The Renegade Dance (Renegade henceforth) first appeared on the social media platform Instagram in September 2019 and became popular over the next two months on TikTok, according to “Know Your Meme,” a website that “documents Internet phenomena” (Know Your Meme, 2020). The Renegade, in short, is a viral dance to the song “Lottery” by K Camp (Renegade, 2020). This dance originated on Sept. 25, 2019 when Instagram user Jalaiah Harmon first recorded a video of the choreography with her friend, Kaliyah Davis, on a social media app called Funimate. Funimate, as reported by Lorenz (2020), is another “short-form social video app” such as Dubsmash, Likee, and Triller, “to document choreography to songs they love.” According to Lorenz (2020), most of the dancers using apps such as those identify as Dubsmashers. Later this paper will examine the role apps such as Funimate plays in the journey of some viral dance videos. The original Renegade is born (Harmon is on the left) View this...