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Published 16:44 26 Aug 2020 GMT
Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's 'WAP' has taken the world by storm, sparking debates about female pleasure and, of course, prompting many emulations of the dance featured in the music video.
However, while attempting the moves from the hit song might be a bit of fun for most people, one girl has now been hospitalized after attempting the dance.
Watch the girl's journey from 'WAP' to A&E:
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News of the girl's accident was first broken on her TikTok account before it was posted to Instagram by Cardi B herself with the warning: "Please guys be safe while doing the WAP WAP WAP".
The original footage was posted by a girl who went by the name of lib_bbbbbbb on TikTok and she captioned it: "Never doing the WAP dance again."
In the footage, the girl can be seen kicking her legs out in the air as she attempts the splits before falling down in pain. The TikTok then transitions to footage of her on the ground and then in a hospital stretcher before having brace attached to her knee and an IV drip in her arm.
"Popped her knee out doing a TikTok dance can't make this up," an onlooker wrote in a Snapchat, which the original TikTok user posted in the video.
For understandable reasons, the video has gone viral, and Yahoo! News reports that it has been viewed over 3.7 million times, and the vast majority of reactions on Cardi B's Instagram poked fun at the situation.
Girls wrote: "Went from WAP to WELP real quick."
Meanwhile, Chris Crocker joked: "I don't even want to know what this dance would do to my man macaroni."
This accident comes after Russell Brand was slammed for criticizing 'WAP'.
In a video entitled "WAP: Feminist Masterpiece or Porn?" the comedian turned actor questioned whether women "achieve equality by aspiring to and replicating the values that have been established by males."
Watch Brand make his controversial comments below:
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He said that, in his opinion, music videos created by women are "an emulation of a template that already exists and was established by males."
He then asked: "Is it equality if the template has already been established by a formal dominator? The answer is no."
"I wouldn’t be so reductive and simplistic to say that women celebrating their bodies using an aesthetic that's conventionally been associated with the male gaze means it's impossible that these tools could be used as a vehicle for liberation," Russell continued.
"But I am saying that, in a sense, it's still the same metric - it's still the same aesthetic, it’s still the same values, it's still the same ideals. It's still ultimately a sort of capitalist objectification and commodification of, in this case, the female."
However, it wasn't long before people began to slam the 45-year-old's comments, claiming that there was absolutely no need for him to "mansplain" feminism.
