El Primo Bailando

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About

El Primo Bailando refers to a TikTok trend in which a Mexican-style animated fighter is dancing to the Brazilian song "Bara Bara Bere Bere" plays next to gameplay of Breakout on a split screen. The fighter is El Primo, a character from the mobile game Brawl Stars, and only appears in the videos when the ball of the Breakout game hits a block.

Origin

Although the first post of the meme is unkown, the trend started around February 2022 on TikTok, inspired by a trend of Mr. Incredible Becoming Uncanny videos shown on a split screen with gameplay of the mobile game Bounce and Pop. (shown below).

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7065034303477959941

On February 17th, 2022, TikToker nashepapu24 created an edit with the Brawl Stars^[2] character ‘El Primo’ dancing at the bottom of the split screen, with the Brazilian song ‘Bara bara bere berê’^[3] by Michel Teló playing. When the shuriken in the Bounce and Pop^[4] game stopped popping the ballons, the animated fighter is replaced by a video of the streamer iShowSpeed with a sad face while the song "Jugaste y Sufrí"^[5], by the Mexican group Eslabon Armado plays. The video went viral on the platform, receiving 10 million views in seven months.

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7065743148919606534

Spread

The meme widely spread on TikTok between February and March 2022, with videos reaching millions of views. For example, a February 22nd, 2022 video posted by @elasticgirlperturbadora using Breakout gameplay reached 53 million views in seven months.

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7067222122904489221

The videos were also uploaded on YouTube Shorts, such as a March 20th, 2022 post by @bernaal005 that accumulated 9 million views in six months.

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The viral memes with El Primo Bailando on TikTok also inspired people to upload 1-hour loops of the animated character dancing on YouTube (example shown below).