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It’s Friday, So Let’s All Watch A Beautiful Vine Of Spelling Bee Champions Dabbing

They dab because they were born to dab.

by Sinead Stubbins  27 May 2016

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The Scripps National Spelling Bee is an event that’s been televised live in America for over twenty years. This may seem like a strange concept to us in Australia (not me, I used to watch The Great Australian Spelling Bee like the lives of all my loved ones depended on it) but Americans eat this shit up with a spoon. It helps that the young contestants are simultaneously very nerdy, yet supremely confident in their own intellects.

I mean, these kids have really been waiting for this moment their whole lives. Feast your eyes upon the next generation of world leaders!

One of the best things about the Spelling Bee is that it’s shown on ESPN, meaning that these kids are truly being recognised as the high-powered athletes that they are. Sometimes, this status and fame can go to their heads a little. And that’s why, in the grand tradition of NBA stars and other professional athletes, when shit starts to go their way, these kids can’t help but to dab.

Isn’t that glorious? Did you even know that you needed to see 12-year-old kids dab to an A$AP Ferg song (note: we don’t need to see politicians dab, only children)? Does it almost make you sad, because you’ll never see anything quite as good again? Did they all agree to dab beforehand, or did the dab spread like wildfire once one kid got buck wild? Was everyone like: “Goddamn, did you see what Callum just did? Man, that shit was lit, I’m gonna try it out if I spell ‘nagelfluh’ right”? I no longer fear for the future of this planet.