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Shaq's Coronavirus Quarantine Dance Party is a viral video of former professional basketball player Shaquille O'Neal DJing a dance party in a kitchen as a group of men dance around him and on countertops. The video inspired a series of remix videos in which memers replace the soundtrack so the men dance to different music.

Origin

On March 30th, 2020, Shaquille O'Neal posted the original video on Instagram. ^[1] The post received more than 5.9 million views and 1.2 million views (shown below).

Spread

The following day, Instagram^[2] user @sonny5ideup posted a variation of the video with the soundtrack replaced with the Blink-182 song "What's My Age Again?" Within one week, the post received more than 204,000 views and 27,000 likes (Twitter post below).

Shaq turnin up 💯 pic.twitter.com/16SKMTY2m5

— Sonny Side Up (@Sonny5ideUp) April 1, 2020

Over the next week, others shared variations on the remix on Twitter. For example, on April 2nd, Twitter user @WhiskeyRiff shared a variation that received more than 174,000 views, 3,100 likes and 1,100 retweets (shown below).

Several media outlets covered the video, including The New York Post,^[1] Golf Digest^[2] and more.

When you find out that quarantine is over and Taco Bell is open again.

⁦KoeWetzel</a>⁩ ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/SHAQ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">SHAQ⁩ pic.twitter.com/XL9gGOTs6Z

— Whiskey Riff (@WhiskeyRiff) April 2, 2020

Various Examples

Huge shoutout to SHAQ</a> for reppin’ Born of Osiris and being <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BOOCrew?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BOOCrew</a> <br>🎥- <a href="https://twitter.com/pr0gme?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">pr0gme pic.twitter.com/T1uT5k5WbB

— Lee Patrick Mckinney (@LeeOsiris) April 5, 2020

I didn’t know Shaq was a #Blackhawks fan! pic.twitter.com/aczuwmnCcJ

— This Day in Chicago Sports (@ChiSportsDay) April 5, 2020

Search Interest

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