What happens in the video
You stand facing the phone, wrists crossed low in front of you as if holding reins, and from the first beat you bounce from foot to foot, the horse trot. A few seconds in, one empty hand starts circling an invisible lasso over your head while the other stays at your belly, and the lasso and the bounce go on to the last beat. The camera never moves and you’re head to toe the whole time.
Where it comes from
The dance is from PSY’s 2012 hit Gangnam Style. Now it’s back as a one-photo AI trend: people post themselves doing the horse dance on a rooftop at sunset, and the music video’s elevator scene is the other place everyone wants to dance it.
Why people post it
Everyone knows the moves, and almost nobody will do them on camera. The AI version gets you the full horse dance, on the beat, without the embarrassment of filming it, and it’s a reunion with a song you haven’t danced to since 2012.