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IShowSpeed Egyptian Dance GIF refers to a reaction GIF and caption meme featuring YouTube and Twitch streamer IShowSpeed (or Speed) doing a dance after he lost another game of Super Mario on the Egypt-like desert themed level. The GIF shows Speed dancing with his hands folded, making a wave with his palms, among other moves, all set to the stereotypical Ancient Egyptian music that played after he died on the level. The meme has since been used to joke about someone online saying something dumb or nonsensical.

Origin

On April 25th, 2022, streamer IShowSpeed hosted a YouTube^[1] live titled, "A+," that gathered over 1.3 million views in three years. The video shows IShowSpeed playing the video game New Super Mario Bros on the Wii, and repeatedly dying on the desert-themed World 2.

At the 49:50 minute timestamp, IShowSpeed breaks out into a dance to the stereotypical Egyptian-themed music that plays every time a level restarts. The video gathered over 1.3 million views in three years.

Also on April 25th, YouTuber^[2] Speedy Boykins posted the meme clip with the title, " iShowSpeed Turns Into A Egyptian Dancer 😂," gathering over 300,000 likes in three years.

The earliest known use of the GIF as a meme is a September 6th, 2025, tweet by X^[3] @PikkuProgram that read, "Kagurabachi would be nothing without the sword fights," gathering over 7,000 likes in two months.

Spread

On September 20th, 2025, X^[4] user @wutheriingdykes tweeted, "me trying to remember if any of these things are actually in undertale or if toby fox is just fucking with me," in reference to the video game Deltarune. The post gathered over 38,000 likes in over a month.

On September 29th, X^[5] user @mainmajin tweeted, "Niggas complaining about their manga potentially getting a movie when they haven’t even gotten an anime series yet," gathering over 28,000 likes in a month.

On October 3rd, 2025, X^[7] user @HYPEX tweeted, "NO WAY I JUST FELL FOR AN AI LEAK," gathering over 59,000 likes in three weeks.

On October 28th, X^[6] user @raimcandies tweeted, "classmate was using chatgpt to write an essay about why using ai is bad," gathering over 550,000 likes in two days.

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