The YMCA dance, considered a gay anthem before it was co-opted by MAGA, appears to have found a new life with Iranians, in America and across the globe. As an account wrote: “Iranian American’s all across the country are hitting the Trump dance.” This led Melissa Wong to reiterate: “Has anyone else noticed that the ‘Iranian women celebrating’ videos are all women that are dressed like h*****kers.”
The tweet, like Dylan Thomas’s epochal words, did not go quietly into the night. It raged. Roughly 8,500 quote-tweets and more than 13,000 replies later, a meme dance had mutated into a referendum on authenticity, interventionism and the female body.
