JENNIE’s 2025 hit “like JENNIE” is back on TikTok — this time as an AI template that puts the user at the head of about 30 backup dancers in a white studio, starring in their own pop video.
The dance challenge itself is from spring 2025, when the song was released. The AI version is new: AI video apps began selling the template in late October 2026, with ads running from 2 November 2026. The format is the fantasy every dance challenge promises and almost never delivers — you, leading a full troupe, in a studio, in sync.
Billions of views, and a brand-new AI version
The hashtag numbers are large and they need care. MakeViral, read on 3 November 2026, reported #likejennie at 276,498 TikTok videos and 8 billion views, and #likejenniedance at 5,653 videos and 121.2 million views. The AI-specific hashtag, #likejennieai, had 0 videos on 3 November 2026 — the AI version was still that early. The original music video passed 100 million YouTube views by 9 May 2025 and stood at 302 million by 3 November 2026.
JumpOnTheTrend’s 7 November page gives a much smaller trend estimate, about 51,000 views, for its own “Like JENNIE Dance” card — a different metric, its cross-platform estimate, not the hashtag total. The two figures should not be mixed, and this draft keeps them apart.
A challenge that refuses to end
The “like JENNIE” challenge has now run in two waves: the human dance challenge of spring 2025, and the AI template of November 2026. The first wave made the song a hit. The second wave lets anyone star in the video — no choreography required, just a photo and a template.
Whether the AI version catches the original’s numbers is an open question. At zero videos on 3 November and a template on sale from 2 November, it is the earliest of early trends. But the song has already proved it can travel — 8 billion views on the hashtag says so — and the AI version is betting that the next wave will be bigger than the first.
