Clock Woah

About

Clock Woah is a TikTok user created variation on The Woah which is a dance deriving from Texas in which the dancer typically leans into a freeze on the beat by making a swift movement with their fists. In the "clock" variation created in September 2019, one TikTok user added an arm positioning mimicking the hands of a clock.

Origin

On September 13th, 2019, TikTok user @derekklawrence uploaded the first "clock woah" video and used the song "Gordon Ramsay" by HL Wave (shown below). The video gained over 484,900 likes and 68,300 shares in 17 days.

Spread

On September 15th, 2019, TikTok user and inventor of the clock woah uploaded a tutorial which accumulated over 517,300 likes and 127,700 shares in 15 days (shown below, left). That same day, TikTok user @birthcontrolfailedmymom9 garnered 1.3 million likes with her clock woah video (shown below, center). Two days later, the trend continued to grow in popularity with TikTok user @levinhotho's attempt with garnered over 749,100 likes and 37,900 shares in 13 days.

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