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Sophina and her UCLA gymastics routine go viral

/ STAFF COLUMNIST

So how is it, this business of becoming a viral sensation out of nowhere?

“It feels amazing,” said Sophina De Jesus, the UCLA gymnast out of Temecula who pretty much blew up YouTube – and Facebook, for that matter – when the video of her floor exercise last Saturday was posted.

It wasn’t just any floor exercise. De Jesus, a senior, used the opportunity to stamp it with her own style, personality and hip-hop sensibility during a Pac-12 meet with Utah.

How to describe it, for those who aren’t fluent in the “whip,” the “nae nae,” the “quan” and the “dab?