Yearender 2016: Weirdest internet challenges of 2016
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Published : Dec 31, 2016, 2:00 pm IST
Updated : Jul 8, 2017, 8:39 pm IST
Social media activity went up this year and with it the number of bizarre challenges on the internet also saw a rise with people putting codoms on their heads and having A4 size waist (Photo: Facebook)
Another one was the A4 waist challenge that gained popularity from China, as women were working on their waist so that it could fit within an A4 sized paper (Photo: Facebook)
In line with several beauty challenges like the thigh gap, the bikini gap involved attaining a physique which led to a bikini stretching in a manner that it resembles a bridge (Photo: Facebook)
The collarbone challenge took the internet by storm as another body challenge as people posted images of placing different objects on the collarbone and showing off their physique (Photo: Facebook)
As the world seemed obsessed with body image, challenges like the belly button challenge emerged where people curved their hand across their back to touch their own belly button (Photo: Facebook)
The most mind boggling of internet trends was the condom challenge. Where a condom was filled with water, held over a person's head and dropped in a way that it wrapped around the person's head without losing any water (Photo: Facebook)
The mannequin challenge was one of the most popular this year as everyone from bollywood celebrities to the first lady of US posing as mannequins (Photo: Facebook)
What can you possibly hold in your stretchable sweat pants? While many of us never thought of it, the internet went berserk with netizens posting images of putting everything from guitars to flower pots in their sweatpants for the Grey Sweatpants Challenge (Photo: Facebook)
Among the weirdest internet beauty trends was an interesting way to curl your hair which involved doing so with tampons, as the method became a trend among girls and was soon a challenge with girls posting video after video (Photo: Facebook)
The summer of 2016 was marked with various make up trends, and among these people applying hundred layers of make up on their nails, face and body resulted in video after video being posted online, which made the trend an internet challenge (Photo: YouTube)