Numa Numa Cult

The numa numa sensation started in Nov'2004. It was originally a flash animation video created by me, Gary Brolsma and was submitted to a online website called Newgrounds.com on December 2004. Moving forward two years later to September of 2006, the original Numa Numa Dance video has hit over 13 million views on Newgrounds.com alone, not to mention the other countless number of websites that it is now hosted on. It's been featured in multiple newspapers, television, radio, ABC Good Morning America, NBC, MSNBC, CBS, and even VH1's Best Week Ever.

The phrase Numa Numa is from a refrain of "Dragostea din tei" a song written by the Moldovian pop band, O-zone. The refrain, "nu mă, nu mă iei", can be approximately translated from Romanian as "you don't, you don't take me [with you]." As mentioned above, the Numa Numa phenomenon was first popularized by Gary Brolsma's release of Numa Numa Dance onto Newgrounds.com on December 6, 2004.[2] The video shows a kid (Gary Brolsma) in headphones lipsyncing to the audio of the original O-zone track whilst moving his head, shoulders and arms and gesturing to the music in an animated, yet earnest manner. A viewer would assume that the man was sitting at his computer filming himself with a webcam, which thus provides a tightly restricted frame of action giving the video and its genre a visually distinct character.



"New Numa" or "Numa Numa 2" is the sequel to the "Numa Numa Dance". The second video was recorded and produced by Gary Voelker and Andrew Lee of Seattle-based Experience Studios.



On November 14, 2007, Gary Brolsma posted his latest video, Numa Three - Crazy loop. It showed Brolsma lip-syncing to one of Dan Bălan's latest songs, Crazy Loop.

I did enjoy the numa numa guy's first video, but his recent one's are a disappointment. But still, as long as numa numa is there to be seen, who cares about the other videos. And apart from himself getting hugely rich and popular, I have heard that the numa numa guy is sponsoring a numa numa contest to the tune of $45,000. Amazing, isn't it!