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Netflix Warns People To Stop Doing The ‘Bird Box Challenge’, But Not Everyone Listens
Last year’s most obvious evidence of natural selection at work was the ‘Tide Pod Challenge,’ with the dumb, gullible and reckless voluntarily poisoning themselves for a few likes on social media. Well, we are only a couple of days into the new year and 2019’s stupidest craze has already arrived, with people walking around, driving and doing everyday things blindfolded to make ‘hilarious’ videos.
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Known as the ‘Bird Box Challenge,’ it is inspired by Netflix’s recent thriller Bird Box, starring Sandra Bullock. Her character and two children are forced to take a perilous journey while blindfolded, in order to avoid some kind of paranormal creature that compels people to commit suicide if they see it.
The movie has been a major success, breaking first-week streaming records with over 45 million views, and has inspired all kinds of memes and recreations. What began as some harmless fun, with people bumping into some furniture blindfolded, escalated quickly as people began to wander about blindly outdoors, sometimes putting themselves and others in danger.
Only in NY #BirdBox #BirdBoxChallenge @NigelDPresents pic.twitter.com/VPemHPdovu
— Tommy (@THOMAS_RE89) December 25, 2018
Lmaooo the baby!!!#birdboxmemes #BirdBox #birdboxmemes #BirdBoxChallenge pic.twitter.com/4dhhIi6Str
— Bird Box Memes (@birdboxmemes) December 27, 2018
#BirdBoxChallenge: @michaelstrahan attempts to put lipstick on @sarahaines with a blindfold on! #GMADay https://t.co/G4PdrKdY6w pic.twitter.com/h5HIWtJtXw
— Good Morning America (@GMA) January 2, 2019
Netflix has responded to the popularity of the challenge, not by encouraging people to refrain from doing it (it’s great free publicity after all), but to be careful and try not to get hurt. So there you have it. A streaming service feels the need to remind people not to put themselves in hospital because of memes. Welcome to 2019 guys.
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CatShatBrix 5 years ago
This... just utter stupidity. Can’t say it beats Tide Pod but I just don’t understand why it’s worth it.
John L 5 years ago
Anything that allows Natural Selection to weed out the polluted gene pool, could be a good thing, as long as innocent people are not caught in between. "Stupid Is, As Stupid Does", right?
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Hans 5 years ago
What exactly is the challenge here? And to simply get hurt, taking a hammer and hitting yourself is much more effective. Hm..."People, people! Follow Hans' hammer challenge (TM)! For every time you hit yourself, a kitten will be saved, and if you hit yourself hard enough, a puppy will be saved! Do it now, and do not forget to record it and put it on Youtube, so that your deeds will be preserved for eternity!"
diane a 5 years ago (edited)
Never, never do this. As a 10 year old we would play a game like "Blind Man's Bluff" on the way home from school that involved putting your coat over your head whilst the other person directed you where to go - obstacles etc. One time this girl steered me face first into a lamp post. I lost both my front teeth that day. Cant even remember her name but I still hate her
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Aaron Kara 5 years ago
There was an experiment done where scientist gave rats all the food and water they would need for years. They also had enough rats so that competition to find a suitable mate was very low. After a while, the rats, unbound from all semblance of the innate need to to find food or fight to reproduce, slowly but surely, went completely insane. Seemingly acting in frantic, unnatural and nonsensical ways...you see where I'm going with this.
Ирина Чумак 5 years ago
It wasn't about not having to find food or mates, the study was about the effects of overpopulation and was specifically designed in such a way that mice were confined in relatively small cases, especially after the population grew in geometric progression. It would be a totally different story had they been provided with larger territory.
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CatShatBrix 5 years ago
This... just utter stupidity. Can’t say it beats Tide Pod but I just don’t understand why it’s worth it.
John L 5 years ago
Anything that allows Natural Selection to weed out the polluted gene pool, could be a good thing, as long as innocent people are not caught in between. "Stupid Is, As Stupid Does", right?
Load More Replies... Hans 5 years ago
What exactly is the challenge here? And to simply get hurt, taking a hammer and hitting yourself is much more effective. Hm..."People, people! Follow Hans' hammer challenge (TM)! For every time you hit yourself, a kitten will be saved, and if you hit yourself hard enough, a puppy will be saved! Do it now, and do not forget to record it and put it on Youtube, so that your deeds will be preserved for eternity!"
diane a 5 years ago (edited)
Never, never do this. As a 10 year old we would play a game like "Blind Man's Bluff" on the way home from school that involved putting your coat over your head whilst the other person directed you where to go - obstacles etc. One time this girl steered me face first into a lamp post. I lost both my front teeth that day. Cant even remember her name but I still hate her
Load More Replies... Aaron Kara 5 years ago
There was an experiment done where scientist gave rats all the food and water they would need for years. They also had enough rats so that competition to find a suitable mate was very low. After a while, the rats, unbound from all semblance of the innate need to to find food or fight to reproduce, slowly but surely, went completely insane. Seemingly acting in frantic, unnatural and nonsensical ways...you see where I'm going with this.
Ирина Чумак 5 years ago
It wasn't about not having to find food or mates, the study was about the effects of overpopulation and was specifically designed in such a way that mice were confined in relatively small cases, especially after the population grew in geometric progression. It would be a totally different story had they been provided with larger territory.
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