Nerdy White Boy Dancing To Nasty

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About

Nerdy White Boy Dancing To Nasty is a viral video featuring a nerdy-looking white boy wearing glasses dancing and shaking his hips or doing the "wine" with a Black girl. The video is often edited to include different songs, but largely went viral in 2024 due to edits with Tinashe's track "Nasty." The man in the video is TikToker @nate_di_winer.

Origin

On February 22nd, 2023, TikToker^[1] @nate_di_winer posted a video showing him doing the "wine," a Carribean dance move involving shaking one's hips. Nate can also be seen performing synchronized moves with his dance partner. The video gathered over 2 million plays and 180,000 likes in a year (seen below).

Spread

On April 24th, 2024, the Instagram^[2] page @notratchetopera posted a video with a different song edited into it, gathering over 82,000 likes in two weeks (seen below).

On May 4th, 2024, X^[3] user @india_regal posted a version of the video with Kendrick Lamar's 2024 diss track "Not Like Us" against Drake, gathering over 87,000 likes in a week (seen below).

Also on May 4th, X^[4] user @meltborne posted a version of the video with Tinashe's song "Nasty" edited into it, gathering over 46,000 likes in a week (seen below).

On May 9th, 2024, R&B singer Tinashe^[5] posted a video editing herself into the aforementioned meme, gathering over 400,000 plays and 96,000 likes on TikTok in a day (seen below).