Life & CultureNewsThe ‘coffin dance’ pallbearers embrace their role as coronavirus mascots‘Remember, stay at home or dance with us’ShareLink copied ✔️May 10, 2020Life & CultureNewsTextThom Waite If you’ve been on social media any time in the last couple of months, you’ve seen the “coffin dance” meme: dancing pallbearers serving as the punchline for an array of classic internet fails, from stunts gone wrong to people saying something ill-advised to their mum. The implication? Those people are now dead. Predictably – and in a pretty dark turn of events – that meme has now become inextricably linked to the coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide. The self-proclaimed “number one dancing pallbearer in the world” who features in the meme, Benjamin Aidoo, isn’t complaining though. In fact, the Ghanaian pallbearers seem to be fully embracing the association, and using it to spread awareness about the virus. This week, the pallbearers posted a video thanking doctors around the world and giving them a round of applause. “Now remember,” adds Aidoo. “Stay at home, or dance with us.” (Cue the soundtrack to the meme: Tony Igy’s 2010 EDM track, “Astronomia”.) To be honest, the mascot for a global pandemic couldn’t get much more wholesome. Watch their PSA below. From NANA OTAFRIJA to all the doctors in the world 🌍 Thank you 👏🏻 Mention 👇🏻 all the doctors out there with your country flag. #COVIDー19#CoffinMeme#benjaminaidoo#nanaotafrija#CoffinDance#Doctorspic.twitter.com/OVrv5Ib8pz— Benjamin Aidoo (@nanaotafrija) May 5, 2020Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREWhat can extinct, 40,000-year-old Neanderthals teach us about being human?Inside the UK’s accelerating crackdown on student protestsTrail shoe to fashion trailblazer: the rise of Salomon’s ACS PROHow is AI changing sex work? Where have all the vegans gone?Could ‘Bricking’ my phone make me feel something?Love is not embarrassing ‘We’re trapped in hell’: Tea Hačić-Vlahović on her darkly comic new novelChris Kraus selects: What to do, read and watch this monthWe asked young Americans how their job search is goingHannah Botterman and Georgia Evans are championing queerness in rugbyScientists are now making computers out of human brains