5 ms·
Gangnam Style in Pure CSS (Easter Egg by Google)
- ghubbard 14y agoOr you could go direct to the Google page [0] and hover over the coloured stripe at the bottom. [0] http://www.google.com/zeitgeist/2012/#maia-signature http://www.google.com/zeitgeist/2012/#maia-signature
- jeffjose 14y agoPutting it up on jsfiddle lets you see all the html/css/js at the same place, and also helps you tinker with it. You could say its one and the same thing, and I'd say it is - but maybe a lil more :) -jeff
- Surio 14y agoUnbelievable. :-D! Even PSY wouldn't have imagined this kind of success for that song. Although I suspect, a lot had to do with the spontaneity of the accompanying music video.
- smackfu 14y agoWow, the video has 3.7 million comments. That you can see 7 at a time.
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- klibertp 14y agoI don't know if it's a good place to ask, but I was puzzled for quite some time already and can't figure it out on my own... So, the question is, what made PSY and "Gangnam Style" this popular (in the West - I read on Wikipedia that in Japan it had "luke-warm" reception)? Could someone please try to explain this to me like I never heard the song and never saw the video? Thanks.
- arn 14y agoAn absurd, over-the-top, "WTF?" video that you want to share with other people, and (importantly) with catchy music.
- citricsquid 14y agoThe song is catchy and the dance means there's an incentive to have heard and recognise the song. Same deal as the Macarena (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macarena_(song) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macarena_(song)) and Crank That (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crank_That_(Soulja_Boy) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crank_That_(Soulja_Boy)). The combination of the internet growing and gaining mainstream adoption (it's now "cool" to know about internet memes) and the "old medias" desire to be in on "new media" made it inevitable. Gangnam Style is just the "perfect" combination of everything needed to be a success. Also he attended almost every big TV show around, so after appearing on one or two big shows every show had to have him.
- LoveLinux 14y agoThere's an odd obsession many whites have with Asians.
- Zirro 14y ago"I read on Wikipedia that in Japan it had "luke-warm" reception" Japan and South Korea doesn't have the best of relations, which may explain why it hasn't taken off there the way it has in many other parts of the world.
- jlgreco 14y agoI thought that sounded a little far fetched, since I had thought that K-Pop was popular in Japan, but in looking for sources for that I mostly just found articles like this: http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2012/08/27/territory-tensions-threaten-japans-k-pop-boom/ http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2012/08/27/territory-tens... http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/10/15/gangnam-style-is-japan-immune-to-psy-mania/ http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/10/15/gangnam-style-is-japan-i... I think you may be right.
- B-Con 14y ago
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- jcl 14y agoNote: The animation is pure CSS, but the component graphics are PNGs. Given the simplicity of the graphics, I was rather hoping the whole thing was styled divs.
- seanmccann 14y agoI'm getting 503 errors on the images.
- Zirro 14y ago<style type="gangnam">
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago<style type="강남구">
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y ago<style type="���">
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- blt 14y agoBut he is not doing the horse riding dance!
- misterbwong 14y agoif you stay hovered over him, he will :)
- salilpa 14y agoI think bit is talking about the part where psy lifts his right hand in the air and do a cowboy dance
- DigitalSea 14y agoPure CSS, uses transparent PNG's... Can't say that I am not disappointed the whole thing wasn't used cleverly styled DIV's, I reckon it can be done.
- Surio 14y agoRelated thread on gangnam popularity: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4825537 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4825537