About
#Okaymovement is a hastag associated with a series of Vine remix videos featuring a clip of a grinning man man saying “okay” at a Rwandan national park.
Origin
On December 29th, 2014, Viner Lilianna Hogan posted a clip from her vacation at a national park in Rwanda in which she takes a panorama video and says “Hi” to a Rwandan man who replies “Okay” (shown below).
Spread
On February 22nd, 2015, YouTuber TheVinetopia uploaded a compilation of notable #Okaymovement Vines (shown below).
On February 25th, the @OkayMovement[2] Twitter feed was launched. On March 5th, the Best Celebrations Instagram feed posted a video of a football player performing a front flip while scoring a touchdown featuring a song playing in the background using a sample of the “okay” audio clip (shown below).
A video posted by Best Celebrations (@bestcelebrations) on Mar 5, 2015 at 4:18pm PST
On March 17th, the pop culture blog Fusion published an interview with Hogan about the Vine meme.
