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Did This Woman Break Her Neck Twerking?

A clip showing a dancer's dangerous-looking twerk moves reportedly captured her breaking her neck.

Published Dec. 12, 2018

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Claim:
A video shows a woman breaking her neck while twerking.

In December 2018, a short clip of a woman dancing was widely spread on social media, along with the claim that she had accidentally broken her neck while twerking.

This video may be inappropriate for some viewers:

https://youtu.be/P2kYCZ1V2J8

This video was cut short so that viewers couldn't discern that the woman stood up shortly after she supposedly "broke her neck," completely unharmed.

The original video was taken during a $25,000 twerking challenge held by Yung Miami of the City Girls. The woman in the video, Jamaican dancer DHQ Headtop, ended up winning the contest.

Here's a longer video from the twerking competition, which documents that DHQ Headtop didn't actually break her neck:

https://youtu.be/vrMJO2MJ99k

DHQ Headtop told the Jamaica Star:

"It feels really good to put Jamaica on the map is such a major way. Most people keep saying shaking your ass, headtop, split, nah get you nowhere. You have a few people who lick out on the way we dance in dancehall. But look at it now. It got me somewhere, in an international video. And I won 25K, for shaking my ass and doing the crazy stuff I do."

Sources

Small, Kimberley.   "Dancers' Paradise: DHQ Headtop Wins Global Twerk Challenge."     Jamaica Star.   6 December 2018.

Dan Evon is a former writer for Snopes.