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Five things we know about Dancing Man

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He's become the man who everyone wants at their party.

The man now known as "Dancing Man" went viral when images of him, caught mid-dance, were shared on the message site 4chan. The person who shared it engaged in some body-size shaming (he's not a small man), but then Twitter users mounted a campaign in his defence and are pleading to keep him moving - all the way to Los Angeles and a star-studded party in his honour.

Here's what we've found out about Dancing Man - aka Sean from London.

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