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WHAT AN ONLINE ‘CHALLENGE’ IS
A challenge is a repeatable social-media format—often a dance, gesture, phrase or action—that other users can imitate and upload.
MEME & BUZZ
Why is everything called a ‘challenge’ online?
Short repeatable dances, actions and formats make challenge-style posts easy to imitate and share.
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WHY DANCE CHALLENGES SPREAD SO WELL
Short choreography tied to a memorable part of a song is easy for artists, creators and fans to reproduce, helping clips travel across platforms.
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HOW TO RECOGNIZE THE FORMAT
Look for repeated choreography, a shared audio clip or hashtag and many users making their own version. The exact trend can rise and disappear very quickly.