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The Daily Dot’s digital dervish, dancingdror

The Daily Dot spent $5 to buy a video from dancingdror, who writes your message on his belly and dances. Here's the result.

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Janet Kornblum

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Posted on Jul 21, 2011   Updated on Jun 3, 2021, 3:53 am CDT

We saw him dance for others. We loved the way he shook it. We spread the word.

And then we couldn’t help ourselves.

We asked dancingdror to please, please make a video for us.

Actually, we paid him. It cost the Daily Dot $5 because dancingdror — in real life, Dror Mizrahi, 24, of Jerusalem — sells his dances on Fiverr.com, a site which asks what you’d do for five bucks. Here’s what Mizrahi did for us:

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*First Published: Jul 21, 2011, 5:28 pm CDT

Janet Kornblum

Janet Kornblum was the Daily Dot's first features editor. She works as a journalist and licensed private investigator in the Bay Area, and she has contributed reporting and photography to USA Today and CNET.

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