Dancing Vans Girl

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About

Dancing Vans Girl refers to a viral video of a woman dancing with a little girl in a green vans t-shirt. The video went viral with people praising their performance.

Origin

On October 12th, 2019, Instagram user @jenybsg posted a video of herself dancing with Instagram user @anae2mad. The post received more than 31,000 likes and 220,000 views in less than two weeks (shown below).

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Two days later, @anae2mad shared the video on her Instagram page. The post received more than 251,000 views and 58,000 likes in less than one week (shown below, left).

On October 17th, @jenybsg shared the video on YouTube. The post received more than 22,000 views in about five days (shown below, right).

The following day, Redditor ^[1] sezar4321 shared the video on the /r/MadeMeSmile subreddit. That day, it was also shared on the /r/interestingasfuck subreddit,^[2] where it received more than 9,800 points (91% upvoted) and 215 comments.

On October 19th, comedian Natasha Rothwell tweeted^[3] the video with the caption, "THIS. IS. WHAT. BEING. AN. ALLY. LOOKS. LIKE." The tweet received more than 2.3 million views, 94,000 likes and 11,000 retweets in 24 hours.

THIS. IS. WHAT. BEING. AN. ALLY. LOOKS. LIKE. pic.twitter.com/GwO76uKJ5s

— Natasha Rothwell (@natasharothwell) October 19, 2019

However, people mocked the tweet, disagreeing with Rothwell's comment. Rothwell responded,^[3] "I forgot the golden rule of social media: Instagram is for jokes and Twitter is a humorless void. That’s on me. You hate to see it."