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Godzilla Dance is a viral video of a rendering of the film character Godzilla from the 2014 film Godzilla dancing in front of a pink background. The video went viral on YouTube in July 2015.

Origin

On July 4th, 2015, YouTuber Balenaproductions published the video on YouTube. The post received more than 3 million views in less than five years (shown below).

Precursor

In the 1965 film Invasion of the Astro Monster, the character Godzilla does something of a victory dance. On March 11th, 2006, a clip of the dance was uploaded to YouTube by YouTuber cesardae. The post received more than 300,000 views

Spread

Following the spread of the video, others made variations of the dance. For examples, on October 1st, YouTuber Axeals posted 10 hours of the Godzilla dance. The post received more than 1.3 million views in less than five years (shown below, left).

On April 22nd, 2017, YouTuber Crash mkw posted "10 Hours of Godzilla Dance 4K (Find TK Edition)." While the original version of the video has since been deleted, this repost received more than 14,000 views in less than three years (shown below, right).

On August 15th, 2019, Balenaproductions published "The Godzilla Dance 2" on YouTube. Within six months, the video received more than 140,000 views (shown below).

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