For this assignment, I chose the mannequin challenge. I also did the 22 push up challenge but felt that the mannequin challenge generated more followers and more people doing their own version of the challenge. While it's hard to say, who was the first person to do the challenge it's widely accepted that Dr. Dr's music video Kush back in 2010 is the first creation of what would become the worldwide phenomenon.
Like the Harlem shake tend the mannequin challenge needs more than just one of two people. The bigger the crowd of people participating the better the result. The challenge was started in 2016 and with in a few months thousands of people had posted their own version. The term mannequin challenge will garnish some 19.8 million results. The Harlem shake challenge will only come up with 14.2 million to compare the two. The usual song used for the challenge is Black Beatles by Rae Sremmurd. The artist famously did the challenge live during one of his concerts.
The HBO television show Westworld was the most popular and most talked about thing in t.v. during the rise of the mannequin challenges. The show is about a park where people interact with robots. The robots can be made frozen by saying one word. When said, word is uttered all the robots will freeze.
The idea of this only helped to fuel the trend. People have compared the challenge to films that have done similar shots in their film. Films like the Matrix and X-Men days of future past. The idea of the challenge has been around forever. I have always liked it when an actor is supposed to be dead but you can see their eyes move or see them breathing. The mannequin challenge does the same thing but on a much bigger level. All though the challenge has slowed down and is now considered old by social media standards it still has breathe.
The amounts of groups that have done the challenge is insane. Sports teams took the challenge to the next level. Some of the best videos coming out and being retweeted were coming from athletes. T.V. shows not to be out done, started doing their own mannequin challenge. Two of the better ones out there come from SNL and Ellen.
People strive to be like the ones they see on t.v. Once the athletes and actors in the silver screen started doing the challenge everyone else started following suit. All though the mannequin challenge didn't start as a way to raise money or awareness there are a number of cases where people have used the popularity of the trend to bring attention to any number of causes.
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