Fantasy Challenge

Fantasy Challenge

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Fantasy Challenge is a short viral dance to Mariah Carey's 1995 song "Fantasy"[1] that includes dropping it low, a butt slap and quick arm gestures to the right and left. The dance first went viral in December 2018 on Instagram. The original post was shared again on TikTok in October 2019 and made the dance trend popular on TikTok that month.

Origin

On December 17th, 2018, Instagram user hey_its_denden posted a video of himself and his brother performing the first iteration of the "Fantasy" viral dance. The video gained over 159,000 views and 20,600 likes in 11 months (shown below).



Spread

On February 2nd, 2019, YouTuber Islander Challenge posted a compilation video of people mimicking Instagram user hey_its_denden's Fantasy dance (shown below). The video garnered over 5,900 viewers. The YouTuber commented that "This is a challenge that a lot of Polynesians in New Zealand do."



On October 23rd, 2019, hey_its_denden's TikTok account @_Oj_Juicees reposted the video and accumulated over 376,800 likes in a month. Many TikTok users began performing the dance. On November 3rd, TikTok user @kaycebrewer received over 726,900 likes and 12,400 shares in nine days for her video (shown below, left). On November 10th, Mariah Carey uploaded a fantasy challenge video to TikTok (shown below, right). The video garnered over 849,700 likes and 12,200 shares in two days.


https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6755206157809290502
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6757654516507692293

Various Examples


https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6756511303390530822
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6757359371115646213
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6757438753125453061
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6751840280250420486
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6754855313444228357
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6758174422567292165

Search Interest

External References

[1] AllMusic – Fantasy

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