1. The Diet Coke and Mentos Challenge
The Diet Coke and Mentos Challenge is nature’s indication that humanity is actively participating in accelerating its own obliteration. The effects of Mentos on Diet Coke is now an ancient experiment—surely the novelty has worn off from when it first became famous over a decade ago. Or so you’d think. The recent surfacing of the Diet Coke and Mentos challenge is a gleaming beacon of what people can descend to during periods of utter boredom. These geniuses guzzle a litre of Diet Coke with a handful of Mentos in their mouths and a camera in hand. The result, as you can see, is a human soda geyser.
[youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8r6P0HiPwU”]2. The Cinnamon Challenge
These guys clearly have a taste for adventure…or not. This one involves putting a spoonful of cinnamon in your mouth and trying to swallow it. We’re not entirely sure, but we think it should not remind us of exhaust fumes. We’d advise those who take up this challenge to leave the cinnamon in the bun.
[youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrnLYi6EAJE”]3. The Fire Challenge
This one left us more horrified than anything else. Emptying a bucket of ice-cold water over yourself is one thing, but replace that with kerosene, and you have a formula for fatality right there. The Fire Challenge involves igniting yourself and jumping into the nearest water body, while recording your attempt. It goes without saying that they’ve more often burnt out than faded away.
[youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOd7r01m_2A”]4. The Kylie Jenner Lip Challenge
While Kylie Jenner has faced a lot of attention particularly for the mysterious metamorphosis of her lips, people all over the world have tried to trade their intelligence for fuller lips like Kylie’s. Since most of them are not blessed either with Jenner’s name or fame, going under the knife is not an option. So instead, fans of bee-stung lips all around the world have taken to placing their lips in shot glasses and sucking out the air in a desperate attempt to plump up their lips. The result is the viral #KylieJennerLipChallenge, where young teenagers, some even younger than Kylie, (who’s just 17, btw) photograph their grotesquely enhanced and bruised lips and parade it as a personal achievement.
[youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9V-5UBhl2g”]5. The Condom Challenge
This one left us flabbergasted, and wondering when the internet stopped being about getting quick access to information and instead become a public platform to display how imbecilic one could be. This challenge was a moment of introspection and raised a number of questions in our minds. The most important, of course, was “WHY?”, closely followed by “How much time do you have?” and “How am I going to heal this mental scar?” We’d suggest you take a look at it yourself, because some things are best left unsaid.
Caution: If you are drinking a glass of water, we’d suggest you put it down.
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