Lisa from Blackpink’s legs become popular internet meme, edited onto characters and celebrities from Spider-Man to Dolly Parton

K-pop’s most followed star online, Lisa from Blackpink wore thigh-high leather boots in a recent dance video, and her legs became an instant meme

Internet users copied and pasted them onto celebrities and film characters including James Corden, Jeff Goldblum, and Captain America

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A still from Lisa’s Mushroom Chocolate video. Her legs have become an internet meme.

Published: 2:30am, 5 May 2020Updated: 7:05am, 5 May 2020

By David Tizzard

We all run the risk of becoming “quarantine thicc”. What the South Koreans called hwak-jjina-ja: gaining weight as we stay stuck at home, moving less, drinking more, and tweeting away to anyone that will listen.

And yet we surely all dream of having legs like Lisa from K-pop girl band Blackpink. Much of the internet seemingly agrees, for Lisa’s legs became one of the internet’s hottest memes last month.

Lisa put out a dance video a fortnight ago, dancing to the 2019 track Mushroom Chocolate and filmed by Anthony King. It’s a mesmerising performance, combining graceful lines and ballet angles with the more provocative dance moves found in K-pop videos.

It also provides longer cuts than the regular K-pop video, demonstrating the skill level involved and allowing one to see that the movements are not always short bits cleverly edited together. Lisa is a dancer and performer of extraordinary talent.

But it was her thigh-high heeled boots that have sparked an internet challenge. Someone on Twitter cropped Lisa’s legs out and edited them onto a picture of Star Trek’s Spock alongside the caption “Did it Work?” The short answer is yes. Yes, it did.

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