I covered some other social media-related accidents in a video a few months ago: "A Brief History of Death by Selfie". Here it is if you want to give it a look: th-cam.com/video/gg55Cu2Jzg4/w-d-xo.html
These can all be filed under, look at me, ego trip stunts. parkour and building scaling,free climbing, Grandview selfie taking, body gliding, thrill seeking. you would be better served making a series. there seems to be a never-ending chain of willing victims of fame & fortune.
Have you done any research into other crazes pre-internet, like phone booth stuffing, pole-sitting, girl watching or panty raids? All of these have some pretty extreme stories attached.
@@carolinematusevich889 that's generally a good thing. conforming is good when forming an orderly queue, but once you're selling your dignity for social media clout you seriously need to reevaluate your self worth. Never mind death by planking.
A lot of things I once thought were relatively new go back a long time. People often claim that social media invented human behavior, but I've found a lot of evidence that says nope, people have been doing stupid things for a very long time, way before the Internet.
@@drygnfyre Things go in cycles. If we had social media back in the 70s, we'd still have the same shit. Well, maybe more cause the shit my dad talks about makes me wonder how him and his friends are still alive.
@@drygnfyre damn, who says social media invented human behavior?! Not surprised by that being some people's assert, though. Honestly I think it's more that social media DEFINED human behaviors.
@@dtrainviabridge I've seen it often. Usually from the nostalgia people who think life was perfect and without issues "back then." As someone who grew up in the "perfect" 90s, I know for a fact that me and my friends did lots of stupid shit. We didn't do it for Internet clout, we did it because we were dumb. But you'd be surprised how many people think that prior to Facebook or w/e, everyone was well adjusted.
It probably was much more safe and funny back then, before social media kicked in and turned an entire generation into brainless narcissistic extremists. Sure ppl have always done crazy sht for fun and attention, but nowhere near the extent we see nowadays, since people from the 80’s still had enough education and IQ to not need to prove the entire world how fearless and daring they were.
I always felt like planking was some sort of lazy version of parkour. Death/injury by planking and selfies is probably the most embarrassing out of all the crazy social media challenges. Imagine dying just to get a picture of yourself lying down.
@@thatgreenslime9517 if there’s any afterlife, possibly they could be. If one of my friends died doing this, or something else equally pointless and stupid, I’d be feeling so many more emotions than embarrassment.
My grandpa used to plank in the front yard and take naps like that ages ago. Two times the neighbors called an ambulance thinking he was passed out or dead lol
A guy I knew throughout high school died at 19 from hood-surfing, where you get on the hood of the car and hold on via the seatbelts from inside the car. Oh and they did this on the Trans-Canada Highway, speed limit of 100-110 km/hr. He fell off and immediately died. It was sad as hell cause he was young and dumb, but the sheer stupidity of doing it on the highway of all places? The fastest road in the country? I mean wth are you thinking.
I knew a guy who died in his teens doing this in a trailer park. Car was going no more than 15MPH but if you hit your head just right, you could die with the car not even moving. Nice kid, just not the best decisions.
@@aethelfrithofbernica No, it isn't. The phrase "object lesson" means "something that serves as a practical example of a principle or ideal." (Merriam Webster dictionary.)
There's a large number of humans. Any one thing that "takes off" in any way is gonna have examples of people sucking or being jerks. It's just a probability thing.
Same thing happened with gender reveals, started with just cakes and balloons, then it was planes and cannons. Surprising amount of people have died from gender reveals and the damage from them has caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.
I live in Australia. I remember people trying to plank on a sign at a busy road on a Saturday night. Every single one of the people walking past them told them how stupid they looked. It's a fad I'm glad is gone.
yet so many fall for more stupid ones then that one, Tik Tok has just fueled that stupidity and I'm glad the US decided to remove the garbage app next yearand every Western country should follow suit as TikTok is trash and created nothing but trash
Hate to break it to you, but looking stupid is kind of the point. It’s when they get that look authentically, with actual risk to theirs and others lives, that it’s a problem.
My sister once planked on a beach, we took pictures and everything. If you remind her of this she will SCREAM and refuse to discuss it any further, lmao
My sisters toddlers did this when they were going through the terrible twos. Strangely, there were 3 years between them, but they BOTH did the same thing when having a tantrum. They lay face down on the floor and didn't move. She thought it was great. When they did this most dreadful protest, she just stepped over them and carried on doing what she was doing. She said they did it in the supermarket occasionally while she was selecting things off the shelf. Other parents would spot it and ask if they were alright. When she told them what her kid was doing, they said, 'God, I wish mine did that.' Funny that a temper tantrum my sister's kids did so naturally became a craze.
I suspect this may be a stage in the development of "cool kids." Observe them closely as they mature, and see how they react to things like dance memes.
Thinking back on it I used to do that as well when I didnt want to walk or move anymore, its not planking its just dead weighting so you can be carried. I also used to cover my ears and scream to annoy my parents. Ive heard of random kids holding their breath when they're having a tantrum as well.
Human beings doing stupid gimmick crazes has been a thing for much longer than you’d think. Look up flagpole sitting, goldfish swallowing, phone booth stuffing, or streaking. Some think the Dancing Plague of 1518 was actually just a fad.
I had to google " non-teenage grown adults " , but i got no wiser. English is not my native language, so this i dont know how to read. Any who can explain? Thank you.
@@6teeth318-w5k "non teenage grown adult" is used for emphasis. It's like saying "grown-ass adult". It's used to emphasize someone's immature behavior. For example, "Look at that grown-ass man putting fake testicles on his pickup truck. What a tool." Another example, "Who do you think you are, bullying the waiter? You're a grown-ass woman, not a high schooler."
Well it didnt truly the 80s kids dont seem to be connected to other kids. It looks like peope from other countries picked it up in the late 2000s, posted it online and just had other people copy them for the fad, same with the ice bucket challenge.
If anything, this is the ultimate proof that we are on top of the food chain. We have time and resources to spare, so we do dumb things like this entirely for our own amusement. We are so utterly dominant that the vast majority of the dangers we face are of our own doing, and we intentionally do it just to feel the same rush as prey being hunted, for fun.
@@rileybobbert6527 That depends where the planking attempt is being made. On the ground? Not stupid. On a 7th floor balcony railing - I'll leave that to you to decide, but I know what my thoughts are 🤷♂
Yeah, I'm confused, because I thought it was like push-ups but not moving. Like you're in a push-up position, but with your forearms on the floor, and you're holding that position to build your muscles.
Its crazy seeing the pictures of the building and balcony he was trying to plank from. Yeah, there are pictures of other people planking on balcony rails or building roofs, but most of them are on the corners, where they have two perpendicular surfaces and are mostly hanging off the balcony side. Planking on a straight railing is crazy.
2005-2015 was basically the age of "look what I can do, and look at me post it on social media and like me". That is the era that spawned the term "influencer" which is the epitome of irony as far as I am concerned. Social media just sped up the natural Darwin effect.
@@powertothesheeple5422nah the concept of influencer culture and all of that wasn’t until waaay later than ‘05, I’d say it was 2012 when social media really started blowing up and people started doing dumb crap for attention and views. ‘05-10 was just a good time online, posting for fun before it became lucrative.
volition - This is why when I was an archaeology student, I argued against the declaration of many *certain* reasons behind some cultures and artifacts. What about "just because?" - and grant-driven academia hated it. But it's true. We are the same human animal that existed half a million years ago.
Sounds like you weren't a very good archeology student. Why did this ancient civilization build all these monuments? "Uhh, uhh, umm, umm, just because!" Can't believe mainstream archeology wouldn't acknowledge your truly groundbreaking idea of declaring anything you don't understand as "just because"
@@PortableCoincidenceMachine My favorite is the idea that they put knives on top of the rafters to be closer to the sun, when that doesn't make sense in the cultural context and there were children around. Humans are fundamentally the same everywhere everywhen. If one wanted to charge one's solar powered/blessed knife one would use solar imagery there or just put them outside. One puts them high up so the little kids don't hurt themselves with the sharps.
Why, as a trained professional working in a hospital, would you lie down on the floor, thus nullyfying the efforts of fighting infections and diseases?
@@patanouketgersiflet9486 This is the one that got me. It's a hospital. If lying face-down in a place where sick/injured people tend to pee, poop, and vomit doesn't turn your stomach a little, you need to look for a different job.
My thoughts exactly. Floors and the ground are dirty. I won’t even exercise on the floor without a yoga mat. Around where I live, Canada geese are a nuisance-they poop everywhere! I wouldn’t even walk barefoot in the grass, let alone lie face-down in it.
Back in Byron Bay in the early 00s, at a festival, we met a bunch of boys who invented something called the “drop roll”, which was intentionally falling over at a crucial moment, when all eyes were on you, for comedic effect. Apparently, one of the boys had done it at his graduation, when collecting his Year 12 certificate. Needless to say, it quickly became a trend with our group for a few months and during the festival. The best one was where one of the lads had been chatting with a bunch of girls, making a good impression, then fell/tripped into a bunch of wheelie bins when walking back to our campsite. It was brilliant 😆
there was a guy at my graduation who intentionally fell right before getting his diploma. funnily enough, i knew about it before-hand, and could see him catch himself, but the audience thought it was real lol
@@briannabanks1659it didn’t need anything added on. It also didn’t need more contribution. You didn’t need to add to it. We already got the point. You could’ve gone without. Redundancy isn’t funny
The term "planking" is confusing here in Sweden. The reason is that the term is usually for describing avoiding paying for tickets for rides and activities. As such, sneaking past a paygate on the subway would count.
…I now want to plank in a Swedish ticket line for maximum confusion. I won’t, because it’s pointless and I live in the US, but it seems like a more fun and less dangerous place to do so than the ones in the video
I still can't believe "Planking" got so big, that you can put together a whole list of the accidents/deaths that happened from it. As a Millennial, we really have no place making fun of Gen Z for TidePods and the like. 😂
Sure we do. I don't think it's generational though. It's more like people with common sense have the right to make fun of people when they do something stupid.
Some of these pictures are actually great examples of why planking is still funny. The guy with the wooden planks and the guy with the cows are my favorite.
Im really happy that other people referred to it as "the laying down game" because when my friends and I would refer to as "extreme laying down" I thought we were just dumb idiots who missed the memo when planking trends appeared. Great Vid!
i love people in the comments acting like planking is the most outrageous and dangerous trend theyd ever seen, as if things like the "cinnamon challenge" or the "salt and ice challenge" didn't exist around the same time lol. out of all of the trends going on during the rise of video sharing platforms, planking was one of the most innocent and harmless ones. its just that generally all internet trends have an unfortunate side effect of a few people taking it too far in an attempt to one-up the rest
The fact about planning Is that It was the first viral phenomenon that caused injuries and deaths, I remember It was a thing in late '90s but It got worse with the rise of social media.South park tried to warn US but we did't listen.
I watched the entire video, not because I found it particularly intriguing, but because it took me that long to sit in disbelief trying to wrap my brain around such a stupid activity.
So, as a bit of a prank, One lies down, like a plank, To appear as a crank, And elicit stares, that are blank, On interweb pages, one ascends in rank, Possibly getting some dough, for the bank, Its an unknown story to me, to be frank, So your sharing it, from me, has earned you a Thank
I feel old right now. I remember this was a craze when I was in highschool. Everyone was doing it for a short time. And then overnight it was gone. Can’t get over that was 23 years ago.
So funny. I know the exact location of the second photo you showed of the older gentleman who's planking on an old, rusted piece of mining equipment. It's in a park I worked at for nearly 10 years! Amazing.
This is amazing. Planking is already old enough to be unrecognizable to so many people that it fits so well with the other historical events. Provided youtube is still around, I can only imagine the reaction of people years, maybe decades in the future to this- maybe like the feeling we get reading up on Dancing Plagues and stuff lol.
Seeing someone planking in one of this channel's thumbnails is definitely not what I expected when I woke up this morning, even tho the topic is serious, there is something that makes the thumbnail kinda funny
I didn't notice until now that you reached 1M subs. Congratulations! I think I subbed when you had under 1k. I always enjoy your stories, esp on 4/1. 😉👍
Since Planking got a video, maybe one on the Cinnamon Challenge? That was a really stupid (and potentially dangerous) trend about a decade ago. Also, vaping. That's still dangerous, but it was even worse in the early days. Popcorn lung and all that (on top of the general issues with nicotine), and due to lax regulation even teens/kids were all over it as a 'safe' alternative to smoking.
I think a challenge that is inherently dangerous (Cinnamon Challenge) is different and not as fascinating as a something weird but safe that the internet took it into dangerous territory.
8:08 I’m always amused by how people pretty much turn off their prefrontal cortex’s when they are competing for attention in a social setting. That’s when the herd behavior kicks in; when what differentiates us from animals is at low activity
I wasn't expecting my local hospital to get mentioned. Interestingly I can't find any mention of the incident on my local newspaper's website, so either they never reported it, or have since deleted any article about it they did write at the time.
@@jekanyika Yep I have done, and did see them. I just found it interesting that our local newspaper, which should be reporting a news story from the local area anyway, and especially so if it has also made national news sources, seems to have not reported it.
I was so confused when I saw the title, because I thought I had seen this video before. Turns out I was thinking of Internet Historian's more meme-y summary of planking, which is an entirely different vibe. Awesome work with this one :)
Stuff like this was happening way before social media, lol. Like the flag-sitting mentioned above, or the fad of seeing how many people could stuff themselves into a phone booth. Not saying social media's great or anything. And it's definitely made stuff like this spread farther and faster. But it's also definitely not the cause.
@@mariebelladonna437 yes, but you will note that planking didn't explode until it was put on social media. Until then there were very few instances of it.
@@cplcabs I'm not denying there's a correlation. But I'd suspect that even before social media, there were more than we think. It's just that before social media, we didn't have a way to hear about it, and share it with others. Again, not as many as after. But still, there were fads, like what I mentioned above, that were definitely widespread.
Ah, memories. I was in Disney with some friends for my 13th birthday in 2011. One of them tried to plank on the 16th-floor balcony of the Bay Lake Tower. My mom broke the sound barrier when she noticed what was happening through the window.
I remember this trend. My highschool started issuing suspensions for anyone caught doing it in dangerous situations, we had 45 student suspensions at one point
I entirely forgot planking was a thing. Had no idea people died for this, but then again, pretty much every internet challenge ends up with a body count unintentionally...
What to watch after scaring yourself big time by watching a creepy tiktoks compilation video in the middle of the night? History of planking should DEFINITELY do it! Not at all what I was expecting from Fascinating Horror lol.
Thank you sir! Very interesting. I swear that dog in the last pic was wondering if he should pee on her or what?🤔🤣🤣🤣🐾 This was the first of the plankers I saw.
That would be a good video on how the internet/media can create a false 'craze'. It's estimated only 86 people actually put a tide pod in their mouth; which is a lot considering no one should be putting them in their mouth, but it was nothing like the media was making it out to be. It certainly didn't warrant tide pods having locks on them, being put behind service counters at stores, or having bans proposed on them.
@@mrbyamile6973 I wouldn’t be to sure about that. To quote HL Mencken, “No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of plain people.”
@@mrbyamile6973From what I heard, it wasn’t a thing initially, someone just posted a picture of tidepods baked into a pizza to make a cursed image. The media then started reporting on it that kids were eating tidepods, and THEN some idiots started trying it cause they heard it on the news.
I covered some other social media-related accidents in a video a few months ago: "A Brief History of Death by Selfie". Here it is if you want to give it a look: th-cam.com/video/gg55Cu2Jzg4/w-d-xo.html
I 100% love this topic!
The Internet Historian video was amusing, and mentioned the injuries and death that this video did.
These can all be filed under, look at me, ego trip stunts. parkour and building scaling,free climbing, Grandview selfie taking, body gliding, thrill seeking. you would be better served making a series. there seems to be a never-ending chain of willing victims of fame & fortune.
Have you done any research into other crazes pre-internet, like phone booth stuffing, pole-sitting, girl watching or panty raids? All of these have some pretty extreme stories attached.
No special mention for Jay-Z? The only man to plank on a million
"He found the experience enjoyable and amusing" is just a wild level of seriousness to attribute to a drunk kid laying on his face in public.
They don't really try to use words good mang.
Lying on his face, not "laying."
This line specifically got me. It probably isn't, but it comes across as AI because of how jarring it sounds compared to everything, lol.
"Authorities considered banning 'stupidity,' but found it way too prevalent."
Maybe they should consider taxing it instead . . . 😉
They would have to Ban our President !😳🙄😵💫
Take all the warning labels off everything, just let it sort itself out.
@Ian.G256 exactly. Those that don't survive are not needed 😂
Stupidity is extremely useful, it help’s keeping the population rise in check. Frankly I wish stupidity was even more prevalent.
Never thought I would hear about this challenge again in 2024.
I thought it was so dumb. I don't conform well. LoL
@@carolinematusevich889 that's generally a good thing. conforming is good when forming an orderly queue, but once you're selling your dignity for social media clout you seriously need to reevaluate your self worth. Never mind death by planking.
@@ataridc 👆🏳🌈
@@carolinematusevich889 I conform to your non conformity 🤣
"Challenge"
The fact that planking goes back to the 80s was the most shocking part of this video
A lot of things I once thought were relatively new go back a long time. People often claim that social media invented human behavior, but I've found a lot of evidence that says nope, people have been doing stupid things for a very long time, way before the Internet.
@@drygnfyre
Things go in cycles. If we had social media back in the 70s, we'd still have the same shit. Well, maybe more cause the shit my dad talks about makes me wonder how him and his friends are still alive.
@@drygnfyre damn, who says social media invented human behavior?! Not surprised by that being some people's assert, though. Honestly I think it's more that social media DEFINED human behaviors.
@@dtrainviabridge I've seen it often. Usually from the nostalgia people who think life was perfect and without issues "back then." As someone who grew up in the "perfect" 90s, I know for a fact that me and my friends did lots of stupid shit. We didn't do it for Internet clout, we did it because we were dumb. But you'd be surprised how many people think that prior to Facebook or w/e, everyone was well adjusted.
It probably was much more safe and funny back then, before social media kicked in and turned an entire generation into brainless narcissistic extremists. Sure ppl have always done crazy sht for fun and attention, but nowhere near the extent we see nowadays, since people from the 80’s still had enough education and IQ to not need to prove the entire world how fearless and daring they were.
In my country (Chile) there's a saying: Someday we will run out of stones, but never ever of stupid people.
😂
Eso es porque Boric es el presidente.
@@dannyarcher6370Nada que ver 😂
That's good!
@@dannyarcher6370 Qué latero y desubicado
I wondered why Planking died out...
People became board with it.
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Badum tss
Fine, take my thumbs up
Groan.
You really nailed it!
Fascinating Horror explaining planking was not on my bingo card
and yet i couldn''t watch it fast enough
Agree 😂
The thumb nail popped up, I starting laughing.
Same
And I still shouted bingo🫨
I always felt like planking was some sort of lazy version of parkour. Death/injury by planking and selfies is probably the most embarrassing out of all the crazy social media challenges. Imagine dying just to get a picture of yourself lying down.
How can you be embarrassed when you're dead?
@@thatgreenslime9517second hand embarrassment maybe?
@@ryanburks2480 I just feel like the best solution to embarrassment is permanent
@@thatgreenslime9517Afterlife full of everyone ever
@@thatgreenslime9517 if there’s any afterlife, possibly they could be. If one of my friends died doing this, or something else equally pointless and stupid, I’d be feeling so many more emotions than embarrassment.
My grandpa used to plank in the front yard and take naps like that ages ago. Two times the neighbors called an ambulance thinking he was passed out or dead lol
😂 I'm gonna do this if I make it to old age
And then everyone clapped
@@stellviahohenheim It's true. I was the front yard.
That’s so bizarre bahahahahah
@@stellviahohenheimThis just in, old man lying down most unbelievable thing to ever happen.
A guy I knew throughout high school died at 19 from hood-surfing, where you get on the hood of the car and hold on via the seatbelts from inside the car. Oh and they did this on the Trans-Canada Highway, speed limit of 100-110 km/hr. He fell off and immediately died. It was sad as hell cause he was young and dumb, but the sheer stupidity of doing it on the highway of all places? The fastest road in the country? I mean wth are you thinking.
Thinking?
No-
NOT thinking.
Ive seen it done on the roof of cars not the hood
I knew a guy who died in his teens doing this in a trailer park. Car was going no more than 15MPH but if you hit your head just right, you could die with the car not even moving. Nice kid, just not the best decisions.
An object lesson in how something harmless and a bit silly gets ruined by idiots taking it to extremes.
The word you were looking for is abject, not object
@@aethelfrithofbernica No, it isn't. The phrase "object lesson" means "something that serves as a practical example of a principle or ideal." (Merriam Webster dictionary.)
There's a large number of humans. Any one thing that "takes off" in any way is gonna have examples of people sucking or being jerks. It's just a probability thing.
It is idiocy, and so therefor will attract idiots
Same thing happened with gender reveals, started with just cakes and balloons, then it was planes and cannons. Surprising amount of people have died from gender reveals and the damage from them has caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.
I live in Australia. I remember people trying to plank on a sign at a busy road on a Saturday night. Every single one of the people walking past them told them how stupid they looked. It's a fad I'm glad is gone.
Car surfing sadly hasn’t gone away though
yet so many fall for more stupid ones then that one, Tik Tok has just fueled that stupidity and I'm glad the US decided to remove the garbage app next yearand every Western country should follow suit as TikTok is trash and created nothing but trash
Hate to break it to you, but looking stupid is kind of the point. It’s when they get that look authentically, with actual risk to theirs and others lives, that it’s a problem.
Then it got replaced with something else that is dumb
Anyone remember “Tebowing” ?😂
I had an ex that did this stupid s , at work in 2011. I had never heard of it. We didn’t last very long after that.
My sister once planked on a beach, we took pictures and everything. If you remind her of this she will SCREAM and refuse to discuss it any further, lmao
😂
Thats...not that special. My best friend planked off the top of a 2 story gas station sign and didnt die or get arrested.
haha, sounds fun to tease
@@whiteyfisk9769who cares
@@whiteyfisk9769Pretty sure it’s not about being special, but the fact their sister is now embarrassed for having ever done it.
This is why you always go planking with your planking harness and planking helmet, and only with an experienced planking guide.
You forgot the airbag
That wood be much safer, I suppose
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@@Eric-oi5yj
and planking insurance.
Gotta have an actual plank with you like in ed edn eddy
My sisters toddlers did this when they were going through the terrible twos. Strangely, there were 3 years between them, but they BOTH did the same thing when having a tantrum. They lay face down on the floor and didn't move. She thought it was great. When they did this most dreadful protest, she just stepped over them and carried on doing what she was doing. She said they did it in the supermarket occasionally while she was selecting things off the shelf. Other parents would spot it and ask if they were alright. When she told them what her kid was doing, they said, 'God, I wish mine did that.'
Funny that a temper tantrum my sister's kids did so naturally became a craze.
I suspect this may be a stage in the development of "cool kids." Observe them closely as they mature, and see how they react to things like dance memes.
Thinking back on it I used to do that as well when I didnt want to walk or move anymore, its not planking its just dead weighting so you can be carried. I also used to cover my ears and scream to annoy my parents. Ive heard of random kids holding their breath when they're having a tantrum as well.
Whenever I see stuff like planking all I can think about is how the fuck I'd explain it to aliens
It's embarrassment.
Imagine explaining sleeping to them!
Human beings doing stupid gimmick crazes has been a thing for much longer than you’d think. Look up flagpole sitting, goldfish swallowing, phone booth stuffing, or streaking. Some think the Dancing Plague of 1518 was actually just a fad.
That 'planking' is even a thing makes me feel more alien than human...
As long as we keep doing stuff like planking, intellegent life forms won't bother visiting.
I plank in my bed for about eight hours every night, but silly me, I’ve been calling it “sleeping” this whole time.
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You lay face down with your arms rigidly by your sides? 😂
Me Planking in my bed 🛌 always involves Tequila. 🤪🤭
_Cheers from México_ 🍹🤘🏽🇲🇽
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Yank before you plank, that’s my motto lol
I can't believe how many photos of non-teenage grown adults planking are in this video
the need for attention by some people is not limited by age
Those grownups were the planking rock stars of the 80s
I had to google " non-teenage grown adults " , but i got no wiser. English is not my native language, so this i dont know how to read. Any who can explain? Thank you.
@piad2102 Basically, he means full-grown adults acting like teenagers,.
@@6teeth318-w5k "non teenage grown adult" is used for emphasis. It's like saying "grown-ass adult". It's used to emphasize someone's immature behavior.
For example, "Look at that grown-ass man putting fake testicles on his pickup truck. What a tool."
Another example, "Who do you think you are, bullying the waiter? You're a grown-ass woman, not a high schooler."
The fact that this has spontaneously evolved in separate parts of the world independently is very perplexing
Dum people tend to do dumb things. With the staggering amount of them over the years, your going to get coincidences.
All in English speaking countries, though. What does that say about us. 😂
It's called Convergent Evolution
People are… Strange.
Well it didnt truly the 80s kids dont seem to be connected to other kids. It looks like peope from other countries picked it up in the late 2000s, posted it online and just had other people copy them for the fad, same with the ice bucket challenge.
When anyone mentions that humans are ‘the top of the food chain’, these are the precious moments I refer them to.
Darwinism would kick in if we had to go back to living among the animals without tech.
Doesn't make it untrue.
We're just planking up here, it's very precarious
If anything, this is the ultimate proof that we are on top of the food chain. We have time and resources to spare, so we do dumb things like this entirely for our own amusement. We are so utterly dominant that the vast majority of the dangers we face are of our own doing, and we intentionally do it just to feel the same rush as prey being hunted, for fun.
Okay, but now I'm picturing one of those Precious Moments figurines they sell at Hallmark, but planking.
The intersection of gravity and stupidity.
theres literally nothing atupid about planking
I don't know why I feel that boy must have had a pint or two too much ... smh
@@rileybobbert6527It's the attempt at defying gravity 7 stories up that's the stupidity. The planking was a mere detail...
@@rileybobbert6527 That depends where the planking attempt is being made. On the ground? Not stupid. On a 7th floor balcony railing - I'll leave that to you to decide, but I know what my thoughts are 🤷♂
Darwin Awards
The only reason i still think about 'planking' is because i do a similar floor exercise to relieve stress in my back and shoulders at work ..
I know. That’s what I thought when I read the title. I thought, people actually have died from doing planks?😂
This is the activity I was thinking about when I opened the video; it's considered one of the "essential" stretches these days ...
In yoga they used to ask us to be in that position, very nice on the neck
I was so confused for a bit lol, I was like "did someone get a lethal hernia while planking"
Yeah, I'm confused, because I thought it was like push-ups but not moving. Like you're in a push-up position, but with your forearms on the floor, and you're holding that position to build your muscles.
Imagine dying for a trending meme that people will forget in 6 months
You just know it's going to get exponentially worse quickly...
And here we are watching a video about it 13 years later
Well it started in 2008 and first death 2011 is quite some time
More like 4-6 weeks. The internet's attention span is minimal at best
It's been way longer than 6 months, lol. Planking is apparently older than "memes"!
The overwhelming need for humans to lay face down for their own amusement is amazing
"Face dancing" and "the laying down game" sound like things you dont want to do with your weird uncle.
🤢
😂
Its crazy seeing the pictures of the building and balcony he was trying to plank from. Yeah, there are pictures of other people planking on balcony rails or building roofs, but most of them are on the corners, where they have two perpendicular surfaces and are mostly hanging off the balcony side. Planking on a straight railing is crazy.
Well, it was at 4:30am so I don't think his judgement was at its best...
The desire to amuse people knows no limits.
They aren't trying to amuse anyone, they want their 5 seconds of internet attention and will do literally anything to get it
The desire to amuse others is simply human nature.
@@vtubersubs3803 Oh, come on now. Some people just wanted to have a little fun. Get over yourself.
People can be so easily amused sometimes. And then inevitably turn a harmless thing into something that manages to hurt themselves or others.
2005-2015 was basically the age of "look what I can do, and look at me post it on social media and like me". That is the era that spawned the term "influencer" which is the epitome of irony as far as I am concerned. Social media just sped up the natural Darwin effect.
Planks!! not worth as much as 2 short 1s either, the divvies!!!
You clicked on this video 🫡
@@powertothesheeple5422nah the concept of influencer culture and all of that wasn’t until waaay later than ‘05, I’d say it was 2012 when social media really started blowing up and people started doing dumb crap for attention and views.
‘05-10 was just a good time online, posting for fun before it became lucrative.
This is - flat out - the greatest video you’ve ever put out
Can you please continue doing these types of “stupid” or death by misadventure videos?? I love this channel!
Something tells me you're in here for entirely the wrong reasons.
@@Electric0eye I’m here for the same reasons you’re here for I guess..
volition - This is why when I was an archaeology student, I argued against the declaration of many *certain* reasons behind some cultures and artifacts. What about "just because?" - and grant-driven academia hated it. But it's true. We are the same human animal that existed half a million years ago.
"Ritual purposes", eh?
Sounds like you weren't a very good archeology student. Why did this ancient civilization build all these monuments?
"Uhh, uhh, umm, umm, just because!"
Can't believe mainstream archeology wouldn't acknowledge your truly groundbreaking idea of declaring anything you don't understand as "just because"
@@PortableCoincidenceMachine My favorite is the idea that they put knives on top of the rafters to be closer to the sun, when that doesn't make sense in the cultural context and there were children around. Humans are fundamentally the same everywhere everywhen.
If one wanted to charge one's solar powered/blessed knife one would use solar imagery there or just put them outside. One puts them high up so the little kids don't hurt themselves with the sharps.
"We have no idea why they made such-and-such, we assume it had ritual significance," nah, it just looked cool. It was the paleolithic fidget spinner.
@@displayer6023you massively misread my comment. I won student of the year twice.
My first thought was “how boring”. My second thought was “eww! Why would anyone lie on the ground where people walked and dogs pooped?”
Why, as a trained professional working in a hospital, would you lie down on the floor, thus nullyfying the efforts of fighting infections and diseases?
@@patanouketgersiflet9486 This is the one that got me. It's a hospital. If lying face-down in a place where sick/injured people tend to pee, poop, and vomit doesn't turn your stomach a little, you need to look for a different job.
Exactly my thoughts. In the grass in a field is one thing. In a public building?
It's amazing how people will go out of their way to get fired from their jobs. 🙃
My thoughts exactly. Floors and the ground are dirty. I won’t even exercise on the floor without a yoga mat. Around where I live, Canada geese are a nuisance-they poop everywhere! I wouldn’t even walk barefoot in the grass, let alone lie face-down in it.
Planking was such a stupid trend
That's the joke "memelord".
@@cokeMONSTERps3 k
Trend and stupid are interchangeable
@@Walamonga1313 oh definitely 🤣
in terms of trends it was actually pretty cool. name me one better trend
Back in Byron Bay in the early 00s, at a festival, we met a bunch of boys who invented something called the “drop roll”, which was intentionally falling over at a crucial moment, when all eyes were on you, for comedic effect. Apparently, one of the boys had done it at his graduation, when collecting his Year 12 certificate. Needless to say, it quickly became a trend with our group for a few months and during the festival. The best one was where one of the lads had been chatting with a bunch of girls, making a good impression, then fell/tripped into a bunch of wheelie bins when walking back to our campsite. It was brilliant 😆
Sounds Willy Wonka inspired
there was a guy at my graduation who intentionally fell right before getting his diploma. funnily enough, i knew about it before-hand, and could see him catch himself, but the audience thought it was real lol
Laying face down on the ground has been a family tradition of ours for decades
lol yea, a family tradition of yours….. and of literally everyone else who has ever existed and then ceased to exist 😂
@@briannabanks1659yea, that’s the joke…
@@austins.2495 I know, I was just adding on to it…
For "generations" would have worked a bit better.
@@briannabanks1659it didn’t need anything added on. It also didn’t need more contribution. You didn’t need to add to it. We already got the point. You could’ve gone without.
Redundancy isn’t funny
The term "planking" is confusing here in Sweden. The reason is that the term is usually for describing avoiding paying for tickets for rides and activities. As such, sneaking past a paygate on the subway would count.
How interesting. Thanks for sharing that.
it is also how we describe ladies with small bosoms .w. !
though i guess the equivalent expression in english would be "flat as a board"
Interesting word play.
…I now want to plank in a Swedish ticket line for maximum confusion. I won’t, because it’s pointless and I live in the US, but it seems like a more fun and less dangerous place to do so than the ones in the video
Turnstile jumping! Now that's a social media challenge I could understand
I still can't believe "Planking" got so big, that you can put together a whole list of the accidents/deaths that happened from it. As a Millennial, we really have no place making fun of Gen Z for TidePods and the like. 😂
It's our job and God given right to make fun of gen Z
I think there's a huge difference between laying down and taking a photo vs eating a toxic substance...
As a millennial who never bought into these stupid fads I can feel free to judge all of these idiots.
Sure we do. I don't think it's generational though. It's more like people with common sense have the right to make fun of people when they do something stupid.
@@jessehutchings🫡
Today in "Deadly Trends I Never Understood in the First Place"
Some of these pictures are actually great examples of why planking is still funny. The guy with the wooden planks and the guy with the cows are my favorite.
It is! Google planking pics and there are quite a few hilarious ones! haha
@doom3798
Tell me you've never been around cattle without telling me you've never been around cattle.
Planking has never been funny and never will be funny. Finding planking funny is a HUGE tell
@@23Butanedione nobody asked you kyle
@doom3798 ... and you think a friendly cow might either break if you put weight on her shoulders or stampede you? I don't think you did.
Im really happy that other people referred to it as "the laying down game" because when my friends and I would refer to as "extreme laying down" I thought we were just dumb idiots who missed the memo when planking trends appeared. Great Vid!
_Lying_ down, not _laying_ down.
Weird fads like this are timeless. I'm sure some people got hurt while flagpole sitting back in the day.
Yeah, mostly butt hurt.
Tru, now they're just immortalized on the Internet and everyone knows about them
My uncle lost a testicle on his way back down from that.
This is a weird one!
2011: Kids React to Planking.
2024: Fascinating Horror on Planking.
I feel like this is the first video of yours I've seen in a long time, but you upload regularly. Commenting so the algorithm gets my vibe more!
It's kind of amazing that human beings not only survive but thrive.
No they don't. Human beings that fall for this dumb s*** need a lot of help. How's that for thriving? Corny.
Thanks!
Thank you!
I'm pleased you called it "unusual behaviour".
I would have been less diplomatic but you are spot on
I was not expecting a video on planking in 2024, but I do remember the articles about the deaths and accidents from planking
Can you imagine telling people my son died planking? I’d be so embarrassed.
i love people in the comments acting like planking is the most outrageous and dangerous trend theyd ever seen, as if things like the "cinnamon challenge" or the "salt and ice challenge" didn't exist around the same time lol. out of all of the trends going on during the rise of video sharing platforms, planking was one of the most innocent and harmless ones. its just that generally all internet trends have an unfortunate side effect of a few people taking it too far in an attempt to one-up the rest
The fact about planning Is that It was the first viral phenomenon that caused injuries and deaths, I remember It was a thing in late '90s but It got worse with the rise of social media.South park tried to warn US but we did't listen.
I watched the entire video, not because I found it particularly intriguing, but because it took me that long to sit in disbelief trying to wrap my brain around such a stupid activity.
I’m still sitting here with my mouth open in disbelief! This does NOT compute😢😂
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Oh dear, death by planking. Never knew planking was even a thing. Fascinating Horror fascinates once again!
Same here, never even heard of it. Doesn't even look like that much fun in most instances.
Of course, Sharon. Glad to be of your service.
-Fascinating Horror
Too bad the accident wasn't in Darwin, Australia, since it was obviously a Darwin Award...
Nice😂
😂😂
depends if the person reproduced or not
Definitely a missed opportunity lol
Kangaroo Point is the most Australian thing I have ever heard. And I've seen crocodile Dundee lots of times.
I feel old right now. I remember this was a craze when I was in highschool. Everyone was doing it for a short time. And then overnight it was gone. Can’t get over that was 23 years ago.
So funny. I know the exact location of the second photo you showed of the older gentleman who's planking on an old, rusted piece of mining equipment. It's in a park I worked at for nearly 10 years! Amazing.
This is amazing. Planking is already old enough to be unrecognizable to so many people that it fits so well with the other historical events. Provided youtube is still around, I can only imagine the reaction of people years, maybe decades in the future to this- maybe like the feeling we get reading up on Dancing Plagues and stuff lol.
Seeing someone planking in one of this channel's thumbnails is definitely not what I expected when I woke up this morning, even tho the topic is serious, there is something that makes the thumbnail kinda funny
Me too! Just woke up!!
I didn't notice until now that you reached 1M subs. Congratulations! I think I subbed when you had under 1k. I always enjoy your stories, esp on 4/1. 😉👍
What happens on the 4th of January?
@@brokentoes78984/1 as in April 1st, or April Fool's Day. They've written the month first ;)
@@brokentoes7898Believe it's the American date format, and they're referring to April Fool's :)
@@escapism-by-proxy5338 Yes it was a joke
Making planking a ceime is the most Australian thing ive ever heard. Lol
Australia finding a way to live up to their reputation of being an island full of nothing but criminals.
2:27 more like a harmless "plank"
Since Planking got a video, maybe one on the Cinnamon Challenge? That was a really stupid (and potentially dangerous) trend about a decade ago. Also, vaping. That's still dangerous, but it was even worse in the early days. Popcorn lung and all that (on top of the general issues with nicotine), and due to lax regulation even teens/kids were all over it as a 'safe' alternative to smoking.
Seconding the cinnamon challenge and maybe also the shorter lived gallon of milk challenge.
Also "skullcracker challenge"
I think a challenge that is inherently dangerous (Cinnamon Challenge) is different and not as fascinating as a something weird but safe that the internet took it into dangerous territory.
You’re full of shit
@@soshiangel90did both, milk was worse. became lactose intolerant lol
8:08 I’m always amused by how people pretty much turn off their prefrontal cortex’s when they are competing for attention in a social setting. That’s when the herd behavior kicks in; when what differentiates us from animals is at low activity
Other animals would never do something as dumb as this, though. Humans are the dumbest and smartest animals around
Im the opposite. Im always trying to blend into the background in a social setting 😆
I wasn't expecting my local hospital to get mentioned. Interestingly I can't find any mention of the incident on my local newspaper's website, so either they never reported it, or have since deleted any article about it they did write at the time.
If you google 'Great Western Hospital planking' multiple news reports come up.
@@jekanyika Yep I have done, and did see them. I just found it interesting that our local newspaper, which should be reporting a news story from the local area anyway, and especially so if it has also made national news sources, seems to have not reported it.
@@MrDannyDetail I used to live in Marlborough and I would occasionally come across the Advertiser or the G & H. They were not the best.
Two back to back cases in Australia make me wonder: Do they plank in a land down under ?
I love this style of videos! Focusing on a topic and sharing a bunch of random stories
I'm from Adelaide, Australia - and I had no idea we played any part in this ridiculous craze!
Can I have your autograph? You're from one of the most famous planking cities.
Planking got banned from my middle school dances. Likely because it was a dance and people would get tripped / stepped on surprise surprise
Danced on. Death by disco. 🎶 💃 🪩 🕺 🎉
That just makes me think of "The Flop" from SpongeBob, lol
Sadly, you can’t ban stupidity. Maybe use educational money on students that want an education.
And then this video comes up in my subscription rotation during my workout, a minute into my 3-minute plank..... 😳😰
they're letting u know they're watching... so u better not skip those workouts👀
@@SeeMeRollingmid grade dad joke
@@austins.2495 shut up lol
@@SeeMeRollingtop tier, imo
How does THIS seem like more of an April Fool's Day video than your ACTUAL April Fool's Day videos?! I just can't believe that this was even a thing.
I was so confused when I saw the title, because I thought I had seen this video before. Turns out I was thinking of Internet Historian's more meme-y summary of planking, which is an entirely different vibe. Awesome work with this one :)
This is why social media is a blight on society.
Stuff like this was happening way before social media, lol. Like the flag-sitting mentioned above, or the fad of seeing how many people could stuff themselves into a phone booth. Not saying social media's great or anything. And it's definitely made stuff like this spread farther and faster. But it's also definitely not the cause.
@@mariebelladonna437 yes, but you will note that planking didn't explode until it was put on social media. Until then there were very few instances of it.
@@cplcabs I'm not denying there's a correlation. But I'd suspect that even before social media, there were more than we think. It's just that before social media, we didn't have a way to hear about it, and share it with others. Again, not as many as after. But still, there were fads, like what I mentioned above, that were definitely widespread.
Ah, memories. I was in Disney with some friends for my 13th birthday in 2011. One of them tried to plank on the 16th-floor balcony of the Bay Lake Tower. My mom broke the sound barrier when she noticed what was happening through the window.
I have never heard of this planking craze. I could see how it could become deadly very fast.
I didn't realise it until i saw it a few seconds ago but....This is the video I've been waiting for since planking became a thing. Brilliant.
Never get caught planking in your workplace. It's embarrassing for all involved
Do you know this by experience? 😂 😉
@jenniferruth812 loved a crafty plank on the workplace, till I got caught
There was a great cold opening on “The Office” about planking in the workplace.
Dwight put an end to that nonsense immediately! 😂
Were you caught planking in the woman’s bathroom again?
As a member of the facepalming society, I strongly disapprove of planking. 🤦♀️
I, too, am a member of this society 🤦♀️
As always, love your posts. I really don’t remember the planking thing, but I was busy raising kids and didn’t watch the news, too depressing.
I remember this trend.
My highschool started issuing suspensions for anyone caught doing it in dangerous situations, we had 45 student suspensions at one point
This feels like an April Fools joke post
Lol I'm getting second hand embarrassment seeing these pictures
So does your mother!!
I did have to check the date.
@@dmacrolens 😂😂😂😂😂
@@dmacrolens GOT 'EM!
You should make one about flagpole sitting. Though there would likely be less info available as it was before the internet.
when planking was still a thing i planked on top of my fridge and fell and hit my head lol
That’s gravity’s reminder to not be a moron 😂
Never heard of planking until now. I wish didn’t know about it at all.
All these stories are HILARIOUS!!! The deadpan delivery has my sides splitting.. Call an ambulance! PLANK TIL YA TANK!!!
I'm watching this at 3:00 A.M for some reason lol
4:20
5:29 lmfao
2:30 AM. Jeepers.
4:29 am for some reason ❤
5:34 A.M. here
I entirely forgot planking was a thing. Had no idea people died for this, but then again, pretty much every internet challenge ends up with a body count unintentionally...
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Yep. Eff around and find out. Another spin on Darwin's Law.
Retire this
Yep
That phrase stopped being witty years ago.
How original
What to watch after scaring yourself big time by watching a creepy tiktoks compilation video in the middle of the night? History of planking should DEFINITELY do it! Not at all what I was expecting from Fascinating Horror lol.
Thank you sir! Very interesting. I swear that dog in the last pic was wondering if he should pee on her or what?🤔🤣🤣🤣🐾 This was the first of the plankers I saw.
I planked on one of those giant red balls in front of Target- that’s about as wild as I got. Lmao
I like vids like these. Fires and crushings get really depressing.
Weird, I’d completely forgotten about planking.
I remember when this all happened. It was horrifying. The news wouldn't stop talking about it, even though it happened across the world.
I have OCD, no way I would "plank" on some random floor or ground.
Tide pods next?
That would be a good video on how the internet/media can create a false 'craze'. It's estimated only 86 people actually put a tide pod in their mouth; which is a lot considering no one should be putting them in their mouth, but it was nothing like the media was making it out to be. It certainly didn't warrant tide pods having locks on them, being put behind service counters at stores, or having bans proposed on them.
Yes, I still don't even believe the Tide Pod challenge was a thing. I think I'd need video proof it actually happened.
@@mrbyamile6973 I wouldn’t be to sure about that. To quote HL Mencken, “No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of plain people.”
@@mrbyamile6973From what I heard, it wasn’t a thing initially, someone just posted a picture of tidepods baked into a pizza to make a cursed image. The media then started reporting on it that kids were eating tidepods, and THEN some idiots started trying it cause they heard it on the news.
Tide pod thing was a false story that had great sway
Always look forward to a Tuesday morning video by FH
"This should get me into the Guinness book of AAAAAAAiiiiiiiiieeeeeer!!!!!!!"
love the music man. please never change it
I agree! I love his channel theme!
if people want to plank, let them plank. If they get fired or injured or die, that is on them and no one else.
This just made my morning complete
I love watching these videos with my dad :D
The short documentary that I didn’t know I needed