Jiren Dance ("I'm So In Love With You" Dragon Ball Meme)

The joke of the Jiren dance is the contrast. Jiren is the stern, nearly silent warrior from Universe 11 who fights Goku in the Tournament of Power arc of Dragon Ball Super, a character known for crossed arms and few words. In the meme he is swaying his hips and rolling his shoulders to a soft, heartbroken song: "I'm so in love with you, you're so in love with him, I don't know what to do, girl, I'm a fool now."

The song is "it's like i'm not even here" by the artist Mthu. On TikTok the clips usually run over a cut of it uploaded as an "original sound" by a user named Jake, which is why many posts show lyrics on screen line by line.

The meme now has two halves. One is the animation itself: Jiren, Goku, Gohan and other Dragon Ball characters doing the dance. The other is people copying it. They film themselves doing the same sway, or make Jiren appear somewhere he shouldn't, with captions that play on a fighter losing control of his body: "Don't dance… I can't control it… NANI?!" Know Your Meme describes the trend as both exploitable and participatory.

The Jiren dance spread because it works on two audiences at once. Dragon Ball fans get a character they know as an unsmiling powerhouse doing something completely out of character, and everyone else gets a catchy, slightly ridiculous dance to a love song. The lyrics are easy to put on screen, and the song's first line doubles as the meme's name.

It also turned into something people could do, not just watch. On October 20, @adamlostagain posted himself dancing like Jiren with the caption "I'm so in love with u," and the clip passed 1.6 million plays within days. On October 24, @notmemetime made Jiren dance on the screen of a calculator, captioned "This equation... Don't solve... Don't solve... I can't control it... NANI?!", which reached 2.2 million plays in two days. Each new setting invites the next one.

By the weekend it had crossed into explainers. Lessons in Meme Culture posted "Jiren Can't Stop Dancing" on YouTube on October 25, and Know Your Meme added its entry on October 26. On Google Trends in the US, searches for "jiren dance", "jiren meme" and "im so in love with you meme" were at zero for most of the month, began climbing on October 19 and hit their highest on October 26. Google's autocomplete now suggests "jiren dance meme" and "jiren dancing song".

The animations come first. TikToker @dblgiuzman posts clips of Dragon Ball characters dancing, tagged #dblegends for the Dragon Ball Legends mobile game. On September 1, 2026, the account posted Jiren dancing with Goku, which now has about 1.4 million plays, and on September 2 a clip of Jiren dancing alone. Those first clips used a different song, Cosculluela's "Prrrum".

Later in September, people began putting the animations over Mthu's song. Know Your Meme names @skobodo_tolot's post of September 17, 2026, as one of the earliest: Gohan dancing with each lyric written over the clip, which has about 720,000 plays. More edits followed through late September and early October.

The wave that made the Jiren dance a mainstream meme started around October 19 and 20, when people started dancing it themselves on camera. Within a week the clips with the song had millions of plays, the calculator version had spread the joke beyond Dragon Ball fans, and the first explainers appeared.

1. Sep 1, 2026@dblgiuzman posts an animation of Jiren dancing with Goku, set to a different song.
2. Sep 17, 2026@skobodo_tolot pairs a Dragon Ball dance with Mthu's "it's like i'm not even here".
3. Oct 19–20, 2026People start doing the dance themselves; @adamlostagain's clip passes 1.6 million plays.
4. Oct 24, 2026@notmemetime makes Jiren dance on a calculator screen: 2.2 million plays in two days.
5. Oct 25, 2026Lessons in Meme Culture posts "Jiren Can't Stop Dancing" on YouTube.
6. Oct 26, 2026Know Your Meme adds an entry, and US searches for "jiren dance" reach their highest.

1. Use the TikTok sound with the chorus, "I'm so in love with you, you're so in love with him."
2. Do the slow hip sway and shoulder roll like Jiren, with a straight face.
3. Or put the dance somewhere unexpected and caption it "Don't dance… I can't control it… NANI?!"
4. Tag #dbl or #dragonball so fans find it.

• Know Your Meme: "I'm So In Love With You" Dragon Ball Dance (added Oct 26, 2026)
• Lessons in Meme Culture on YouTube: Jiren Can't Stop Dancing (Oct 25, 2026)
• @dblgiuzman on TikTok: Jiren and Goku dancing (Sep 1, 2026; checked Oct 26, 2026)
• @skobodo_tolot on TikTok: the dance with the song (Sep 17, 2026; checked Oct 26, 2026)
• @adamlostagain on TikTok: I'm so in love with u (Oct 20, 2026; checked Oct 26, 2026)
• @notmemetime on TikTok: the calculator version (Oct 24, 2026; checked Oct 26, 2026)
• Google Trends, United States: "jiren dance", past 30 days (read Oct 26, 2026)

Updated Oct 26, 2026

• Oct 26, 2026First published: the meaning, the song, the September origin and the October wave.