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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).

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).

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]

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