March 28, 2018 is the exact day that dabbing died … on Wheel of Fortune

DENVER, CO - FEBRUARY 9: A Denver Broncos fan performs a "dab" wearing a Von Miller #58 jersey as he watches from a light pole as Broncos players and personnel take part in a victory parade after the Broncos won Super Bowl 50 on February 9, 2016 in downtown Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images)
DENVER, CO - FEBRUARY 9: A Denver Broncos fan performs a "dab" wearing a Von Miller #58 jersey as he watches from a light pole as Broncos players and personnel take part in a victory parade after the Broncos won Super Bowl 50 on February 9, 2016 in downtown Denver, Colorado. (Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images) /
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It’s not often you can pinpoint the exact moment something becomes uncool, but it might have just happened on national TV for the dab.

Dabbing has long since passed from being cool to being something your parents are more likely to make you cringe while they do it. Yet the dance move that caught fire in 2015 and rose to arguably its greatest prominence when Cam Newton did it as a touchdown celebration during the 2015 and 2016 NFL seasons remains something you’ll still see from time to time in the wild.

Parents of elementary school-aged children are no doubt nodding their heads in agreement right now.

Anyway, it takes something pretty notable to eradicate the lest vestiges of coolness from something like the dab that was pretty much everywhere at the height of its popularity, but it might have just happened tonight on Wheel of Fortune.

Take a look and decide for yourself:

Yep, we’ve gone from Migos and Cam Newton dabbing to … well, this perfectly pleasant but otherwise completely 100 percent unremarkable Wheel of Fortune contestant celebrating correctly solving a puzzle. That’s about as far a tumble down the coolness scale as it’s possible to take.

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Still, we come not just to bury the dab but to praise it as well. It’s as simple a dance move as it’s possible to do, meaning that unlike other music-related crazes, everyone could do it. Also, everyone probably has, even if only as a joke or under the influence of one too many adult beverages. Saudi Arabia is probably happy you’re gone, and maybe you were a veiled drug reference, but on the whole you were pretty innocent and, for a time, almost ubiquitous.

So R.I.P. dabbing. You had a good run, and at least you got to go out on a nationally televised game show.

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