About

Nose Twerking is a video fad featuring people drawing a female behind on their nose and making it move with their finger as if it was twerking. It soon became a viral sensation in the first half of 2016, leading to many people following suit on various social sites such as Vine and YouTube.

Origin

On May 12th, 2016, Filipina Facebook user Meg Mallari Perez uploaded a short video of herself with her nose drawn to look like a woman's behind and making it appear as if it was twerking to Rihanna's 2016 hit song Work using her finger^[4] (YouTube upload from her account shown below).

The video quickly spread in popularity, accumulating to over 710,000 views in the first five months of its upload.

Precursor

On June 10th, 2014, Twitter user ‏@DannyKrazeWbu posted a close-up photograph of Christopher Poole, a.k.a Moot with the comment "This guys nose looks like a girl twerking"^[1] (shown below, left). Several months later, in September 2014, the full photograph with the same reference to his nose looking like a woman twerking was uploaded to Imgur, leading to the creation of a GIF animation^[2] (shown below, right).

Spread

On May 13th, Perez' video was shared to the official Philippines Rihanna page on Facebook. There, it gained more than 32 million views in its first five months.^[3] The video sparked enough imitators that in a week, the trend was picked up by The Daily Mail,^[8] Buzzfeed,^[5] Mashable,^[6] Huffington Post,^[7] and more.

Various Examples

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