# 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. ## 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