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Spelling Bee star throws up X, Dez Bryant-style, shows kids will imitate what they see

If you doubt whether today's kids are highly impressionable, the stuff that went down Thursday at the Scripps National Spelling Bee should remove those doubts faster than you can say N-I-H-A-R.

That's Nihar Janga, swaggering co-champion, instant internet celebrity — and major Dez Bryant fan. Janga, 11, threw up Bryant's signature "X" gesture after a clutch make late in his showdown with Jairam Hathwar.

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— u272d DCBlueStar u272d (@DCBlueStar) May 27, 2016

This, after a night of dabbing and Running Man Challenges and trash talk and mind games by the school-age contenstants.