The Swazz

About

The Swazz is a short dance originating on TikTok in which the dancer shifts from side to side with their fists lifted up in front of themself. Although the dance was first performed to the song "No Idea" by Don Toliver in December 2019 it later was typically performed to a mashup of a SpongBob SquarePants The Krusty Krab is Unfair clip and the song "Know Yourself" by Drake.

Origin

On December 14th, 2019, TikToker @chazfisher posted a video in which he and a friend introduced The Swazz (shown below). The video gained over 830 likes in a month.

Spread

On December 30th, 2019, TikToker @coreyscherer performed the dance using a sound clip from SpongeBob SquarePants^[2] and Drake's "Know Yourself," according to StayHipp^[1] (shown below, left). The video garnered over 526,200 likes in a month. On January 3rd, TikToker @chazfisher posted the dance again while sitting with the caption, "Doing my dance the swazz until @mileycyrus does it " (shown below, center). The video accumulated over 78,800 likes in 25 days. On January 10th, TikToker @ajani.huff received over 97,000 likes in 18 days for their swazz dance video (shown below, right).

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