Mary Meeker

11 Most Unusual Internet Trends

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• published: 29 Sep 2016
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11 of the worst and most popular trends that were being done on the internet like the cinnamon challenge and even gallon smashing! 6. The Kylie Jenner Lip Challenge The famous reality star made major headlines last year in April when she debuted her new fuller-looking lips. The media was quick to attack her with rumors of going under the knife but Kylie denied that she had any plastic surgery done, however, she would later go on record saying that she did get lip fillers in order to plump her lips in order to combat her insecurities about said lips. The internet took hold of this and twisted it into something slightly hilarious, though also potentially dangerous. What did you expect? It’s the internet. People started trying to DIY their own lips to look like Kylie’s by putting their lips in a small glass container and sucking in to create a vacuum seal. The results ended up being nothing more than extremely puffy and even some severely bruised lips due to the bursting of blood vessels. 5. The Charlie Charlie Challenge In May of 2015, the internet was taken over by a challenge that seemed to appear out of nowhere overnight. The Charlie Charlie Challenge was originally on the internet in 2008, however, it only became popular in the English-speaking world last year as the game managed to cross the language barrier. Dozens of people began to play believing that they were summoning the spirit of a Mexican demon named Charlie by using two pencils and a piece of paper with the words yes and no. One of the most famous attempts at playing this game was by none other than Youtube’s own Miranda Sings where her video now has over 19 million views. 4. The Cinnamon Challenge Back in 2012, the cinnamon challenge became all the rage after it had taken the internet by storm. Perhaps one of the most memorable videos to come out of this challenge was none other than Glozell Green’s. Now, normally the cinnamon challenge is done with just a regular sized spoon but not Glozell. In true Glozell fashion, she went bigger and bolder by using a soup ladle and around 10 times the actual dosage of cinnamon. Cut to Glozell coughing up clouds of cinnamon and her gaining more than 49 ½ million views. For those of you who don’t know, cinnamon actually comes from tree bark. 3. The World’s Hottest Bath Lately, it seems that a lot of people are jumping on the fad of filling up their bathtubs with odd things. This video titled “Bathing in 1,250 Bottles of Hot Sauce” was uploaded to Youtube last month on August 3, by a youtuber from the UK named Cemre Candar. In the video, you can see Candar filling up a bathtub with hot sauce by the bucketloads and at the end he adds in handfuls of red hot chili peppers because why not? He then plunges right in and manages to stay in a little over a minute but not before fully submerging himself in what can only be described as liquid magma. The video has gained over 5 million views and not to worry, all the hot sauce used in the video was about to expire. 2. Makeup Magic A youtube makeup artist named Nikkie, who goes by the channel name NikkieTutorials, put out a video last year on May 10 titled “The Power of Makeup!”. Since then, the video has gained over 32 million views worldwide and shows just how powerful makeup really is. Nikkie explains that people don’t believe she’s the same girl in her videos when she isn’t wearing makeup so she decided to make this video to show them it is her and that quote “makeup is fun and there are no rules to makeup”. She only glams up half of her face in order to show the full effect makeup has on the wearer. 1.100 Layers of Everything Jenna Marbles is one of the queens of Youtube and has one of the most viewed channels with almost 16.5 million subscribers, so it's no surprise that her video titled “Ultimate 100 Coats of Things Video” would become a hit. It did. Marbles proceeds to outdo all the other 100 layer videos by doing 100 coats of spray tan on her arm, 100 coats of nail polish on three of her fingers, 100 coats of foundation, 100 coats of hairspray, 100 coats of liquid lipstick, and 100 layers of fake eyelashes with 50 pairs on each eye. The entire process took her a staggering 7 ½ hours to complete and since it’s debut on July 21, it’s managed to gain almost 10 million views. Thankfully, Jenna promised not to do anything like this again, even if it was incredibly hilarious.