Jerusalema Dance Challenge
You might remember it as Fenómenos do Semba Jerusalema
This spread through many posts rather than one canonical upload.
2020·Short-form and streams·skill
A global dance phenomenon with a specific Angolan originating video.
At a glanceThe facts
- Remembered as
- Fenómenos do Semba Jerusalema
- Spread in
- 2020
- Format
- Challenge
- Made by
- Attributed to a group of friends in Angola
- The song
- Jerusalema, by Master KG
- Origin
- No single original
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
What this wasThe story
A challenge classified under dance, described as skill.
Why it matteredWhat changed
A dance filmed by a group of friends in Angola was copied by airport staff in Berlin, police forces challenging each other across borders, and nuns.
TimelineIn order
- Mainstream
A report describes nuns and priests doing the dance.1 What else happened on 26 July
- Later
The song’s video reaches 100 million views.1
- Later
It is reported that the song’s label has begun asking organisations for payment for videos of the dance.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.
What this was built on, each one a record of its own.
- Taken from JerusalemaPhenomenon · 2020
The challenge is a dance to this song, copied from a video a group of friends in Angola posted of themselves dancing to it.
SourcesWhat was read
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