Cybergoth Dance Remixes

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Cybergoth Dance Remixes refers to a series of videos featuring a group of cybergoth teenagers dancing to industrial music, which replaces the background track with unfitting music.

Origin

On September 7th, 2011, YouTuber gNarLu cEe uploaded footage of a group of young cybergoths dancing underneath an overpass titled "Cybergoth Dance Party" (shown below). Over the next five years, the video gained over 4.2 million views and 11,800 comments.

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On September 9th, 2011, YouTuber griffin goodwin reuploaded the video with the song "Cuban Pete" from the 1994 comedy film The Mask playing in the background (shown below). On September 14th, 2012, Reddit bodmon submitted the video to /r/cringe.^[3]

On June 19th, 2014, Viner babyd0ll uploaded a clip from the video with the 1996 hip hop song "Scarred" by Luke playing in the background (shown below, left). On June 24th, Viner Brisk God uploaded the same clip with the 1979 soft rock song "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" playing in the background (shown below, right).

On July 7th, UpRoxx^[4] published an article about the remixes titled "'Goths Dance to Anything' is The Best Thing Happening On Vine Right Now." On September 3rd, YouTuber Idk Dontcare posted a clip of the dancers edited with the Mexican dance song "El Sonidito" by Hechizeros Band (shown below).

On June 18th, 2015, YouTuber Nolan Arriaga posted a Bill Nye the Science Guy remix of the video (shown below, left). On July 10th, 2015, YouTuber Elva Esteban uploaded a compilation of a cybergoth dance Vine videos (shown below, right).

On December 6th, 2022, TikTok user @madcow posted a video in which it the location of the original dance was shown from Google Earth. The video was recorded in Düsseldorf, Germany. The street is named Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring, 40545 in proximity of Oberkasseler Brücke (Bridge). The video went viral, garnering over 6,600,000 views and 1,400,000 likes in 1 month (shown, below).^[5]