The Coffin Dance meme grew from footage of dancing pallbearers in Ghana, which spread worldwide in 2020 paired with the electronic track Astronomia. Fail videos ending with the pallbearers carrying a coffin became a shorthand for a disastrous outcome, and the format quickly spread across TikTok, YouTube and Instagram. Slowed and reverb edits followed as creators remixed the same anthem into a moodier, more cinematic sound, keeping the joke recognisable while giving it a sadder, dreamlike tone for dramatic or ironic edits.