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13 YouTube Challenges That, In Hindsight, Were Probably A Terrible Idea

Why on earth would you snort a condom or eat a ghost pepper, huh?
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Thursday, September 29, 2016 - 14:20

The internet is a curious place. On one hand, we have funny tweets and silly pictures - great stuff. On the other, we have internet trolls and countless terrible pranks and challenges.

Oh yeah, speaking of challenges - there's been plenty of those in last couple years. And now that we think about it, most of them, in hindsight, were probably a terrible idea...

13 Online Challenges That Were Quite Dangerous

  • The Condom Challenge - We get it, condoms stretch. But adding the water and dropping it on your face basically means creating a £2.99 homemade suffocation machine. Oh, and some people actually got herpes on their face from doing this foolishness, so…
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  • And… that other Condom Challenge - WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU SNORT A BLOODY CONDOM MATE?! What if you just inhaled it and it stayed in your lungs, huh?
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  • The Chubby Bunny Challenge - Filling your mouth with marshmallows and saying “chubby bunny” is an easy way to choke to death. Happy drooling, kids.
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  • The Cinnamon Challenge - The thing with powder is, ladies and gentlemen, that it sticks to anything that is even remotely wet. Like your mouth and oesophagus. So well done on not paying attention in biology and chemistry.
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  • The Kylie Jenner Challenge - We’ll spare you detailed pictures of people’s lips splitting open because of this. Sure, some of us don’t have luscious lips, but this terrible contraption is certainly not a way to get them.
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  • The Salt and Ice Challenge - People were basically giving themselves frostbite. Why? Historians are still debating.
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  • The Ghost Pepper Challenge - It will make you have the shits, it will make you choke, and it can blind you if you’re not careful enough. And you thought Nando’s was spicy...
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  • The Ice Cold Water Challenge - Not to be mistaken with the ASL Challenge (that one actually saved lives). The first rule of swimming club is - always ease your way in to a body of water. Otherwise - hypothermia!
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  • The Saltine Challenge - Similar in consequences to the Cinnamon Challenge, only this time you’re creating the powder yourself by chomping on stack of super dry crackers. You only have yourself to blame.
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  • The Charlie Charlie Challenge - Not dangerous as such, but God knows what these kids would get up to afterwards. Ouija board? A little mean spirits session? Does anyone have a number to a good exorcist?
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  • The Wasabi Challenge - See the Ghost Pepper Challenge, you dum dum. Ah, people never learn.
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  • The Diet Coke and Mentos Challenge - Instant Mentos in the eye.
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  • The Gallon Smash Challenge - You could slip and hit your precious head on the supermarket floor. But you know what? Fuck you, you deserve it. Because the biggest downside of this stupid challenge is the fact that someone has to clean this mess after you.
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Related: If Celebs Had YouTube

If celebs had YouTube accounts

  • Matthew Perry - SillySausage. We know Matthew Perry well enough by now to know that his YouTube channel would consist of numerous, 10-minute-long videos full of dad jokes and terrible puns. It would be an instant hit.
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  • Amy Schumer - DearProbablyDrunkAmy. A pseudo-feminist channel for girls aged 13-99. Very relatable.
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  • Jokers Larry - The Invisible Joker. The whole channel would most likely be a never-ending game of Finding Larry. Get it?
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  • Abbi and Ilana - High Concept. These two would most definitely have a weed-related channel. Smoking pot and talking about life and death? We’d totally watch this.
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  • Jennifer Lawrence - Manic Pizza Girl. JLaw would most definitely be one of those youtubers who just film themselves eating in front of the camera. Mmmmm, pizza!
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  • Zayn - zRun. Zyan’s channel would most likely focus on an on-going documentary project in which he joins different boybands and then unexpectedly runs away and leaving the rest of the members confused.
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  • Lisa Kudrow - Tragic Life. We totally see Lisa having a gaming channel dedicated to coming up with new creative ways to kill off your Sims.
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  • David Schwimmer - Juice. Schwimmer would most likely be a beauty guru, with tutorials on how to take care of your skin and hair so it looks like you haven’t aged at all in the last 20 years.
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  • Justin Bieber - VIPchannel. Justing Bieber’s channel would consist of short clips of Justin’s cut out standing in different places, e.g. Nando’s. Unfortunately, it wouldn’t be very popular and Bieber would get a lot of hate for it.
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