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on the hoofA goat, planning its next assault on the Top 40 (Eye Ubiquitous/Press Association Images)
YELLING GOATS IN pop videos. It’s now a thing. And there’s nothing you can do about it.
So how did this state of affairs come about?
Let us take you back to 2009. Way back then, this video of a goat yelling like a man went viral:
YouTube/simsdelux1
All was quiet for a while, except that there were a few more videos of goats yelling like people. (They seem to make a habit of it.)
Then a year or so later, BAM! Oprah and the yelling goat:
YouTube/arjen92
Again, there was quiet. But momentum was quietly building behind the yelling goats. Until a couple of weeks ago, when a supercut of ALL the yelling goats together went viral:
YouTube/RSVLTS
And here we reach the tipping point. Somehow, somewhere, someone thought of putting a yelling goat into a Taylor Swift video, resulting in this work of bizarre genius:
YouTube/Christopher DrifterSX
The ‘yelling goats in pop videos’ meme was born. Three days later, it’s reaching critical mass.
We have Jay-Z and Kanye West feat. yelling goats (insert Hova/Hoofa joke here):
YouTube/Jason Osborne
Miley Cyrus feat. yelling goats:
YouTube/GoatsDub
Justin Bieber feat. yelling goats:
YouTube/JakeBoysUK
Taio Cruz feat. yelling goats:
YouTube/BestClips247
Where can we go from here? Only time will tell. Long live yelling goats.
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