Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26644104-20150712052701

I hate internet fads. Well, specifically I hate the “challenge” ones. I couldn’t believe people actually did the Kylie Jenner challenge. The people that got swollen, purple lips deserved it for being so stupid. I think people are actually becoming more stupid. The latest challenge is #dontjudgechallenge. First of all it doesn't make any sense. Someone pretends to be ugly only to reveal that with some grooming and make up they can make themselves look good. It should be the opposite. They should take all of the make up off and show thier true self. It frustrates me because when I go on my various social media accounts, all I see are videos of people doing the #dontjudgechallenge. I'm so glad that these fads don't last long because otherwise I would have gone crazy by now.

Yesterday I got an email from one of my co-workers witha  link to a video called #Don'tScreamChallenge. The video starts off with a guy that looks about 17 holding a needle close to the camera and he says, "Ok let's see if I can stick this needle through my ear without screaming." The camera then zoomed in on his ear and I could see the neddle piercing his skin and a bead of blood started coming out. I winced because he was pushing hard but the needle still hadn't come out the other side of his ear. Finally it went through and the camera zoomed out a little to show the guys face. He managed to smile and give a thumbs up before the video stopped. I couldn't believe what I saw. I started searching for more videos but I didn't find anything. I was releived that people weren't dumb enough to do a challenge like that.

I was completely wrong though because a couple of days later they started talking about the #Don'tScreamChallenge on the news. One man went to the hospital for apparently using an exacto knife to cut along the lines of his palm. He accidentally cut into a vien and lost alot of blood. They wouldn't show the video due to the distubing nature but I went online to see it. I wish I hadn't because I can't get the image of his squirting blood out of my head. Police were urging people not to try the #Don'tScreamChallenge but I wanted to see more. This was like my own personal revenge against all the stupid people that blindly follow any new fad that comes along. Maybe they would even ban people from posting challenge videos forever.

I saw one girl who had 2 of her friends hold her legs and lower her off the edge of her roof. She panicked and started screaming and one of her friends almost let go of her leg. There was another girl who stuck her hand in a boiling pot of water for 3 seconds. I thought it was fake because she didn't scream but then her hand started swelling up and turning beet red. The video quickly cut off. One man had a razor and stretched his head up towards the ceiling. He started to shave his neck as fast as he could for 30 seconds. There were cuts all up and down his neck and he was bleeding but he didnt scream. He was really proud of that.


 * 1) Don'tScreamChallenge was all anyone was talking about. Parents were urged to talk to thier kids about it because a 13 year old boy died. He thought he could withstand the pain of being cut across the stomach. Well the knife his friends used must have been really sharp because his intestines started oozing out of the cut. He passed out and his friends started screaming and the camera fell to the floor. They weren't very good friends to have posted his death online. Three more people died before the fad started waning. Most of the videos have been banned. I wish I had seen more of them before they were taken down.   