The Coffin Dance meme, also known as the Dancing Pallbearers, features a group of Ghanaian funeral performers who celebrate the life of the deceased through rhythmic dancing. The footage first gained international attention via a BBC report in 2017 but became a global sensation in early 2020 when it was paired with the EDM track 'Astronomia' by Tony Igy. It is typically used as a 'fail' meme, where the image or video of the dancers is presented as the inevitable conclusion to a clip of someone making a life-threatening or humiliating mistake. The meme's popularity peaked during the global pandemic as a darkly humorous way to cope with catastrophic situations, eventually becoming one of the most recognizable symbols of internet culture in the 2020s.