J-Hope "Chicken Noodle Soup" Dance Challenge

About

j-hope "Chicken Noodle Soup" Dance Challenge refers to a series of videos of people attempting to imitate the dance from the song "Chicken Noodle Soup" by Korean rapper j-hope of BTS.

Origin

On September 27th, 2019, rapper J-hope of BTS released the song "Chicken Noodle Soup" featuring Becky G. The song is an interpolation of the 2006 song "Chicken Noodle Soup" by Webstar and Young B. The j-hope song gained over 8.9 million views within the first 24 hours of release (shown below).

Spread

Shortly after the release of the video, j-hope posted a video of himself doing the dance from the video to the official BTS TikTok account with the hashtag "#CNSchallenge," challenging his fans to imitate the dance (shown below).

After the post, fans of j-hope began to attempt the dance. Twitter user @dhxminique posted a video of herself doing the dance, gaining over 17,000 retweets and 45,000 likes (shown below, top). User BTSXLAMI did the same, gaining over 11,000 retweets and 26,000 likes (shown below, bottom). The spread of the videos was covered by CNN^[1] and Buzzfeed.^[2]

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