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Elon Musk Dancing refers to a viral video of Elon Musk dancing on stage at Tesla's Giga Shanghai plant where he showed off the Chinese-made Tesla Model 3 and introduced the Model Y program in January 2020. Due to Musk's uninhibited dancing, the video has been edited to feature various songs online.

Origin

On January 7th, 2020, Elon spoke to at the Tesla's Giga Shanghai and broke out in dance onstage after flinging off his jacket (shown below).^[1]

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On January 7th, 2020, Elon Musk tweeted a video of himself dancing with added music captioning it "At Tesla Giga Shanghai NSFW!!" (shown below). The tweet gained over 284,900 likes and 35,000 retweets in two days.

On that day, many more Twitter users came forward with their videos from the Tesla event. Twitter user @vincent13031925 gained over 3,300 likes and 230 retweets for their video of Musk dancing (shown below).

The next day, Twitter user @fvckgerry edited a clip of Musk dancing by adding Grimes' song "Oblivion" (shown below). The video garnered over 29,700 likes and 5,200 retweets in a day.

On January 9th, Redditor LittleTask posted a GIF of Musk dancing to r/dankmemes captioned, "Medicine: can cause cancer, early deaths, headaches and liver failure. People in the commercial:" (shown below). The post received over 14,300 points (99% upvoted) in four hours.

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