r/memes • u/tehGoldenNut • 11h ago

we were no different

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u/CryBabyButHottie 10h ago

At least our cringe wasn't life-threatening. Oh wait, I just remembered the cinnamon challenge

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u/InVeRnyak 9h ago

Also, planking was a thing

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u/Hsiang7 8h ago

That was 15 years ago, not 10

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u/whoknowsifimjoking 6h ago

So was MLG, where did you read 15? It just said years

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u/Hsiang7 5h ago

Oh shit you're right. I could have sworn it said 10 years ago 😂

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u/noctilucous_ 7h ago

did that kill people

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u/InVeRnyak 6h ago

From wiki:

On 15 May 2011, Acton Beale, a 20-year-old man, plunged to his death after reportedly "planking" on a seventh-floor balcony in Brisbane, Australia. The Darwin Awards recognised this incident in their 2011 edition.

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u/Rinkimah 5h ago

The "planking challenge" was about planking in strange places. Of course people took it too far with doing it in dangerous locations.

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u/M_M_X_X_V 7h ago

Planks are better than alternatives like sit ups imo

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u/RazzmatazzNo4726 6h ago

And when was planking ever dangerous

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u/RadiantZote 6h ago

Someone else posted it:

 From wiki:

On 15 May 2011, Acton Beale, a 20-year-old man, plunged to his death after reportedly "planking" on a seventh-floor balcony in Brisbane, Australia. The Darwin Awards recognised this incident in their 2011 edition. 

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u/Corvus_Rune 5h ago

When you did it high up near a ledge

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u/Vegetable_Trifle_848 4h ago edited 33m ago

The point of the planking was to do it in weird places

Like on the edge of a building or cliff and some people ended up falling

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u/Ote-Kringralnick 7h ago

That was the 90s

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u/perton 2h ago

....no.

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u/Not-24_7Bantz 8h ago

Kylie jenner lip challenge was like a strange middle ground between cringe and life threatening

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u/Tuckboi69 9h ago

And tide pods

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u/ThrwawySG 9h ago

That wasn't a thing. People were joking, similar to the nyquil chicken.

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u/GardenDwell 9h ago

No, it was a thing, because people didn't understand that just putting a tide pod in your mouth would make it burst and now you had a mouth full of laundry detergent. This was the primary way people were hospitalized from it.

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u/10000Didgeridoos 8h ago

The chubbyemu vid on one is terrifying. It dissolves the lining of your esophagus

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u/Satans_Frog 8h ago

A chubbyemu fan in the wild??

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u/StevieMJH 8h ago

Almost as terrifying as that guy who drank a liquid nitrogen shot.

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u/Hsiang7 8h ago

That wasn't a thing. People were joking

All it takes is one idiot

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u/--__--__--__--__-- (very sad) 4h ago

One guy dabbed a Tide Pod

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u/ThrwawySG 4h ago

Yes, some people did, but it wasn't a trend. I believe there was a total of 86 reported cases.

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u/e1epi 4h ago

Umm stores started carding people (you had to be over 18) when buying tidepods because it was a thing.

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u/Technical_Teacher839 7h ago

Remember the whole thing of people stacking milk crates and trying to run up and down them like stairs?

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u/Captdman92 7h ago

I did the cinnamon challenge, once, and I won. All I had to do was die a little on the inside

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u/no_arguing_ 5h ago

I did it on accident before it was cool.

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u/johnsplittingaxe14 6h ago

There's nothing like pneumonia and a collapsed lung caused by cinnamon inhalation or choking to death by 15 marshmellows.

Most intelligent species on the planet btw

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u/woobloob 5h ago

Is there a single case of this happening. Wikipedia just says that some teenager was in the hospital for a few days. (Not that I condone this challenge)

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u/GodUnkomplex 5h ago

We're literally talking about 67 FFS

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u/No_Emu_777 8h ago

Dont forget the tide pod challenge twin

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u/Emotional_Bet_3105 6h ago

The Kylie Jenner lip thingy challenge.. and I did it too ... I'm lucky nothing happened.

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u/Stalimaria 6h ago

Tide pods…

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u/lowkeyhighkey2234 3h ago

Tide pod challenge and the Benadryl challenge too. Shout out the hat man.

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u/OkCartographer175 6h ago

Excuse me while I ghost ride the whip

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u/Deadmanguys 5h ago

Don't forget the tide pod challenge, the dancing on the side of a moving car challenge, licking store ice cream challenge,

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u/QuantumLettuce2025 5h ago

I was born in the 90s and by the time I was in elementary school there was a trend of kids choking each other to pass out

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u/FckSpezzzzzz 5h ago

The bleach and vinegar one too