On March 31st, 2016, the players Jared Nickens and Jaylen Brantley of the University of Maryland Terrapins posted a video to Instagram (excerpted below as a GIF) in which they perform a #RunningManChallenge. The trend began to catch on through Instagam in the first few months of the year, eventually acquiring 2,922 posts with the hashtag by April 20th. The following day, 11.oo7 posted "Part 2" of the #RunningManChallenge videos (shown in the YouTube compilation below), which received 5,300 likes. The video, originally posted January 16th, 2016 received over 6,000 likes by April 20th. The first known #RunningManChallenge was posted to Instagram by user 11.oo7, who claimed that the video was inspired by another private user, Rah2bandz. The running man dance was original popularized in the mid-80's by Janet Jackson's music video Rhythm Nation. The fad became popular during the 2016 NCAA championships, after being spread by players from the university of Maryland. The Running Man (often stylized as the #RunningManChallenge) is a dance fad in which college basketball players do a close-armed running man-style dance to the tune of the 1995 song "My Boo" by Ghost Town DJs. Basketball, terrapins, instagram, ncaa, villanova, dance, maryland, march madness, black people twitter, black, runningman, challenge About
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