What do The Simpsons, Australian miners, a college swim team, the Norwegian Army and LeBron James have in common? They were all caught in the unfortunate YouTube dance epidemic, The Harlem Shake. It’s bigger than Gangnam Style. It’s left Charlie Bit My Finger in the dust. 

In case you live under a rock, I’ll catch you up. The Harlem Shake known on YouTube begins with one person, dancing alone in an oblivious room to “The Harlem Shake” by Brooklyn producer Bauuer. When the bass drops, the room is suddenly full of amateur dancers, flailing in no logical manner. In the Harlem Shake, anything goes. Want to dress up like Super Mario? Do the worm? Dry-hump the air, dressed as a gorilla? Go for it. You can’t dance too badly.

The viral trend started just over a month ago, in an Australian teenager’s bedroom. It has since spawned about 4,000 video uploads each day, according to the Associated Press. Not total. 4,000 videos uploaded every single day. Right now there are about 100,000 Harlem Shake videos on YouTube, each one almost identical in their bad taste. 

There are only a few problems. First, the carefree video fad had a brush with the Federal Aviation Administration when an Ultimate Frisbee team recruited airplane passengers out of their seats mid-flight to record the video. It also got 15 Australian miners fired Monday for shooting the video in the mine. The dismissal letter cited a breach of “core values of safety, integrity and excellence.”

Secondly, I simply can’t find a reason for the Harlem fever. Bad dancing is nothing new—why does the world feel the need to upload 100,000 videos of it? Plus, the song’s opening phrase is puzzling. It begins with “Con los terroristas,” which means “With the terrorists.” It’s a tongue-in-the-cheek line, but an offensive and humorless one. I wonder if the guy in the Super Mario costume picked up on that.

But most of all, my beef with the Harlem Shake is that it was born in the streets of Harlem. That original version looks nothing like this. This Harlem Shake actually requires skill. It’s a combination of rhythmic shoulder shimmies, hip thrusts, and a large dose of personality. Unlike the YouTubers, these guys look like they know what they’re doing. I’m pretty sure that if anyone did the YouTube Harlem Shake in its hometown, they would get mugged. 

In a video titled “Harlem Reacts to ‘Harlem Shake’ Videos,” various Harlem citizens watching the YouTube versions of the dance call it “an absolute mockery,” “disrespect,” and “a violation toward Harlem and anybody that’s in Harlem.” And I can’t really blame them. 

Don’t get me wrong- I love mindless crowd dances. Doing the Macarena? Call me up. I will gladly make a fool of myself during every wedding reception line dance playlist. But I love watching talented people dance just as much, and wouldn’t dare to imitate them. Nonsensical videos like this are what YouTube was made for. But the Harlem Shake needs a new name. Let’s give talent and culture a break. Let’s give them a wide berth.

Regardless, the day of the YouTube Harlem Shake may be over. Quick, wasn’t it? But like all mediocre Internet videos, the surest way to make something uncool is to make it popular.  There’s something unexpected and sweet about watching a group of students start a spontaneous dance party in their dorm, but an entire advertising agency doing the same thing is just too, well…canned. It’s stiff, corporate, lacking the energy of the dorky original. The final stab was when the staff of The Today Show uploaded their own version. And so another YouTube legend has come and gone. And nobody will really notice.