Savage Challenge

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About

Savage Challenge is a TikTok dance created in March 2020 to the song "Savage"^[2] by American rapper Megan Thee Stallion. The dance almost immediately became popular with many celebrities performing the dance on TikTok and Instagram.

Origin

On March 10th, 2020, TikToker @keke.janajah uploaded a video of a new dance she created to the song "Savage" (shown below). The video gained over 221,600 likes in 14 days.

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6802722722389576965

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On March 16th, 2020, Megan Thee Stallion performed the dance and posted a video to Instagram (shown below). The video garnered over 1.1 million likes in a week.

The next day, TikToker @addisonre posted a video of herself doing the dance which received over 7.2 million likes in a week (shown below, left). On March 19th, TikToker @lolofrager uploaded a video of their father performing the dance (shown below, right). The video garnered over 3.5 million likes in five days.

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6805247731762793734

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6805752257632603397

On March 23rd, Todrick Hall posted a video of himself performing the dance to Instagram and used the hashtag #SavageChallenge (shown below). The video accumulated over 55,100 likes in a day. Stay Hipp^[1] published an article on the dance challenge.