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the origin of your favorite memes and trends!
Today we have a look at #mannequinchallenge.
This video is on a trend that has become very popular online in the last few weeks.
Right around the same time I started to receive numerous requests for this topic from many
of my viewers.
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As I said before the mannequin challenge is an internet trend that has become popular
over the last few weeks.
To be specific it is a social media trend that directly involves video.
The object of #mannequinchallenge is to capture a typical scenario, although sometimes exaggerated,
involving people frozen in the scene as though they are mannequins.
Hence the name.
one of the very first occurrences of the mannequin challenge was posted to Twitter on October
26th, 2016 by twitter user @pvrity__ . In the video it showed a group of Jacksonville,
Florida students from Edward H. White High School frozen in a classroom in various poses.
That last clip was actually pretty cool, she actually looked like a mannequin.
That video received numerous retweets and likes, spreading and gaining popularity in
the process.
In recent weeks the hashtag has become a viral social media trend, spreading and evolving
far beyond the original video.
The videos have began to be commonly combined with the song “Black Beatles” by hip hop
duo Rae Sremmurd.
Who even got in on the fun themselves by creating their own entry into the challenge during
one of their concerts.
That video gained over 47,000 retweets and 61,000 likes in the first 24hours! da da damn!due
to this exposure the challenge has become very popular amongst High school and college students.
but recently has spread beyond the younger people and into the mainstream, being adopted
by many professional sports teams and notable people.
Some of these are pretty damn creative if you ask me.
my personal favorite is the one that the Dallas Cowboys did.
It’s kinda obvious to why this trend has began to catch on.
It’s easy to participate in and it seems like it’s pretty damn fun.
a simple fun activity for friends to attempt together and share with everybody on their
social media accounts.
Participating in a trend and getting those likes in the process.
after all it is 2016, that’s kinda the thing to do.
But hey!
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