- The “broom standing up” challenge has gone very, very viral.
- Millions of people seem to care more about standing up brooms than serious issues, such as global warming and politics.
- Claims that NASA said February is the only day you could make a broom balance are completely false.
The “broom standing up” challenge may be the dumbest thing in human history.
Yeah, I know we’ve had countless bloody wars, mullets, and Pokémon.
But this week’s trending craze – trying to stand a broom up by itself – is undoubtedly the most idiotic virus civilization has ever contracted.
The broom challenge isn’t just pathologically stupid. It’s the clearest evidence that the human race may be doomed.
Our species is racing towards environmental disaster. We’re speeding towards control by omnipotent tech giants. And we’re careening towards the breakdown of liberal democracy.
So for millions of people to care more about standing a stick on its head than averting the above disasters is, to say the least, slightly insane.
Twitter Is The Root of All Evil
So where did the “broom standing up” challenge begin? Where else? Twitter.
The social media platform is basically the world’s gutter. It’s where every inane or bigoted thought that would otherwise die a natural death goes to be reborn as a digital virus.
And it’s where some user by the handle of @mikaiylaaaaa reintroduced the broomstick challenge to the world :
NASA? The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said February was the “only day” a broom could stand up on its own?
Well, numerous “reputable” news outlets such as CNN
That didn’t stop legions of morons from reveling in the “historic” event by filming themselves standing their own brooms up.
It’s as if the world was about to end. But rather than run for the nearest bakery or sexually willing adult, we all ran for the nearest broom.
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