody Bop? It is a 2022 animated video by Drue Langlois and The Minute Hour built around an acapella 'shoebody do, bop, bop bop' chant, which returned in 2025 as a TikTok summoning meme[2]. ### Where did Shoebody Bop come from? The Minute Hour uploaded the full animation to YouTube on April 17th, 2022 as a sequel to their 2018 short 'Something Terribly Offensive'[3]. ### What does Shoebody Bop mean? The name comes from the acapella lyric the choir of blue-robed figures sings while the priest-like character headbutts people in the river[1]. ### How do you use Shoebody Bop? Users typically overlay the sped-up green-screen clip of red-robed figures conjuring the demon on top of a scene and caption whatever result they want to 'summon'[1]. ### Is Shoebody Bop still popular? The meme surged after Drue Langlois reposted the video on January 10th, 2025 and peaked in March 2025 with green-screen edits on TikTok and Instagram[2]. ## References 1. [https://dailydot.com/shoebody-bop-meme-tiktok]() 2. [https://www.dexerto.com/tiktok/tiktoks-shoebody-bop-song-explained-as-summoning-meme-goes-viral-3168516/]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shoebody-bop]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/shoebody-bop Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library