#don't sing

{Don’t Try To Sing Or Dance Challenge Anime Version}

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DON’T SING CHALLENGES ARE BULLSHIT HERE’S WHY

It boils down to this, boys and girls.

Singing along with your favorite showtune or song is an expression of emotion. The song gives you feelings, you express them by singing along. It’s a very healthy reaction!

Inversely, sitting through a music videos and forcing yourself not to express any emotion? That’s repression. Straight up emotional repression. 

By taking these “Don’t Sing” challenges, the entire point is to sit through a video and prevent yourself from FEELING. And how fucked up is that? Why would anyone want to willingly subject themselves to a cultural “challenge” where the entire point of it is to shut off normal human emotions for ten minutes at a time???

People will tell you that the idea behind them is to show self control. Self control is going Golden Corral and forcing yourself to eat the real food before indulging in two plates worth of chocolate fountain goodness. Self control is NOT teaching yourself to shut off emotional response because you were dared to.

It’s fucked up is what it is. I did one of these ONCE. Last night. I made it 3/4ths of the way in before practically having an emotional breakdown over it. 

THESE CHALLENGES ARE BULLSHIT THEY AREN’T COOL THEY AREN’T QUIRKY THEY ARE PROMOTING UNHEALTHY BEHAVIORS AS A GAME TO SEE WHO CAN DESTROY THEMSELVES HARDEST

So yeah. Stop promoting/glorifying/making these “Don’t Sing” challenges.