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Infographic: How To Twerk

Twerking? WTF is it? Jk, I know full well, but I prefer to pretend that I don’t. It’s better this way. Besides, I’m more of a booty clapper myself. Stick to what you know!

But maybe you’d like to learn to twerk. Back in 2013, the New York Post published an infographic breaking the dance down into four supposedly easy steps. Because apparently what this particular dance floor needed was a diagram.

How to Twerk: The Four-Step Infographic

Four Steps, Questionable Dance-Floor Credentials

A numbered guide makes the whole thing sound reassuringly manageable. Read the instructions, follow along, become the person everybody watches at the party. Although, to be fair, being watched and being good are two very different outcomes.

I don’t know. I feel like it’s lacking that—how do you say? Je ne sais quoi booty. Some things lose a little something when you turn them into homework.

And I stand by one personal rule: the only time you should be sticking out your tongue and licking your lips like there’s a hot fudge sundae sitting in front of you is when there’s an actual hot fudge sundae sitting in front of you. That’s a tutorial I can get behind. Step one: find a spoon.