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What is the Running Man Challenge and why it's conquering your social media feeds?

If you've searched your social media feeds at all the past few days, you've undoubtedly come across videos of the Running Man Challenge.

<p>Instagram screenshot of video featuring athletes doing the Running Man Challenge.</p>

If you've searched your social media feeds at all the past few days, you've undoubtedly come across videos of the Running Man Challenge.

So what is it?

The #RunningManChallenge appears to have started with a few athletes from the University of Maryland when videos started to show up online asking "Who wants to battle?"

A video posted by Jaylen Brantley (@jaybriddle_1) on

The videos show athletes doing variations of the Running Man dance as the song "My Boo" plays from the Ghost Town DJs.

Needless to say, once the videos hit the web, the internet wanted to join in on the festivities.

Here are a few of the better videos from the interwebs:

From Instagram user jnickens_ to the Cal football team, feeds were flooded with these videos.

A video posted by Jared Nickens (@jnickens_) on

Athletes from North Carolina and the University of Arizona also joined the fun.

If you make your own #RunningManChallenge video, share them on our Facebook page or on our Twitter feed using #BeOn12.

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