The Stupidest YouTube Challenges of 2016
There were lots of challenges this year, these are the ones that should maybe stay in 2016...
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00:00 Hello and welcome to another year of stupid challenges.
00:03 You guys are so smart.
00:05 You create such funny things that go viral.
00:07 So what was flipped first, the chair or the bottle?
00:10 Chair flipping apparently started in New Zealand
00:12 with this video of two boys flipping chairs and dabbing.
00:16 I might not be able to flip, but at least I can dab.
00:18 Double dab, triple dab.
00:20 Next, the bottle flip challenge.
00:26 This surprisingly got a lot of attention this year,
00:28 even getting featured in YouTube Rewind.
00:30 I swear, I used to do this a lot in elementary school,
00:41 but I didn't get millions of views.
00:42 Where my views at?
00:44 The hands-free selfie challenge got a lot of attention.
00:47 Oh, crap.
00:48 I just broke my [BLEEP] phone.
00:51 You throw your phone up in the air
00:52 and either dab or high five yourself,
00:54 again with the dabbing.
00:55 [WHOOSH]
00:56 [BOOM]
00:58 I feel like we're going backwards.
01:00 Cameras on phones are getting better,
01:01 and we're just taking [BLEEP] pictures.
01:04 This next challenge is flawless.
01:06 All you have to do is waste tons of money on makeup
01:08 and put 100 layers of it on your body.
01:10 We can thank Nailogical and Jenna Marbles for this one.
01:13 I am officially done with this look.
01:17 And if you have no money, just opt for doing 100 layers
01:19 of clothes, and then give away those clothes to Salvation Army
01:22 and help the world.
01:23 If you have hundreds of pens lying around,
01:25 you could possibly do the pen challenge
01:27 and stick pens everywhere in your body,
01:29 in places you didn't even know you had.
01:31 Here at "What's Trending," we even gave it a try.
01:33 And here's what it looked like.
01:34 Ta-da!
01:35 Finito.
01:37 You should all start dying right now.
01:38 The banana peel challenge was a pretty funny one to watch.
01:41 People try to figure out what happens if cartoons actually
01:43 happened in real life.
01:45 Yes, people of planet Earth, banana peels are slippery.
01:48 I wonder how many people got hurt doing this.
01:50 Now, I'm not sure if this next one is a challenge or just
01:52 a really stupid thing to do.
01:53 The hottest pepper challenge is where you basically
01:55 eat the world's hottest pepper, the California Reaper pepper,
01:59 the hottest one on the Scoville scale,
02:00 10 times as spicy as a jalapeno.
02:03 Started by Lizzie Wurst, and man,
02:05 listen to this girl scream.
02:07 [SCREAMING]
02:11 It's literally like you're going through an exorcism.
02:14 I think the funniest thing about this challenge
02:15 is that the guy who's filming it, Lance Stewart,
02:17 her boyfriend, did another stupid thing
02:19 by cutting his finger while trying to be a fruit ninja.
02:22 Great minds think alike.
02:23 And finally, the duct tape challenge.
02:26 The duct tape challenge involves wrapping a person in,
02:28 you guessed it, duct tape, and seeing how long it
02:30 takes him or her to escape.
02:32 It made news in January because a kid in Oregon
02:34 fell trying to free himself, hit his head,
02:36 and suffered an aneurysm as a result.
02:38 Besides almost dying, he also got 48 stitches to his head.
02:42 And a special honorable mention goes to the Chuck E. Cheese
02:45 challenge.
02:46 [MUSIC - CHUCK E. CHEESE, "DON'T YOU KNOW"]
02:50 These three guys tried something,
02:52 but it never took off.
02:53 Millennials, we just got to stick to what we know.
02:55 Tablets and phones and sexting.
02:59 And while we do get frustrated and hate
03:00 how stupid all these things are, we do appreciate all of you
03:03 for your entertainment.
03:05 Millennials do the darndest things.
03:08 So which challenge was your favorite, and what did we miss?
03:10 For more trends like these, just go to whatstrending.com.