- Is this a thing? What is this?
- These are the most lit people on Earth. There's no comparison.
♪ (industrial music) ♪
- What are they doing in Lebanon?
- What... am... I... watching?
- 'Ey. Oh, the Arab dances. These are so lit!
♪ (Arab folk music) ♪
- Oh. Whoa.
- (astonished) What? What?
- This is rad.
- Okay. I don't know how to feel about that.
- What was that?
That was so cool.
He walked up a tree. I can't even do a cartwheel.
- "Palestine."
♪ (Arab folk music) ♪
- Is this a thing? What is this?
- Oh, I thought it was just dancing, but it's that specific.
This is just a thing.
Awesome. Where's my partner? I need to do it.
- This is like the Middle Eastern version of, like, partying?
I love this.
- Yo, these are the most lit people on Earth.
There's no comparison.
- This is really cool. Lebanon, Palestine, what's next?
- Is this like a new challenge or something?
Oh God, what's the name of it?
- "Colombia"?
♪ (Arab folk music) ♪ - "The Dabke Challenge."
I've never heard of that.
- So this is a new challenge or something?
- How do people do that?
- I know the dabke is they do a big circle and stuff.
I've seen this go down. I've seen this go down live.
The dabke is, like, big everywhere.
Like, we have Arabic music playing at the wedding,
and you already know what's gonna go down.
- It just kinda reiterates how random trends can be.
Like, what is that? You just hear music from a country
and climb up a wall?
- Canada, eh? Uh-oh.
All right. What are they gonna do here?
- Oh, so this is global.
- And he got the stick for the gyro.
And he got the stick for the gyro to cut it.
This guy is like next-level sick.
- Damn, I need friends like that.
- I didn't know about this.
First time I see it, I think it's pretty cool.
- Ah, México.
♪ (Arab folk music) ♪
- Oh, they're outside. They're coming in.
That's the way to make an entrance.
- Okay, so we got some girls in the mix finally.
- Oh wow, that's a lot of people.
- I want it to be like a centipede,
and they all climb up there.
- Okay, that's hype. That's hype. She's trying.
- It's like a really weird trust exercise.
- The dab and everything, it's just about that one person.
But this, like, you cannot do it alone.
- "France"?
Ha. Oh no. This is gonna be bad. I can tell.
♪ (Arab folk music) ♪
- Okay, it looks like alcohol involved with this one.
Maybe not the best thing to do on alcohol.
(partygoers cheer) - Wow. They're struggling over here.
My dude's struggling over here.
- Look at that. You don't need to be good at dancing.
All you need is a friend to hold you up.
(partygoers cheer)
- That's hilarious, man. That's really funny.
- I'm too old for these. I don't get them.
- It's the weirdest dance.
It's like the most non-dancy dance move
I've ever seen in my life.
- Oh, "the Philippines."
(incredulously) No.
And a [bleep] palm tree.
- I like the ones that are using trees. That seems creative.
- They don't even need music or a wall. Screw it, we got trees.
- That's sick. That's cool.
- It's kinda like planking.
Like, really random and weird. But it just catches on.
- I feel like it's kind of bringing the world together.
It's not just like a U.S. dance trend that's like...
"Juju on That Beat."
It's like, "Okay, we're kinda getting
the whole world in on this."
- "Australia"?
- Okay. I can already feel it.
♪ (Arab folk music) ♪
- So effortless.
- That guys just makes it look so easy.
♪ (man singing) ♪
♪ (Arab folk music) ♪ - Okay.
Uh. Get it.
- How did I not know this was a thing?
Like, everyone around the world is doing this? I had no idea.
- Okay, now we got the ladies.
- Oh, we got the girls. Oh, gotta be care--
Don't do that in a skirt. What are you doing?
(laughter in video) - Oh.
Wow, I'm surprised nobody fell.
I can't wait to get out of here and try that myself.
- I didn't know about it.
It looks like so much [bleep] fun.
- If all of these people in all of these countries are doing it,
I'm clearly not paying attention to things in the world.
- Everyone thinks the Arabs are the most modest--
they don't do anything.
Everyone, I think, confuses culture with religion.
And Arabs are the most turnt of all.
- (FBE) So all the videos you just watched
are part of a new dance trend called "the Dabke Challenge"...
- I don't know what word that is, but I like it.
- (FBE) ...which is a traditional Levantine folk dance
to celebrate festivities such as weddings. - Exactly.
A big part of the culture is like a circular dance.
And part of it, too, is when guys start combining and joining.
You start seeing them do the whole climbing thing and going crazy
and everyone is clapping. A lot of it's being in unison.
As you saw in the video how everyone was supporting each other
as one person goes up, the dances are like that.
And it's a different level.
- (FBE) So what about this dance do you think made someone think,
"I'm gonna do this folk dance and then start climbing up a wall"?
- (scoffs) Why wouldn't you? It's like, I don't know.
If you're drunk, it's like,
"Man, I wish I could just [bleep] walk on the wall
like Spider-Man."
- Maybe they were really drunk.
And they were just like, "You know, that wall looks pretty good.
I think I can climb it."
- Maybe that party was just getting boring
and they were just like, "[Bleep] it. We're doing the dance.
But I'm doing it my way, on that wall. Let's go, team."
- When you're lit, you think of, "What do I do?"
Okay, you can jump. You can drop. Why not climb a wall?
No one's done that.
- Such a big part of dancing in a group situation is showing off.
Because when you're with so many people
and you're all trying to do your own thing,
you're just kind of trying to one-up each other a little bit
and be like, "Yeah, but are you dancing on the wall?"
And it gets progressively crazier.
And one day, they're gonna be on the ceiling.
- (FBE) Well, since the challenge started,
multiple countries have begun getting involved,
with videos coming from countries like Australia, Iraq,
Colombia, Lebanon, Finland, the Philippines, Syria, France,
and more. - I think...
I think it's what the world needs right now.
- It is kind of like the United Nations of Dance,
where it's bringing everyone together.
- It's kinda cool that so many different people
are getting involved in the same thing.
It's a weird thing to want to get involved in.
But hey, who am I to judge?
- It shows how similar we are in so many ways.
But, like, a simple name of a country or a line on a border
makes us think we're different.
But really, when you play music, man, everyone starts moving.
Everyone has that natural sway of their head.
Their shoulders start rolling.
- It's important for our kids and us as global citizens
to see other people doing fun and crazy and amazing things.
Whether it's, you know, culturally interesting
or it's fascinating food or it's a ceremony,
that's part of becoming globally aware
and appreciative of other cultures.
(clang) - (FBE) Truth!
So there are a lot of dance challenges done online all the time.
How big do you think this particular one could get?
- I mean...
it's just always one person on the end on the wall.
Like, how do you make it bigger and better each time?
- The biggest thing about challenges is
being able to add something new onto it honestly.
So if it just stays at this point, then it'll probably die out.
- This one could get pretty big, because you see adults doing it.
You saw women doing it. You see kids doing it.
It's something that everybody can sort of attempt.
- I want it to explode, because I think it's so much fun.
There's a danger factor involved.
And just think of all the fail videos
that could come out of this.
- This one could get really big.
And it's the kinda thing that you do with music,
and you do it with a group of friends.
So I see it very likely that people are gonna be at parties.
Like, let's [bleep] go.
- (FBE) Finally, at the next party you go to,
do you think you'll try and get the Dabke Challenge going?
- Uh, no. I'm like the last person
to try and do something like that.
- I don't know if I would climb up the wall,
but I would be in the supportive line.
I'm so uncoordinated.
- I think I'm gonna try to get it going
as soon as the camera turns off.
- Yeah. I don't need a party to get this started.
Like, I am just gonna do this at home.
- If I'm with my friends, for sure.
My friends love to dance. They love to get crazy.
They love to walk on walls. You know, it's normal.
- 100% I'm trying to do the [bleep] dabke. Is that a question?
I want the whole party dabke-ing. I want everyone on the walls.
That's the rules of this party,
is we need to be on the walls or the roof.
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- Bye, guys. Thanks for watching.
- Hey, guys. Ethan here from FBE.
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