About

The Kala Chashma Dance challenge is a viral dance trend popularized by Norwegian dance crew "The Quick Style" in mid-2022. The trend originated from a viral video of The Quick Style performing at a traditional Indian Hindu wedding and has since inspired people to recreate its choreography. In particular, people are mimicking the dance step that involves a fake-out fall to the ground. The original video was uploaded to YouTube in June, while the dance trend was popularized by reuploads on TikTok in July going into August 2022.

Origin

On June 6th, 2022, Norwegian dance crew The Quick Style uploaded a TikTok^[1] video of them performing at a wedding, gathering over 4 million views and over 400,000 likes in two months (shown below).

The video featured the crew dancing to the Bollywood song "Kala Chashma,"^[2] which means "black glasses" or "sunglasses" (shown below, left). A video of The Quick Style crew's entire performance was uploaded to their official YouTube^[3] channel on June 19th, 2022. The video has over 53 million views and over 2 million likes as of August 2022 (shown below, right).

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The oldest known video of someone participating in the viral trend is from TikToker^[4] @tildapaulsson on July 18th, 2022. The video features three blonde women recreating the fake-out fall from The Quick Style's original choreography, with one person falling to the ground and arching their back to the beat. The video gathered over 6 million views and over 700,000 likes in three weeks (shown below, left). On July 25th, The Quick Style's official TikTok^[5] account acknowledged the dance trend inspired by them going viral, posting a video of them recreating it with the title, "Crazy seeing people doing this trend. Tag us when you do this 😎😎😎😎🌪." This video gathered over 8.2 million views and over 600,000 likes in approximately three weeks (shown below, right).

The TikTok^[6] sound most being used for this trend has approximately 276,300 videos as of August 15th, 2022.

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