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Everyone’s doing it, so why not Jackson Olson? The popular infielder for the viral Savannah Bananas baseball team is beloved for his fun, silly TikTok videos and now he’s hopping on a trend that is tailor-made for his antics. In a TikTok posted over the weekend, Olson and Party Animals rival Dalton Ponce got their wiggles out by joining in on the Taylor Swift-spawned “Opalite” dance challenge.

In the 30-second clip, Olson and Ponce nail the choreo from Swift’s throwback video for the pop charmer from her The Life of a Showgirl album, perfectly re-creating the jazzy dance moves seen in the song’s official video, which Swift wrote and directed, and co-stars in with The Paper actor Domhnall Gleeson.

The ballers open by doing a side-to-side bend, with Olson smiling as he looks over his shoulder at Ponce and the two men then jumping to face each other and high five as Swift sings about “dancing through the lightning strikes.” They grab hands and push and pull their arms on the field before a smash cut takes them to a ballroom, where they skip forward while holding hands, with Olson making a big show of jumping down off a single step.

“This will be shown in history classes in 30 years,” reads the caption to the video.

The two men continue with their energetic routine as the camera cuts to some fellow Bananas and Animals teammates who don’t seem to be feeling it. As the pair point and dance around each other under a disco ball the scores come in from the judges and, just as in the Swift original, they are… not good. All zeroes, including from Bananas head coach/manager Tyler Gillum.

So far, Swift has released three versions of the video, starting with the original and then, last week, two extended cuts with previously unseen footage and behind-the-scenes Easter eggs. Since then, the fizzy dance challenge has exploded on TikTok, with tons of fans re-creating the clip’s silly dance moves in their kitchens, parking garages, living rooms, Times Square and hospital corridors.

Following the release of the star-studded “Opalite” video, Swift landed in the No. 1 spot on the U.K. Singles Chart dated Feb. 13, giving the singer her sixth U.K. career chart-topper.

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