Hot Hot Hot (meme)
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"Hot Hot Hot" is the informal title of a promotional video about Appalachian State University that became an internet phenomenon in late 2005.
In 2004 a committee for the Appalachian Family Caravan tour created a promotional video shown throughout the region by Chancellor Kenneth E. Peacock. The tour began September 27, 2004 and included areas where Appalachian State has a strong alumni base. The tour planned to make stops in Atlanta, Miami and Tampa.
Peacock described the video's role in promotion:
- It was used primarily for the [Appalachian] Caravan, taking it out with us on the road show and show that Appalachian is a great institution and it's hot in many ways, and that was part of the whole show. So in order to understand fully that video, you almost had to be at one of those Caravan events. I would ask the audience to say, 'You know why this is the case? It's because Appalachian, my friends, is …' and they would respond, 'Hot.' I think they took it off the Web site because, without it being a Caravan event, it's confusing. People don't really understand what the message is with the song. It was all done in fun, to go and energize our alumni and say here are some things that are happening on campus, holding up the highlights of faculty, programs, accomplishments of students, and say 'You know why this is possible? It's because Appalachian is hot.' It builds all around that whole theme.
The video
The two-minute-and-17-second slide show of images around campus included an original song with lyrics such as these from the chorus:
Hot hot hot,
Hot hot hot.
Appalachian is hot hot hot!
Come and let us show you what we've got.
Come and let us show you why we're hot hot hot!
