The Stupidest YouTube Challenges of 2016

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There were lots of challenges this year, these are the ones that should maybe stay in 2016...

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00:00 Hello and welcome to another year of stupid challenges.

00:03 You guys are so smart.

00:05 You create such funny things that go viral.

00:07 So what was flipped first, the chair or the bottle?

00:10 Chair flipping apparently started in New Zealand

00:12 with this video of two boys flipping chairs and dabbing.

00:16 I might not be able to flip, but at least I can dab.

00:18 Double dab, triple dab.

00:20 Next, the bottle flip challenge.

00:26 This surprisingly got a lot of attention this year,

00:28 even getting featured in YouTube Rewind.

00:30 I swear, I used to do this a lot in elementary school,

00:41 but I didn't get millions of views.

00:42 Where my views at?

00:44 The hands-free selfie challenge got a lot of attention.

00:47 Oh, crap.

00:48 I just broke my [BLEEP] phone.

00:51 You throw your phone up in the air

00:52 and either dab or high five yourself,

00:54 again with the dabbing.

00:55 [WHOOSH]

00:56 [BOOM]

00:58 I feel like we're going backwards.

01:00 Cameras on phones are getting better,

01:01 and we're just taking [BLEEP] pictures.

01:04 This next challenge is flawless.

01:06 All you have to do is waste tons of money on makeup

01:08 and put 100 layers of it on your body.

01:10 We can thank Nailogical and Jenna Marbles for this one.

01:13 I am officially done with this look.

01:17 And if you have no money, just opt for doing 100 layers

01:19 of clothes, and then give away those clothes to Salvation Army

01:22 and help the world.

01:23 If you have hundreds of pens lying around,

01:25 you could possibly do the pen challenge

01:27 and stick pens everywhere in your body,

01:29 in places you didn't even know you had.

01:31 Here at "What's Trending," we even gave it a try.

01:33 And here's what it looked like.

01:34 Ta-da!

01:35 Finito.

01:37 You should all start dying right now.

01:38 The banana peel challenge was a pretty funny one to watch.

01:41 People try to figure out what happens if cartoons actually

01:43 happened in real life.

01:45 Yes, people of planet Earth, banana peels are slippery.

01:48 I wonder how many people got hurt doing this.

01:50 Now, I'm not sure if this next one is a challenge or just

01:52 a really stupid thing to do.

01:53 The hottest pepper challenge is where you basically

01:55 eat the world's hottest pepper, the California Reaper pepper,

01:59 the hottest one on the Scoville scale,

02:00 10 times as spicy as a jalapeno.

02:03 Started by Lizzie Wurst, and man,

02:05 listen to this girl scream.

02:07 [SCREAMING]

02:11 It's literally like you're going through an exorcism.

02:14 I think the funniest thing about this challenge

02:15 is that the guy who's filming it, Lance Stewart,

02:17 her boyfriend, did another stupid thing

02:19 by cutting his finger while trying to be a fruit ninja.

02:22 Great minds think alike.

02:23 And finally, the duct tape challenge.

02:26 The duct tape challenge involves wrapping a person in,

02:28 you guessed it, duct tape, and seeing how long it

02:30 takes him or her to escape.

02:32 It made news in January because a kid in Oregon

02:34 fell trying to free himself, hit his head,

02:36 and suffered an aneurysm as a result.

02:38 Besides almost dying, he also got 48 stitches to his head.

02:42 And a special honorable mention goes to the Chuck E. Cheese

02:45 challenge.

02:46 [MUSIC - CHUCK E. CHEESE, "DON'T YOU KNOW"]

02:50 These three guys tried something,

02:52 but it never took off.

02:53 Millennials, we just got to stick to what we know.

02:55 Tablets and phones and sexting.

02:59 And while we do get frustrated and hate

03:00 how stupid all these things are, we do appreciate all of you

03:03 for your entertainment.

03:05 Millennials do the darndest things.

03:08 So which challenge was your favorite, and what did we miss?

03:10 For more trends like these, just go to whatstrending.com.

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