Ninja Dragging the Low Taper Fade Meme

About

Ninja Dragging the Low Taper Fade Meme refers to a series of TikTok videos making fun of streamer Ninja for still referencing the Imagine If Ninja Got a Low Taper Fade meme months after its virality. TikTokers made edits and memes that showed Ninja dragging the meme years into the future. Increasingly absurd iterations surfaced, like ones of Ninja as a baby or as different animals in different lifetimes. The memes used a copypasta from a video where Ninja sings "Low taper fade" and then says, "You know what’s crazy? Is that that low taper fade meme is like- Dude, it is still massive." Meme creators made AI voice parodies with the copypasta.

Origin

On January 30th, 2024, TikToker^[1] @oblivioncactus posted a clip from a then-recent Ninja stream with text overlay saying, "Ninja is dragging the low taper fade at this point." In the clip, Ninja sings "low taper fade" and then claims that the meme "is still massive." Over four months, the video received roughly 4.3 million plays and 315,300 likes (shown below).

Copypasta

Low taper fade. You know what’s crazy? Is that that low taper fade meme is like- Dude, it is still massive. Massive. I mean I’ve seen new ones that I’ve never seen before that have like millions of likes and views still that are like popping off all over the place.

On April 28th, 2024, TikToker^[2] @iitiborr reposted @oblivioncactus's TikTok,^[1] gaining over 1.8 million plays and 164,900 likes in eight days. After the viral repost, meme creators started parodying the video. Currently, first known parody was posted by TikToker^[3] @quicksilver424 on April 30th, 2024, showing Ninja as an old man with an old man voice, receiving over 14,600 plays and 580 likes in six days (shown below).

Spread

On May 1st, 2024, multiple iterations of the meme were posted and went viral, such as a video shared by TikToker^[4] @yourthirdwheel which showed a Ninja hologram in the year 6789 still dragging the meme, receiving over 3.8 million plays and 464,200 likes in five days (shown below, left).

Also on May 1st, 2024, TikToker^[5] @bpdmoder posted an alien version with Ninja on the planet "Kepler-62 e," gaining over 1.1 million plays and 157,200 likes in five days (shown below, right).

Iterations of the meme became increasingly elaborate going into May 2024, such as a video posted by TikToker^[6] @rustupload on May 5th, 2024, that showed Ninja's pet bird dragging the meme, receiving over 415,200 plays and 101,300 likes in a day (shown below).

Iterations also surfaced on YouTube in May 2024, such as a Short posted by YouTuber^[7] AI-shorts-TV on May 5th, 2024, using the AI Storytelling format, gaining over 10,000 views in a day (shown below),

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