Turns out Jimmy Kimmel is behind one of the web’s biggest twerking fails

Jimmy Kimmel Twerking

Jimmy Kimmel Twerking

The media loves twerking right now, even more so since Miley Cyrus started doing it. More than twerking and Miley Cyrus though, it loves twerking fails.

Heck, the web loves twerking fails too. How else could you explain a video purporting to show a young woman falling while twerking and setting herself on fire getting over nine-million views on YouTube.

As it turns out, the video was a fake — set up by US talk show host Jimmy Kimmel and starring a stunt woman called Daphne Avalon. Welcome to the web, where popularity is more important than truth.

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