10 Dumbest Things That Became Trends

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5 – Cinnamon Challenge,

  • Cinnamon is a tasty baking addition with many health benefits, but did you know that it can also kill you? That’s right: ingesting raw cinnamon can potentially cause respiratory problems and even fatal lung damage.
  • Choking in front of an online audience doesn’t seem like something that would make for a good trend, but thousands of people did this under the guise of participating in ‘the Cinnamon Challenge’. The challenge involved eating a tablespoon of cinnamon at once. It pretty much made anyone who did it gasp for air and cough up clouds of cinnamon dust. Many people ended up in hospital because of this.
  • The craze has wound down now, but it shouldn’t have been a thing in the first place. Baking delicious treats would make a better trend.

4 – Duck Face,

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  • This one isn’t dangerous like some of the other trends, but it’s still really annoying. Duck facing is when a person – usually a young woman – blows an exaggerated kiss to the camera when they’re taking a selfie.
  • When pressed together, the person’s lips look like a duck’s bill. It’s a harmless phenomenon, but pouting instead of smiling is a great way to ruin a nice photo.
  • Plus duck facing is like the secret handshake of modern narcissists.

3 – Planking,

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  • For awhile there planking was a certified phenomenon. People from all over the world shared pictures of themselves laying like planks of woods on just about any surface you can think of.
  • The idea was to shock and entertain people by planking in strange and unlikely locations. The whole thing took off because virtually anyone could do it, and because it gave people a way to exercise their creativity.
  • Although planking was relatively harmless, there were of course people who took it too far. Many risked their lives by planking in unsafe locations, like on ledges or balconies. The trend was met with a lot of fierce criticism, but plankers refused to take this, err, lying down…

2 – Sex Bracelets,

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  • In the 2000s, horny schoolkids wore different coloured bracelets to advertise what sex acts they were comfortable performing.
  • In the game, which was called Snap, kids tried to break other kids’ bracelets to earn sexual favours. Different coloured bracelets corresponded to different sex acts. So, for instance, if you’d finished your lunch early and felt like a blowjob you’d have to seek out someone wearing a purple bracelet before the bell rang.
  • The whole thing was like this secret code operating right under parents’ and teachers’ noses. Kind of like Snapchat.

1 – Fire Challenge,

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  • Is there no limit to the stupid things people are willing to do for internet celebrity? The Fire Challenge takes the already very stupid principle behind the Salt and Ice Challenge and turns it up to eleven.
  • In this sick internet craze, participants douse themselves in alcohol or gasoline and literally set themselves on fire. Why? The same reason anyone does stupid things these days: to impress a few strangers on the internet. Obviously hundreds of people ended up with serious life-altering burns, and a fifteen-year-old actually died.
  • Really, this is just natural selection at its finest. What’s next? The fucking Russian Roulette Challenge? Come on, human race. Get it together!

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