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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/
(Score: 5, Interesting) by driverless on Friday January 04 2019, @09:31AM (4 children)
I agree, and I'd like to see some more movies that create memes:
The running downhill with steak knives challenge for climate change deniers.
The chlorox-drinking challenge for white supremacists.
The nosedive-into-concrete challenge for Goldman Sachs bankers.
The ...
(Score: 3, Funny) by nitehawk214 on Friday January 04 2019, @02:56PM (3 children)
And this is a chance for anti-vaxers to "go viral".
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 04 2019, @02:58PM (2 children)
Anti-vaxers harm people who can't or have not yet gotten vaccines.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 04 2019, @04:31PM
No, they dont. Infants dont get vaccinated because they are already protected by maternal antibodies, so the vaccine doesnt take. The people putting these babies in danger are those spreading false rumors about the danger of vaccines to infants. When the mother is vaccinated (rather than have the full blown infection) the antibodies wane faster, so the guidelines need to be updated to a younger age. This isnt happening for political reasons because of fear mongering like your post.
The next biggest cause of lack of vaccination is poverty, "antivaxxers" are a rounding error.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 04 2019, @10:01PM
they don't harm anybody, you stupid authoritarian bitch. the illness does.