Meme Museum on Instagram: "A 2018 Meme, The Howard the Alien meme comes from a short looping animation made by 3D artist Josh Williams around 2017, originally titled "Dancing Silver Alien."' The character was never meant to be a meme; it was simply a testing animation using a shiny silver alien model performing robotic dance moves under a bright reflective light. A Year later, A Channel named deemz! Thought it would be funny to Re upload this and combined it with the song "Money Longer" by Lil U