Mario Kart Challenge
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About
Mario Kart Challenge refers to a TikTok trend in which people entertain themselves using treadmills, usually by riding the treadmill in a laundry basket and gradually increasing the speed. These are set to the "Rainbow Ride" music from Super Mario 64.
Origin
On May 15th, 2020, TikTok user @Jesse_Ring[1] posted a video of herself riding a treadmill in a laundry basket set to the "Rainbow Ride" music from Super Mario 64. The video gained over 3.1 million likes (shown below).
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6826877669561388293
Precursor
Prior to Jesse_Ring's video, there have been TikTok videos in which users use treadmills to consume food and beverages set to the same music. For example, users breeziebecks8 and soave7 both posted videos where shots approached them on the treadmill, gaining over 459,000 and 25,000 likes, respectively (shown below).
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6811928055175482630
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6814918020041821445
Spread
The video inspired others to attempt similar challenges with treadmills. On May 16th, user jmoneythekid posted a similar video, gaining over 24,000 likes (shown below, left). User loicsuberville posted a video which gained over 8,000 likes (shown below, right). The trend was covered by the Daily Dot.[1]
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6827252302290750726
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6827135763533057285
Various Examples
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6816468088637132037
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6827177561966005509
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6827157549926632710
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6817136158720396549
Search Interest
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External References
[1] The Daily Dot – People are using treadmills to recreate Mario Kart on TikTok
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