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Cholo Challenge Dance To Anything refers to a series of videos which add various pieces of music over a clip of a man dancing on a street in front of cars bouncing with hydraulics as part of a minor dance meme called the "Cholo Challenge." After the original clip was posted to YouTube, a Facebook page dedicated to remixes of the clip grew popular, gaining over 100,000 followers.

Origin

On September 22nd, 2018, the YouTube channel Cholo Challenge posted a video of a man dancing down a street to Funkadelic's "(Not Just) Knee Deep" while hydraulic cars bounced in the background. The clip gained over 620,000 views (shown below).

Spread

Early parodies of the clip gave it humorous captions. For example, on October 5th, the Cholo Challenge channel posted a reposted meme from Instagram account sepasanmemes giving the clip the caption, "Come over, my baby daddy got busted," gaining over 160,000 views (shown below, left). The same day, they reposted a meme by city_locs showing the man dancing in different locations (shown below, right).

On September 7th, 2019, the Facebook page "Cholo Challenge Dance To Different Songs" launched,^[1] a page dedicated to posting remixes of the clip with various songs overdubbed. The page quickly grew popular, gaining over 100,000 followers in four months. Some of the page's most popular clips include a remix featuring King Crimson's "Elephant Talk," which gained over 196,000 views (shown below, left) and another featuring Wham!'s "Last Christmas", which gained over 1.3 million views (shown below, right).

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