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Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge

posted by martyb on Friday January 04 2019, @06:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the bird-box-or-bird-brained? dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1984

Netflix has issued a warning to its customers thanks to a meme challenge that has gone viral in which people are choosing to put blindfolds on and navigate the world around them just like the characters in the horror movie “Bird Box.”

[...] For those who spent the holidays visiting friends and not watching Netflix, here’s a quick summary. Netflix released a horror concept movie called Bird Box starring Sandra Bullock. In Bird Box, Bullock and her children, Boy and Girl, are forced to wear blindfolds and navigate a river and spooky forest to protect themselves against the evil monster that, if seen, causes people to kill themselves.

The movie not only broke viewership records, it inspired a bevy of #BirdBoxChallenge memes, including ones in which folks record themselves blindfolded and attempting to do complete tasks, many of which are depicted in the movie.

Can’t believe I have to say this, but: PLEASE DO NOT HURT YOURSELVES WITH THIS BIRD BOX CHALLENGE. We don’t know how this started, and we appreciate the love, but Boy and Girl have just one wish for 2019 and it is that you not end up in the hospital due to memes.

— Netflix US (@netflix) January 2, 2019

Of course, these videos aren’t staying tucked away. They’re being shared with the world on social media. One viral meme shows a blindfolded family paddling away in their bathtub. Another shows a family running through their living room and one managing to hit the wall instead. There are numerous videos of random people walking blindfolded in cities like New York because sure, why not. One person put a hat over his head while driving.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/02/netflix-pleads-with-people-to-stop-doing-the-bird-box-challenge/

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday January 04 2019, @07:27AM (12 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Friday January 04 2019, @07:27AM (#781955) Homepage Journal

    Despite that I only rarely use my flashlight when camping and feel completely comfortable walking around with my eyes shut or in pitch darkness.

    How could I possibly do this?

    It's because I can feel the pressure of very low frequency harmonics near the walls they reflect off of. It gives me a sense of the wall's presence; that acoustic pressure is a very subtle sensation but with some practice you too could put the #BirdBoxChallenge completely to shame.

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    Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 04 2019, @07:55AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 04 2019, @07:55AM (#781958)

    Can we come test this empirically?

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by MostCynical on Friday January 04 2019, @08:16AM

      by MostCynical (2589) on Friday January 04 2019, @08:16AM (#781966) Journal

      Level crossing, experimental self-driving car, no street lights, no head lights.

      Repeat multiple times to confirm replicability.

      --
      "I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 04 2019, @02:11PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 04 2019, @02:11PM (#782030)

    You have blind earthbender powers? Nice. You should have gotten the JREF's million dollar challenge when it was still running.

  • (Score: 2) by ilsa on Friday January 04 2019, @04:26PM (3 children)

    by ilsa (6082) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 04 2019, @04:26PM (#782086)

    Do you also happen to wear a red suit and be good at martial arts?

    • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday January 04 2019, @10:59PM (2 children)

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday January 04 2019, @10:59PM (#782281) Journal

      santa claus?

      --
      Washington DC delenda est.

      • (Score: 2) by ilsa on Friday January 04 2019, @11:40PM (1 child)

        by ilsa (6082) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 04 2019, @11:40PM (#782302)

        I would LOVE to see kung fu santa kicking ass, but not quite.

        Does "beating up NY crooks with two batons" help narrow it down?

  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday January 04 2019, @05:51PM (1 child)

    by Freeman (732) on Friday January 04 2019, @05:51PM (#782137) Journal

    Are you saying you're Daredevil? 'cause that's what that sounds like.

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    Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 04 2019, @07:05PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 04 2019, @07:05PM (#782184)

      Are you saying you're Daredevil? 'cause that's what that sounds like.

      Geez, Louise! He's saying he's Santa! Pay attention!