According to Know Your Meme, the first TikTok user to upload the routine was @gregdahl7 in March 2020. As of April 2020, the challenge's hashtag had been viewed over 105 million times.

Early uses of the track as a meme in the #shawty tag on TikTok date back to at least late April 2020, although there are instances of the song popping up in TikToks prior to that.

Have you heard this sultry song with the high pitch vocal? It comes from a Tamar Braxton song, but that's not her singing in the viral clip... For more information, visit: https://knowyourmeme.com ...

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Baby Nut did become a major meme, but a large percentage of the organic Nut memes appeared to express a distaste for the legume. — Benjamin Goggin —Peanut Jr. (@MrPeanut) February 3, 2020 ...

Twitter users immediately did what they had to do, turning the footage into a meme. See some of the first Shakira memes from Super Bowl 2020 below.

But the song will always be Igumnov’s, and he is humbled by the truly sweeping global reach a meme can bring in just a matter of weeks online. “I’m songwriter so I make music to order,” he ...