It was a craze that once swept the nation. The Interlude Dance, created at the University of Northern Iowa, has thousands of YouTube views and hundreds of uploads, including a video of Michelle Obama dancing to the song.

If you’re one of the few people who have no idea what the Interlude Dance is, and I do mean few, let me give you a quick recap of what you’ve missed. According to the original video, the dance uses a song by a band called Attack!Attack! and consists of six basic dances everyone can do.

You start off with a “warming the hands around the fire” dance followed by hand claps to the beat of the song. Once you’ve nailed that difficult task, you move your arms up and down then wave them in a crazy manner. The madness continues with the robot and fist pump before going back to the original up-and-down arm motion.

Sounds wild, doesn’t it?

I will admit, when the Interlude Dance was first created, it was magical to watch. Even though you weren’t quite sure what you were watching, just seeing hundreds, even thousands of people all dancing in sync gave you goosebumps.

But just like the dances the Interlude consists of, it started to get old and overused — fast. Not only was the song played at nearly every UNI event, but you could find people dancing to it at Waterloo Black Hawks and Bucks games as well. Every. Single. Game.

Fast forward three years, and those thousands of people you once saw doing the Interlude have now turned into dozens. The once magical sight has turned into a grotesque celebration of dances that should have never been popular to begin with all bundled into a single song. Those goosebumps from seeing people dance weren’t because of the Interlude, they were because of the unity the dance once created.

UNI has become “that guy” who dances like a belligerent idiot starving for attention. The Interlude Dance had its time in the spotlight, but it’s time for that light to fade away. Fads come and go, and this fad has gone on long enough.

Call me a fun hater, email your disgust, tweet your anger — but please, whatever you do, just make sure you stop doing the Interlude.