There is a Reddit community called "Meme Economy" which sort of treats the ongoing meme conversation as a fictional stock market and jokes about meme formats that are hot and meme formats are dying off. Well, the Harms Way meme is hot hot hot.
What is the meme? The meme takes footage of straight edge hardcore band Harms Way from July 2019, shot by hate5six, and syncs it with music that does not exactly match. It all kicked off with hardcore dancing to Shania Twain:
https://t.co/k9ZJB8fqVA pic.twitter.com/BYG4ga8KZz
— hate5six (@hate5six) May 1, 2020
All weekend, I've seen different iterations pop up and they're all hilarious. There's "Call Me Maybe"
https://twitter.com/fuckk_christ/status/1257029454305431552
Some random ass yodeling (maybe the best one?)
i raise you this pic.twitter.com/C50Acn2fhd
— tayler (@dumassbinch) May 4, 2020
Then there is the ska-riffic theme song from WWE wrestler Sami Zayn, which also works too well:
Posted by Montel Griffith on Sunday, May 3, 2020
What other songs would work here? If you are looking for the original footage, which is heavy as fuck, it starts at 9:10 in the video below:
