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Dame Tu Cosita

You might remember it as the alien dance, green alien dance

This spread through many posts rather than one canonical upload.

2018·The platform era·skill

A 1997 Panamanian song and a green alien that would not stop dancing.

At a glanceThe facts

Remembered as
the alien dance
Spread in
2018
Format
Phenomenon
Era
The platform era
Performed by
El Chombo, from Panama, with Cutty Ranks
Original title
Introduccion B (El Cosita Mix), on a 1997 album
Made by
The animation is by ArtNoux
Origin
No single original
Available
Not held by ViralWorld

What this wasThe story

El Chombo's track paired with an animated alien from a 2010 video, revived on musical.ly and TikTok in 2018 into one of the first genuinely global short-video dances.

Why it matteredWhat changed

A track recorded in 1997 was released as a single twenty-one years later with a dancing green alien, and its video has been watched five billion times.

TimelineIn order

  1. Made

    The track is recorded.1 What else happened on 31 March

  2. Posted

    It is released as a single, and the animated video is uploaded.1

  3. Later

    The video has passed five billion views.1

The version you rememberNot the same thing

The version people rememberThe 2018 video

An animated alien dancing to a single released that April.1

The originalA 1997 album track

Recorded twenty-one years earlier under a different title.1

Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later

Where it came fromWhat we know

This spread through many posts rather than one identifiable original. No copy is held here — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is what this page can tell you.

Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this. It spread through many posts rather than from one identifiable original.

Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.

SourcesWhat was read

  1. Wikipedia — Dame Tu Cosita

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