Easter Egg: Make YouTube 'Do The Harlem Shake'

If you’re not sick of death of the Harlem Shake yet, here’s a bit of fun news that will make your day. Over the past few days, people searching for Harlem Shake videos on YouTube have been stumbling across a fun little Easter Egg—when you search YouTube for ‘do the harlem shake’, the video site will get its Harlem Shake on, in the same fashion that when you search Google for ‘do a barrel roll’ the search engine responds in kind.

If you’re not sick of death of the Harlem Shake yet, here’s a bit of fun news that will make your day.  Over the past few days, people searching for Harlem Shake videos on YouTube have been stumbling across a fun little Easter Egg—when you search YouTube for ‘do the harlem shake’, the video site will get its Harlem Shake on, in the same fashion that when you search Google for ‘do a barrel roll’ the search engine responds in kind.

A search in YouTube for ‘do the harlem shake’ will initiate a wacky sequence in which the YouTube logo dances for fifteen seconds, followed by all of the Harlem Shake search results going crazy, as you can see in the screenshot below.

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