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Numa Numa is an Internet phenomenon based on a video by American vlogger Gary Brolsma made after the song "Dragostea din tei" as performed by O-Zone. Brolsma's video, entitled ''Numa Numa Song'', was released on December 6, 2004 on the website Newgrounds.com and shows Brolsma lip-synching the hit song and lively gesticulating on it. The video title is derived from the Romanian words "''nu mă nu mă''" that occur in the refrain of O-Zone's song. It was the first Numa Numa-themed video to gain widespread attention. Less than three months after the release, it had been viewed more than two million times on the debut website alone. ''Numa Numa Song'' has since spawned many parody videos, including those created for the "New Numa Contest", sponsored by Brolsma, which promised US$45,000 in prize money for submissions. His original video was named 41st in the 2006 broadcast of ''100 Greatest Funny Moments'' by Channel 4 in the UK. The video was featured on Channel 4's ''Virtually Famous'' and entered its Hall of Fame. ==History== By February 25, 2005, fewer than 3 months after Brolsma released the video on Newgrounds, it had been viewed more than two million times on that site alone.〔Feuer & George (2005)〕 Brolsma later stated in an interview, "''...I found it (din tei" ) in another (I believe it was Japanese) flash animation with cartoon cats''".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gary Brolsma & The Numa Story )〕 Others have noted Brolsma's inspiration was the Japanese flash animation ''Maiyahi'' by the Albinoblacksheep.com user "ikari", which featured soramimi wordplay (from Romanian into Japanese) and whose video featured an animated version of the popular Shift JIS art cat Monā.〔"(Maiyahi )" (original video, as Flash Program), ( 恋のマイアヒ 空耳 ) (video), "(The Maiyahi song )" #Japan on DALnet, Micha 2005 (explanation).〕 On Newgrounds, ''Numa Numa Dance'' has since been seen more than eighteen million times. From there it has been copied onto hundreds of other websites and blogs. According to a November 27, 2006 report by the BBC, based on page impression figures collated by viral marketing company The Viral Factory, ''Numa Numa Dance'' was the second-most watched viral video of all time, with 700 million views, losing out only to "''Star Wars'' kid". , Korean rapper Psy has taken the number 1 most viewed video spot with his "Gangnam Style" bumping Gary and Star Wars Kids down to positions 2 and 3, respectively. "Gangnam Style" has more than 2 billion views. Brolsma received mainstream media coverage from ABC's ''Good Morning America'', NBC's ''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno'', and VH1's ''Best Week Ever'' and the Numa Numa video was listed as number 1 on VH1s ''Top 40 Internet Superstars''. According to ''The New York Times'', however, he was an "''unwilling and embarrassed Web celebrity''".〔 He canceled media appearances but reappeared in September 2006 with a professionally produced video, ''New Numa'', featuring a song specially made for him by Variety Beats.〔(Gary Brolsma & The Numa Story )〕 This video, hosted on YouTube, marked the start of the "New Numa Contest", which promised US$45,000 in prize money and a US$25,000 award to the winner. EE have recently adapted this into their latest cinema advert which features a prisoner that had gone insane to the tune of the video. On December 5, 2014, Brolsma uploaded a video entitled "Numa Numa 10-Year Reunion" to Newgrounds, a video of him lip-syncing several songs, including "Shake It Off" by Taylor Swift, "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" by Bob Dylan, and "Firework" by Katy Perry.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/649680 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Numa Numa (video)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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