A targeted search on archive.org for:
yields no direct hits for a combined video. However, related finds:
| Term | Archived Items | Notes | |------|----------------|-------| | “Harlem Shake” | ~54,000 results (mostly 2013 news clips, compilations) | Many are broken Flash-era embeds. | | “Poop” | 100,000+ (South Park clips, toilet training videos) | Some user-uploaded “YouTube poops” (YTP) from 2008–2012. | | “Steezy” | 9 results (mostly dance tutorials, none with “Grossman”) | A 2014 video titled “How NOT to Harlem Shake (ft. Steezy parody)” is unplayable—codec missing. |
No verified file with all four tags exists. The phrase appears to be a folk memory or an inside joke from a dance forum (r/Dance, r/DeepIntoYouTube) around 2014–2016. harlem shake poop steezy grossman internet archive
The juxtaposition of the upbeat, bass-heavy track with the grotesque, almost Dadaist visuals of "Harlem Shake Poop" was the perfect cocktail for virality. People shared it out of sheer confusion.
However, the internet's ecosystem is designed to sanitize. As the meme spread to the mainstream, the "poop" and the "Steezy Grossman" moniker were left behind. The format survived, but the edge was dulled. Groups of firefighters, the cast of The Today Show, and armies of Marines made their own sanitized, brand-safe versions.
Within a month, the meme was dead, having burned through the global consciousness at breakneck speed. Joji retired the Filthy Frank character, Baauer went on to a successful mainstream music career, and Steezy Grossman vanished back into the ether. A targeted search on archive
As the format proliferated, creators pushed boundaries. Derivative clips intentionally sought shock, absurdity, and gross-out humor to stand out in a saturated field. Among these fringe permutations were videos that mixed the meme’s choreography with toilet humor and bodily-substance shock value — an extreme form of attention-seeking aligned with the internet’s incentive structure for virality.
One such style—label it “poop steezy” for its juxtaposition of crude scatological imagery with affected, stylized dance (“steezy” = style + ease)—aimed to provoke both disgust and fascination. These pieces traded on taboo and the transgressive pleasure of seeing polite norms violated in a comedic framing.
In early 2013 the “Harlem Shake” meme erupted: short videos that began with one person dancing alone among oblivious others, then cut to an all-out, chaotic group dance to Baauer’s track “Harlem Shake.” The memetic template spread rapidly across YouTube and social networks, spawning thousands of playful, low-budget variations and becoming a defining short-form meme of that year. yields no direct hits for a combined video
For the brave digital archaeologist, here is how to replicate this search:
Warning: Most are unwatchable. Buffering fails. Audio is a sine wave of despair. But one file—harlem_poop_grossman_final (1).mp4—is intact. In it, Steezy Grossman (or his spectral proxy) performs a perfect gliding backslide, pauses, looks at the camera, and mouths the words: "This is for the archive." Then, the video cuts to a child’s drawing of a defecating cat. The screen fades to black.