The cinnamon challenge
By: Espen
Winger Karlsen
The
cinnamon challenge has been around for decades but in the resent years it has
also become a meme. The rules are simple. Eat a spoonful of cinnamon in less
than a minute whit out drinking water.
Thousands of people have posted their attempts of beating this challenge
on video-communities like You Tube.
It sounds
easy to do, but completing it is very difficult. The cinnamon dries up the
contestant’s mouths making it very hard to swallow. This results in him coughing up a small cloud
of cinnamon. The earliest video of the
cinnamon challenge was posted on You Tube April 2nd, 2006. It shows
how a young guy attempts to eat a spoonful of cinnamon. As he eats the spoon he
has a unique reaction to the cinnamon.
There seem
to be two factors that compel people to beat the cinnamon challenge. First of
all, it sounds much easier than it is. This makes some people try it to see if
they can beat all the people who have attempted before them.
The second
compelling factor is their funny reaction. Everyone make faces when they try
swallowing it. This gives people a lot of attention on You Tube. There are lots
of videos with over a million views each of people eating cinnamon.
A few different of those reactions can be seen
here:
Some people
actually beats the challenge aswell:
 cinnamon challenge |
The cinnamon challenge phenomenon reached its
peak in Google trends in early 2012
after the Chicago tribune posted an article on dangers with cinnamon. The
article can be seen here. This article seems to have fuelled the
phenomena making it even more popular than before.
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