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Hit the Quan

A song that existed to start a hashtag, and did: the #HitTheQuanChallenge put a very large number of people on camera doing the same drop-and-swing. It peaked at number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100. The record's entry for the challenge as a distribution method.

Born
Peak
Died
Cause of death
The challenge ran its course
First sighting
iLoveMemphis, 2015; the #HitTheQuanChallenge
Life & death · 2014–2027
2014
2016
2018
2020
2022
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2026
PEAK 2015
BORN · 2015
DIED · 2017
NOW · 2026

Testimony

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Obituary @livejournal_larry · Poster 3 Apr 2023

Died in 2017, having done precisely what it was built to do. Charting at fifteen for a song that is functionally a set of instructions is not a failure; it is the ceiling.

Sighting @dotcom_debris · Coroner 11 Jan 2023

Logged at a wedding reception in 2016: the DJ played it, six people knew it exactly, forty attempted it, and one uncle went down and had to be helped up.

Definition @lowbattery_lou · Digger 7 Aug 2020

By 2015 the hashtag was doing the work the video used to do. You did not share the song; you filmed yourself failing at it and tagged the song, which counted as the same thing.

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