Mbappe Dancing Dance Battle, also called Small Mbappe Dancing or Mbappe and Neymar Dance Battle, refers to a low-resolution clip of a frail-looking Kylian Mbappe lookalike shuffling awkwardly to the Brazilian funk track 'Tubarão Te Amo' by DJ LK da Escócia, Tchakabum, and MC Ryan SP4. Starting in late 2022, TikTok creators paired the clip with similarly grainy footage of other footballers, staging mock dance battles that piled up tens of millions of plays5.

The format's whole appeal is the jankiness. The lookalike barely resembles Mbappe, the footage is compressed to mush, and the choreography is a few stiff hip shakes on loop1. Set against polished locker-room clips of Neymar and Messi, the mismatch played for laughs across the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, where the real Mbappe was dragging France into the semi-finals and eventually the final6.

Creators typically split the screen or hard-cut between the shaky Mbappe lookalike and stock footage of another footballer dancing, with 'Tubarão Te Amo' running under both clips as the audio bed2. The joke lands from the visual gap between a polished pro like Neymar and the low-quality lookalike, so the format often includes Ronaldo, Messi, or Haaland stand-ins on the opposing side5.