In early 2020, the song gained major popularity after being used in viral videos on video-sharing app TikTok, thanks to a dance craze known as the "Renegade" challenge, created by 14 year-old choreographer, Jalaiah Harmon. Harmon said she came up with the dance in "5 to 10 minutes" before rushing off to showcase it at her dance class. She debuted the dance on video-messaging app Dubsmash in September 2019. It was however co-opted by popular TikTok user Charli D'Amelio who posted her dance on TikTok, and subsequently received credit for it. This generated controversy, with "The New York Times" running an article criticizing the lack of credit due to Harmon. "Paper magazine" also later picked this up. Speaking to "The New York Times", Harmon said "I think I could have gotten money for it, promos for it, I could have gotten famous off it, get noticed", but because she wasn't credited for originating the dance, Harmon said, none of that occurred at the time. Shortly after the "NY Times" article was published, Harmon uploaded a video to Instagram performing the dance alongside D'Amelio and another fellow TikTok user Addison Easterling. A friend of K Camp's knew Harmon's mom and got the two in contact with each other. Harmon and her friend Kaliyah Davis later joined Camp in a studio on Valentine's Day where they filmed a new video for the dance. Camp would later give recognition to Harmon for originating the dance. On February 16, 2020, she performed the dance at the 2020 NBA All-Star Game. On February 20, 2020, Harmon performed the routine on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", where DeGeneres presented Harmon with a jacket that read "the original Renegade dancer" on the back, with her name on the front and gifted her $5,000. The success of the song has also been attributed to Harmon's dance.