Goopie's Weird Dance

About

Goopie's Weird Dance refers to a viral video of TikTok user @goopie dancing to the song "Kolors" by Monte Booker. The video received viral spread online with multiple reposts, also being used as source material for edits by users on Instagram and Twitter.

Origin

On May 17th, TikTok^[1] user @goopie posted a sped-up video of himself dancing to "Kolors" by Monte Booker. During the dance, @goopie performs a number of unusual moves such as rapidly bringing his legs together and apart, with the video being sped up adding to its comedic effect. The clip (shown below) received over 16.3 million views and 2.4 million likes on TikTok in three weeks.

Spread

Following its viral spread on TikTok, the video was reposted multiple times on other platforms, including posts on Twitter,^[2] Instagram and iFunny.^[3] For example, on May 20th, Twitter user @hymenprotector reposted the clip, with the video gaining over 319,000 views, 1,000 retweets and 4,900 likes in three weeks.

Starting in late May 2020, the video gained popularity as source material for edits, particularly on Instagram. For example, prior to May 24th, Instagram^[4] user gamerbucciarati posted an edit in which the song was replaced with "Nugget in a Biscuit" . On the same day, Instagram^[5] user zetaxp posted an edit which received over 25,700 views and 6,700 likes in two weeks (shown below).

The video maintained its popularity both as a reaction and in shitpost edits in the following month, with viral memes based on it appearing on Twitter, Instagram and other online platforms.

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