By now, you've probably seen the zoom challenge.
I wouldn’t help my sister with the #zoomchallenge so she did it by herself???? 😂😂😂
It involves pretending to drive and "zooming away" from the camera.
It's been dubbed the "zoom challenge" because a lot of people are making their videos to Lil Yachty's song "Mickey."
It was created after a video was uploaded to Twitter featuring Janaya Underwood, 14; her mum, Monique Underwood, 37; and Janaya's older sister, Jaylynn Malone, 19.
Malone told BuzzFeed News that her sister randomly remembered a Vine from years ago that had someone doing a trick and attempted to re-create it.
Today this is what my sister came into my room to show me
"When she first showed it to me I was shocked and had to watch it a couple times and then had her explain to me," Malone said.
"My sister was really excited that she pulled it off and sent the video to our family’s group chat and that’s where my mom comes in."
Their mum got really into it.
Update: my mother is amazed and is about to attempt
Their mum said: "When I first saw the video I was like, 'Wait, what?! How bored was she to come up with something like this.'"
And they had some fun trying to figure it out.
The process
And their mum successfully re-created the video.
The product
The next day, mum was told by the kids that the tweets were going viral and she said, "Watching the numbers climb was unreal. Lol. This video is really going viral."
The videos went insanely viral. Other people started trying it, and it kickstarted the #zoomchallenge.
@ebonypotatohead I can’t rn y’all 🤣
IKKKK I’m late but .. #Zoomchallenge
But some people have been hitting their heads.
Bitch I screamed 😂
Welp, I tried. 😂😭 #ZoomChallenge
Questions about safety have been raised.
People are damn near injuring themselves and their kids doing the zoom challenge. You're supposed to push off a surface, and then play the recorded video in reverse. Out here pulling these babies into bad hips and head concussions. 🤦🏾♀️
STOP GIVING THESE KIDS CONCUSSIONS IN THESE ZOOM VIDEOS!! all these poor babies bout to walk around skipping the number 4 when they count and not being able to see anything blue .
Malone said that a lot of the videos are actually shot differently from how her sister did it. "Janaya actually played the video in reverse," she said.
They gotta be stopped💀💀💀
So instead of potentially hurting yourself, it's probably best to film it on Snapchat and edit it so it plays in reverse.
@IM_A_COKEBOY_ Then play it in reverse!