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What Is Wrong With The Modern Day Human?
Why the Tide Pod Challenge, Planking Challenge, and Others, Were the Hip Thing to Do
In the mid-2010s, viral social media challenges blew up all over the internet from the planking challenge, cinnamon challenge, ice bucket challenge, tide-pod challenge, and more. Some of these challenges were more dangerous and deadly than others.
You may be thinking “This sounds like a North American media sort of problem”, and even though the United States DID start the trends, they began trending all over the world.
In this story, I’ll be answering the burning question; Why all these dumb a** challenges?
For those who don’t know what on earth I’m talking about, I’ll provide a summary of the challenges I’ll be discussing.
The Planking Challenge
In this challenge, individuals will do a planking position on top of various structures. It can vary from using chairs, to cliffs (pictured above). As you can imagine this can be extremely dangerous. Especially because balancing your body on top of anything requires some sort of skill. But anyone and their mama was doing it!
