Gwimbly's Iconic Victory Dance / Ooh Ooh Ooh

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Gwimbly's Iconic Victory Dance or Ooh Ooh Ooh, also known as I Don't Do My Iconic Victory Dance For Nothing, is a series of exploitable memes derived from a scene in Smiling Friends season two in which Gwimbly does his "iconic victory dance" after saying, "Well I don't do my iconic victory dance for nothing. Okay, I guess just this once I can do it for nothing." The episode was released on April 1st, 2024, and the scene became the subject of memes that same month, with the animation of Gwimbly doing the dance spreading as a green screen format on platforms like TikTok.

Origin

On April 1st, 2024, the first episode of Smiling Friends season two aired on Adult Swim. During the episode, Pim attempts to make a washed-up video game icon, Gwimbly, smile by getting him a new video game to star in. When the character introduces himself, he offers to do his "iconic victory dance" for five dollars. He then does it for free, swaying his hips and arms from side to side while saying, "Ooh, ooh, ooh" (shown below).

On April 3rd, TikToker^[1] @igreenscreenthings posted a green screen edit isolating the scene, garnering over 1.8 million views in six days (shown below, left). While it's unclear who first used the green screen for a meme, several examples were uploaded that day. For example, that same day, TikToker^[2] @bebopsloan posted a meme using the green screen that gained over 88,000 views in the same span of time (shown below, right).

Spread

The meme continued to spread, mostly on TikTok and YouTube, over the following days. On April 3rd, 2024, TikToker^[3] @burnerpyro posted a meme using the green screen that gained over 288,000 views in six days (shown below, left). On April 4th, TikToker^[4] @tikglock42 posted a meme that gained over 420,000 views in five days (shown below, right).

On April 3rd and 4th, 2024, YouTubers^[5]^[6] Unstable Savage and Rob Yulfo posted video edits using the dancing scene, garnering over 55,000 views and 78,000 views in five days (shown below, left and right). On April 7th, the green screen was uploaded to the I Green Screen Things YouTube^[7] channel, garnering over 58,000 views in two days.

That day, X^[8] user @MediEx2012 posted an edit in which Gwimbly does his iconic victory dance in Team Fortress 2, garnering over 13,000 likes and 2,100 reposts in two days (shown below).