update 8/26/2021 2:01 PM
What happens when an unstoppable force of stupidity meets a very movable mountain?
It was only a matter of time before the internet's two most injury-causing trends combined... and here it is: The Milk Crate Challenge Gender Reveal!
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— C P R (@SirjohnKyle) August 25, 2021 @SirjohnKyle
While risking death to announce a birth might seem like an odd choice, party goers certainly seemed to get a laugh out of it.
Looks like it's going to be a boy... congratulations to the happy couple!
update 8/26/2021 7:12 AM
TikTok is putting it's foot down on the Milk Crate Challenge.
As reports on increasingly serious injuries arise, the social media platform that made it famous has disabled the ability to search for the term, and has also begun removing some of the videos.
"TikTok prohibits content that promotes or glorifies dangerous acts, and we remove videos and redirect searches to our Community Guidelines to discourage such content," it said in a statement to NBC News. "We encourage everyone to exercise caution in their behavior whether online or off."
Because no one quite knows what form the crumbling pyramid will take as failers fall on to it, it is almost impossible to brace for impact — and several doctors across the country are warning against even trying.
"It's perhaps even worse than falling from a ladder," Shawn Anthony, an orthopedic surgeon at Mount Sinai hospital in New York, told the Washington Post. "It's very difficult to brace yourself from the falls I've seen in these videos. They're putting their joints at an even higher risk for injury."
Snoop Dogg will be gutted.
original story 8/23/2021 9:51 AM
The latest stupid TikTok challenge has arrived... and Snoop Dogg is a fan.
The Milk Crate Challenge dares brave participants to walk up and over a stack of the plastic containers, which might sound simple... until you see it in practice.
The Doggfather spent the whole weekend marveling at the silly stunt, and his Instagram is now awash with tottering, tumbling carnage:
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Age, it seems, isn't even a restriction:
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Before the challenge was even hours old, people were taking it to new heights... literally:
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Or this valiant pair trying it two at a time, looking, as one witness described it "like the top of a wedding cake", right before a very painful divorce:
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View StoryAnd as if it wasn't already difficult enough, some had to deal with some pretty cruel bystanders:
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There was some occasional success; Snoop was particularly impressed with this guy, who rolled a blunt at the summit before making his triumphant descent:
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Or this dude, who not only managed to carry a heavy lopsided bag of books to the top, he also pulled one out and read it while he bathed in glory at the top:
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Spare a thought for this guy, though, who successfully summited, but fell as he was counting his chickens on the way down.
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While bystanders — and indeed Snoop Dogg — found the challenge hilarious, a serious injury or worse is likely only a matter of time.
The Milk Crate Challenge follows in a wake of equally perilous ones, such as the "skull-breaker challenge", in which two people sweep an unwitting third person's legs from beneath them mid jump, or the "outlet challenge" which dared people to touch a coin against the exposed prongs of a semi-inserted plug.
Last year one 15-year-old died in Oklahoma after reportedly partaking in the "Benadryl Challenge", which dared participants to chug enough of the medicine to hallucinate. In April of this year, a 12-year-old boy in Colorado died after reportedly trying the "Blackout Challenge", choking himself to death with a shoelace.
As Snoop himself put it:
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