Quarantine Fight Challenge

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Quarantine Fight Challenge or Boss Bitch Fight Challenge refers to a series of videos in which friends appear to fight one another from home. The trend was started by a stunt man in April 2020 and was then performed by others on Instagram and Twitter using the hashtag #quarantinefightchallenge. In May, actress Zoe Bell started the #BossBitchFightChallenge using the same concept in her star-studded video.

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On April 10th, 2020, Instagrammer and stuntman aarontoney posted a video made in collaboration with his friend and colleagues captioned, "#quarantinefightchallenge (Worldwide Edition)Who says you can’t do a fight while in isolation. Watch this 😏The concept hand been floating around my brain. My friend @penelopetalleur said we should do a fight. I said your right. And here we are" (shown below). The video gained 5,500 views and 1,100 likes in three weeks..

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On April 15th, 2020, Instagram user muhdabdulfaliq posted a video using the #quarantinefightchallenge hashtag and gained over 1,600 views in three weeks. The video features a series of friends home alone fighting at the camera.

On April 26th, Twitter user @FlashpointAct tweeted their own iteration and added the caption, "Everyone's going a little crazy being stuck at home, and us stunt actors and martial artists only know one way to blow off steam…#QuarantineFightChallenge! Special thanks to fellow stunties Christopher Troy and his friends for getting this trend started, and all our friends!" (shown below). The video received over 800 views in a week.

On May 1st, 2020, actor Zoe Bell posted a video of herself and various other celebrity stuntwomen fighting from home. The video captioned, "#BossBitchFightChallenge Here it is……! Kicking lockdown boredom with some of the coolest! Ladies, you are all my hero’s.❤️👊❤️ 📣 a massive personal shout out to @bodhihorn for editing the flick and my stress levels! ❤️, garnered over 211,100 views and 26,700 likes in four days. Mashable^[2] and StayHipp^[1] published articles on the video.

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