Origin, danger…what to you know about the viral milk crate challenge
By Esther Innocent
You must have seen one or two posts on the crate challenge. But if you have no idea of what the milk crate challenge is all about, this article is for you. In this article, we will examine the Origin of the viral crate challenge and its attendant danger.
WHAT MILK CRATE CHALLENGE IS ALL ABOUT?
It is very necessary that we know about the crazy viral challenge that even celebrities are seen placing a bet for.
The milk crate challenge involves a dangerous task of climbing a pyramid made of crates and then climbing back down without falling.
Its process starts by the attendants finding as many milk crates as possible and stacking them up until it looks like a pyramid.
Bets are placed to see who has the courage and the capability to survive. If you don’t make it to the end, be ready for everyone around you to laugh and for the rest of the world too, after the video is shared online.
However, just few persons have made it to the top. Other falls before they could reach to the end of the challenge.
HOW MILK CRATE CHALLENGE STARTED?
The Milk crate challenge has swept the world off their feet as some people can’t stop engaging in this dangerous task.
“I can’t stop watching milk crate challenge videos” one Twitter user wrote.
Therefore, it becomes of great importance to even know how this viral crate challenge originated.
It is said that the origin of the Milk crate challenge is still unclear.
Some say the remarkable athleticism displayed during the Tokyo Olympic Games earlier this Summer inspired this.
Some others say, it’s pure boredom. With COVID-19 still raverging the streets and restrictions being put in place again, people tend to be bored and the only option is the discover the hidden”crate challenge” to get entertained.
However, the website “Know your meme” has pointed out that the inspiration behind this latest challenge is based on a June 2011 video titled”Guys falls off 6 Milk crates”.
According to them, on 1 August, a resident of Chicago posted a video of two men ascending on Milk crate challenge on Facebook, which allegedly is the first video of what would later be known as “the Milk crate challenge”.
About two weeks later, two people shared the videos in Columbus, Ohio and went viral after a video of people failing the challenge was posted to TikTok, where more than 5 million people viewed the post within 24 hours.
Since then, this challenge has gone vital, both Communities and nation wide.
Over the past week, the challenge has been trending across multiple platforms due to videos shared on social media and received by millions of people who view them.
“It is the biggest thing that’s going on in every neighborhood right now”
You go to any park or public right now and you will see crates there” Derek, a 38-year old social media personality based on Long island, popularly known as Itsbizkit said.
He also stated that his Twitter followers has increased by 30,000 in the week since he started posting Milk crate challenge videos. And other are having similarly reports. It is no longer News!!
It is saddening as the more brutal the fall, the more viral the videos becomes.
IT’S ATTENDANT DANGER
One may ask is this viral crate challenge fun? Yes, very fun. While watching some of the videos shared online, the attendant at some point might start to shake, then one will likely say,”Oh” Ah”, “this person is about to fall”and when the person finally falls, you laugh so Loud.
But the injury and recovery is not worth what the entertainment.
It is true that a lot of people took the challenge and completed it successfully but you might not be as lucky as those people.
Some videos have been shared where people break their bones or get badly hurt while falling during their attempts.
This milk crate challenge could lead to some nasty injuries, ranging from,shoulder, hips, leg, back dislocation and rotator-cuff tear, ACL and Meniscus tears, Broken wrists or even Spinal-cord injuries,Death, paralyses, torn ligament, just to mention but a few.
The viral crate challenge pose a great Public health challenge than COVID-19.
Some Health experts are also warning that injuries from the challenge are putting more stress on hospitals at a time when emergency rooms Nationwide are overwhelmed because of the surge in neck of coronavirus infections.
“With COVID-19 hospitalizations rising around the country, please check with your local hospital to see if they have a bed available for you before attempting the challenge”, Baltimore City Health, said.
In New York, one observer tweeted how young people in her neighborhood were at a bodega”trying to negotiate buying crates” so they could do the challenge on concrete. Later on, she shared a photo of an ambulance with the caption,”crate challenge over”
Don’t wait till you get hurt before you stop.
If you want to be famous, find another way not through some dangerous task that will leave a scar on you for the rest of your life.
According to Shawn Anthony”everyone needs to do their part in supporting first responder and health-care providers and that involves not partaking in challenges like this one that are putting additional strain on the system”
The fact is that you should know that this wouldn’t be the last viral moment the world will have, more are coming and only those that are wise enough will be safe. One viral moment is not worth the expensive of medical bills.
Hence, I end with what Schuitema said”so many of these injuries were seeing are preventable just by being intelligent. If you catch a corner of one of those crates, it’s going to be problematic. It looks like something funny, but real people are getting real injuries” Be wise!!