Bottle Cap Challenge
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About
The Bottle Cap Challenge, often represented by the hashtag #BottleCapChallenge, is an internet challenge in which participants record themselves performing a roundhouse kick to a bottle in order to graze the cap with their foot, causing it to quickly spin off. In late June 2019, the challenge was popularized online after being performed by various celebrities.
Origin
On June 25th, 2019, Taekwondo instructor Farabi Davletchin posted a video to Instagram[2] in which he kicks a bottle cap off a bottle several times using different approaches (shown below). Within six days, the post garnered more than 211,000 views and 12,500 likes.
Spread
On June 28th, mixed martial artist Max Holloway tweeted[3] a clip of himself kicking a bottle cap off a bottle, along with a message passing the challenge on to musician John Mayer (shown below).
Be curious my friends! #challengeaccepted #bottlecapchallenge Passing this on to our guy
— Max Holloway (@BlessedMMA) June 28, 2019JohnMayer</a> …. hey John if you can’t complete this challenge <a href="https://twitter.com/erlsn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">erlsn and I decided you have to come to Hawaii after your tour and kick it with us until you complete it! 🦶🍾😅 🙏⚡🤙 👊 pic.twitter.com/gLWn0dpOzV
The following day, Mayer posted a video of himself kicking off a bottle cap on Instagram, along with a message calling for actor Jason Statham to perform the challenge as well (shown below). Within 48 hours, the post received more than four million views and 798,000 likes.
On July 1st, Statham uploaded footage of himself performing the challenge to Instagram, where it gathered upwards of 11 million views and four million likes in less than 24 hours (shown below). The following day, Ebaum's World[1] highlighted the Jason Statham video in a post titled "Jason Statham Takes the #BottleChallenge to the Next Level with a Roundhouse Kick." Meanwhile, Memebase[4] highlighted several of the challenges in an article titled "Bottle Cap Challenge Is Inspiring Jason Statham And John Mayer To Flex On Each Other."
TikTok
On July 2nd, 2019, various TikTok users uploaded their #BottleCapChallenge videos. TikTok user @patroX uploaded an impressive flip but lost the challenge in a video that gained over 125,000 likes in a day (shown below, left). That same day, TikTok user @MartyandMichael uploaded a teamed up version of the challenge (shown below, center) and @withrussianaccent uploaded a tutorial on how to fake win the challenge (shown below, right). Their videos gained over 32,700 likes and 11,300 likes respectively in a day.
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External References
[1] Ebaum's World – Jason Statham Takes the #BottleChallenge to the Next Level with a Roundhouse Kick
[2] Instagram – @farakicks
[3] Twitter – @BlessedMMA
[4] Memebase – Bottle Cap Challenge Is Inspiring Jason Statham And John Mayer To Flex On Each Other
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