Meme · anime dance meme

By Deimos EMK · Published Oct 29, 2026 · Updated Oct 29, 2026 · 6 min read · AI-drafted, source-checked

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• Categoryanime dance meme
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What the meme is

The 'I'm So In Love With You' dance trend refers to a specific TikTok meme format built around the chorus of Mthu's song 'it's like i'm not even here,' which repeats the lines 'I'm so in love with you / You're so in love with him / I don't know what to do / Girl, I'm a fool now.' The visual backbone of the trend is a series of fan-made 3D animations, primarily created by TikToker @dblgiuzman, that depict Dragon Ball characters, most notably the grey-skinned, muscular antagonist Jiren, performing a distinctive, slightly stiff but rhythmic dance routine.

The humor comes from the jarring contrast: Jiren is canonically one of the most serious, power-obsessed figures in the franchise, so watching him groove to a heartbreak anthem reads as deliberate absurdity. The animations themselves are polished enough to feel 'official' but retain a fan-made charm that makes them ripe for remixing.

The meme operates on two parallel tracks. First, there are the edit videos that take @dblgiuzman's original animation clips and sync them precisely to Mthu's chorus, often adding visual effects, caption jokes, or mashups with other characters like Goku. Second, and arguably more responsible for the trend's mainstream breakout, are real-life recreations where creators film themselves mimicking Jiren's exact arm swings, hip shifts, and deadpan facial expression.

These IRL versions range from bedroom dancers nailing the choreography to public stunts, like @iloveuncrider bothering commuters on transit with the dance, that lean into cringe comedy. The format is flexible enough to support wild variants: @notmemetime programmed the animation onto a graphing calculator screen, turning a math tool into a meme player.

Across all versions, the core 'text' remains the same: a hyper-masculine anime powerhouse reduced to a lovesick fool dancing to a sad boy anthem.

In conversation, the phrase 'I'm So In Love With You dance' or 'Jiren dance' functions as a shared cultural shorthand. Someone might drop 'bro really did the Jiren dance' to describe any situation where a normally stoic person (or character) breaks into unexpected, goofy movement.

It's also used as a reaction to the song itself, hearing the chorus in a playlist or at a party can trigger an instinctive shoulder roll. The meme carries a layer of ironic affection: participants aren't mocking Dragon Ball or the song; they're celebrating the weird alchemy that happens when fandom animation, a catchy hook, and TikTok's remix culture collide.

Because the dance is simple enough to learn in thirty seconds but distinct enough to be instantly recognizable, it works as a low-barrier entry point for casual viewers and a canvas for high-effort creativity from animation-savvy users. [1]

Seen in use

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How it spread

The trend's explosive growth in October 2026 stems from a perfect storm of platform mechanics and cultural timing. Dragon Ball remains a top-tier anime IP with a massive, active online fandom that constantly generates and consumes character-driven content.

Jiren specifically occupies a sweet spot: he's visually iconic, meme-famous for his 'strength is everything' catchphrase, and had never been portrayed as 'fun', making the dance a subversion that feels earned rather than random. Mthu's track supplied an earworm chorus with lyrics that read like a Gen Z heartbreak tweet, giving the trend emotional relatability beyond the anime niche.

Crucially, @dblgiuzman's animation quality set a high baseline; the movements were smooth, loopable, and clearly choreographed, which meant every subsequent edit or recreation had a professional-looking reference to match.

TikTok's algorithm then amplified the pattern: the song became a sound trend, the dance became a challenge, and the character became a template, each reinforcing the others in a feedback loop that pushed the meme from anime TikTok onto the For You pages of users who'd never watched Dragon Ball.

The second wave of virality came from the trend's participatory elasticity. Once the core animation-to-song pairing was established, the format invited escalation rather than repetition. Real-life dancers added physical comedy and public interaction; the calculator variant proved the meme could live on absurdly constrained hardware; crossover edits slotted other characters (Goku, Vegeta, even non-Dragon Ball figures) into the same choreography.

This 'yes, and' dynamic is catnip for TikTok's duet/stitch/remix tools, every new variant becomes a platform feature, not just a user post. The trend also benefited from a lack of gatekeeping: you didn't need to know Jiren's power level or Mthu's discography to participate. You only needed to recognize the dance or the lyrics.

That accessibility, combined with the inherent humor of a 'sigma male' anime character doing a 'simp' dance, gave the meme a rare cross-demographic reach, anime stans, dance challenge participants, and irony-pilled meme accounts all adopted it simultaneously, creating a critical mass that sustained the trend through October and into November 2026.

Variants & examples

Used playfully across anime and general TikTok circles; not cringe yet but approaching saturation, deploy the dance reference with self-awareness or risk looking late.

• “My calc teacher caught me watching the Jiren calculator dance instead of graphing parabolas.”Group chat recounting a classroom distraction
• “The chorus hits and my shoulder automatically does the Jiren thing, muscle memory at this point.”Tweet about the song triggering an involuntary dance move
• “He walked in wearing a Jiren cosplay and deadass did the full routine at the Halloween party. Legend.”Discord message describing a party moment
• “POV: You're on the subway and some guy starts doing the 'I'm so in love with you' dance three feet from your face.”TikTok caption for a public stunt video
• “Even my mom asked why the grey buff alien is dancing to that sad song, the trend has officially escaped the fandom.”Reddit comment on mainstream penetration

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