#splitsontrees

July 19, 2013 3:57 PM

#splitsontrees (SLYT)
posted by petsounds (16 comments total)

Feeling old now.
posted by Samuel Farrow at 4:25 PM on July 19, 2013 [3 favorites]

you should replace that "annoying" tag with "fabulous!"
posted by cubby at 4:28 PM on July 19, 2013 [4 favorites]

I was going to say that of course it had to end up devolving into twerking at some point. But then I stopped to wonder if it would be devolving. Doing splits on trees - is that further along than twerking? What would a taxonomy of dance show? Taking into account theories like punctuated equilibrium, did splits on trees come about now after an extended period of stable twerking? Because it is entirely possible that twerking just experienced more popularity before doing splits on trees even though doing splits on trees was first. Hmm. Perhaps the greater revelation is that the common ancestor of both dances must have flourished and spread in previous generations where the common belief was that we liked big butts and could not lie. Somewhere, Charles Darwin has one leg up, one leg up.
posted by cashman at 4:39 PM on July 19, 2013 [4 favorites]

I feel you.
posted by DaddyNewt at 4:47 PM on July 19, 2013

#spitsonsplitsontrees
posted by mannequito at 4:47 PM on July 19, 2013

oh my aching limbs
posted by Teakettle at 4:56 PM on July 19, 2013

That's really really stupid. I like it.
posted by fredludd at 4:59 PM on July 19, 2013 [4 favorites]

Dang! I was just going to post this! I love it!

"we don't do cactuses"
posted by brundlefly at 5:10 PM on July 19, 2013

Splits on trees is so yesterday. Planking with both dogs barkin' is the new splits on trees.
posted by carsonb at 5:47 PM on July 19, 2013

How long until we hit Peak Whimsy?
posted by jquinby at 5:49 PM on July 19, 2013

1) that was not what I was expecting...
2) I thought it was really stupid
3) I watched the whole thing, its sorta cute & catchy...
4) there are some very flexible young people in there!
posted by supermedusa at 5:59 PM on July 19, 2013

It is stupid. Stupid like a fox!

It is so stupid it emerges from the other side into a sort of glorious commitment to one dumb thing.
posted by GenjiandProust at 6:35 PM on July 19, 2013

I'll just leave this here.
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:29 PM on July 19, 2013 [2 favorites]

Needs a Double Dutch Bus sample
posted by Ad hominem at 9:13 PM on July 19, 2013

Man, I was totally going to post this a few days ago after the Disney Princes Boy Band post (video produced by the same guy), but I was like, "Naw, I am too ashamed to admit that I love #splitsontrees." I clearly need to get over myself.
posted by muddgirl at 9:50 PM on July 19, 2013

This is my first encounter with #splitsontrees, from the same guy.
posted by msbutah at 9:10 AM on July 22, 2013