Leon Dame's Runway Walk

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Leon Dame's Runway Walk refers to a video of German model Leon Dame strutting aggressively down the runway during the Paris Fashion Week show in September of 2019. The walk went viral after Twitter users commented upon its confidence, and paired footage of the walk with various captions.

Origin

On September 25th, 2019, Leon Dame walked down the runway at the Paris Fashion Week^[1] show. footage of the walk was caught by Twitter user @DIORSBITCH, who gained over 4,400 retweets and 15,000 likes (shown below).

Spread

After DIORSBITCH's video began spreading, other Twitter users began adding humorous captions to it. User @NaezrahMax posted it with the caption, "Me walking in and out the kitchen to steal a piece of chicken my mom told me not to touch until all of it is finish," gaining over 80 retweets and 540 likes (shown below, top). User @Thomaswkjr2 posted an example that gained over 30 retweets and 160 likes (shown below, bottom).

The jokes about the walk were covered by Popsugar.^[1] Other popular examples include tweets by @SlayterJ, which gained over 2,200 likes (shown below, top), and @buttrflysuga, which gained over 1,500 likes (shown below, bottom).

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