Renata Bliss Dancing

About

Renata Bliss Dance refers to a freestyle dance by fitness instructor Renata Bliss that went viral in 2015, inspiring remixes and parodies.

Origin

The clips in the viral remix video come from a program from Club Dance Class, according to a now-defunct website that was active as early as October of 2011.^[1] The website is now defunct because, as Bliss would later admit in a YouTube video (shown below), she had created a persona as a "wing-girl, personal stylist, and social stylist" and in order to speak at events, she needed a product to sell to speak, so she invented a fitness routine.

The clip saw viral success after it was posted in the summer of 2015 to YouTube. It went viral after a post by user Stephahahan uploaded a short, nine-second cut of the clip that gained over 2.5 million views (shown below).

Spread

The spread of the video was covered by COACH^[2] a week after the video was posted to YouTube. Remixes of the clip spread using different music over Vine in the following months (compilation shown below, left). On October 8th, 2016, the clip was included in a Pewdiepie video in which he talked about some of his favorite videos, which gained over 8.1 million views (shown below, right).

On October 9th, 2016, a GIF of the dance was uploaded to 9GAG on October 9th,^[3] where it gained over 20,000 likes. Reddit's /r/whitepeoplegifs^[4] on November 20th, 2017, where it gained over 23,000 upvotes.

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