Renegade Dance

About

Renegade Dance refers to a viral TikTok dance to the song "Lottery" by K Camp. The dance, which was originally posted to Instagram in September 2019, became popular on TikTok over the next two months. The dance is known for being particularly complicated and includes over 15 steps like The Woah and The Dab.

Origin

On September 25th, 2019, Instagram user _.xoxlaii posted a video of herself dancing to the song "Lottery"^[2] and claimed to have come up with the dance. The post garnered over 3,960 likes in three months.

Spread

On October 5th, 2019, @global.jones adopted the dance and brought it to TikTok with a video that gained over 4,300 likes in three months (shown below, left). The dance rose to popularity after Charli D'Amelio performed the dance on October 20th (shown below, right).^[1] The video accumulated over 1.4 million likes in two months.

On November 17th, TikToker @bigshwangnick posted a tutorial of the dance which received over 579,800 likes in a month (shown below, left). On November 22nd, TikTok user and creator of the dance @_.xoxlaii uploaded a video in which she talks about not being credited (shown below, right). The video gained over 579,800 likes in a month.

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