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Jiggling Ball of Rice refers to a viral video of a Japanese Twitter user making a rice cake, repeatedly slapping it with a spoon as it wiggles around a machine. The clip grew popular on Twitter as users joked that the ball looked cute and it was being abused.

Origin

On December 27th, 2019, Twitter^[1] user @shouheikawasaki posted several videos of him creating rice balls in a machine, including one clip where he slaps the dough with a spoon. That clip gained over 26,000 retweets and 94,000 likes (shown below).

Spread

The clip began spreading through English speaking Twitter thanks in part to a tweet by @boys4yuta^[2] who captioned the video, "oh.. to be a ball of dough running in little circles," gaining over 16,000 retweets and 66,000 likes (shown below, left). Twitter user @deardiarheha^[3] replied by joking as though they were a "dough expert," gaining over 19,000 retweets and 76,000 likes (shown below, right).

Other Twitter users compared the dough to the Pokémon Snom. Twitter user @durianchop^[5] made the comparison, gaining over 60 retweets and 290 likes (shown below, left). Twitter user @cirtuslucy^[4] also made the comparison, gaining over 280 likes (shown below, right).

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