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title: "Hampster Dance"
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# Hampster Dance

HTML: [Hampster Dance](https://openvibe.meme/m/hampster-dance)

Internet meme · Classic

# Hampster Dance

An early Internet meme consisting of rows of animated hamsters dancing to a sped-up version of the song Whistle-Stop.

- First seen: 1997-01-01
- Last seen: 2026-10-31
- Uses cited: 3
- Revision: 2

## Where it started

Hampster Dance is one of the earliest Internet memes. Created in 1997 by Canadian art student Deidre LaCarte as a GeoCities page, the page features rows of animated GIFs of hamsters and other rodents dancing in various ways to a sped-up sample from the song "Whistle-Stop", written and performed by Roger Miller for the 1973 Walt Disney Productions film Robin Hood. In 2005, CNET named the Hampster Dance the number-one Web fad.

## The use timeline

1. 1997-01-01

    

   A page filled with hamsters dancing, linking to other animated pages. It spawned a fictional band complete with its own CD album release.
2. 1997-01-01

    

   Wikidata Q1573974: Hampster Dance — song by Hampton the Hampster.

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