About

Charizard and Dragonite Dance Remixes are a series of videos featuring the Pokémon Charizard and Dragonite dancing to various songs.

Origin

On August 7th, 2016, a Youtube user called Southern Lights^[4] uploaded a video in which Charizard and Dragonite dance to J-Pop group, Gokaru Jodo. The video, which was created by MMDSatoshi^[11] with the software MikuMikuDance,^[2] gained over 73,000 views as of August 30th, 2016.

Spread

On August 14th, 2016, the video appeared on Bilibili.com (shown below).^[1]

After that the video appeared with different music on international Pokemon fan accounts like Pokémon Brasil.^[3] Soon after, Twitter users began taking the video and applying it to different songs. Popular edits feature the dragons dancing to "Into You" by Ariana Grande (below, left), You Reposted in the Wrong Neighborhood (below, right), Smooth, ^[5] and "YMCA."^[6]

Dancing Charizard and Dragonite videos were soon compiled in the media on sites including CollegeHumor,^[7] The Verge,^[8] Slate,^[9] and Polygon.^[10]

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