Hi! You must login or signup first!

227274_203270453043520_202791626424736_480341_7568921_n

Submission   20,140

Part of a series on Photo Fads. [View Related Entries]


About

Teapotting is a photo fad involving people posing as a teapot with their arms and body in a way reminiscent to the children's song and dance "I'm a Little Teapot". It's widely considered as a much safer version of Planking, among other recent photo fads.

Origin

On May 16th 2011, Alison Coate and Olivia Campbell, two teachers from Mortlake College, Australia, created the first Facebook page for Teapotting[1] featuring themselves doing a teapot pose in various locations from the school playground to the staffroom.

According to several Australian newspapers, including The Age[2], The Examiner[3] and The Herald Sun[4] that accounted for the immediate phenomenon of that particular fad, Alison Coate commented that the idea came to be following the increasing popularity of Planking and that they wanted to see if anything could become a craze by launching their own trend.

"We were mentioning how unbelievable the media attention has been (for planking)," she said.

"We were joking around that anything can become a 'craze' on Facebook these days, so why not start one by making a teapot stance?

"When we were kids everyone did the dance but we came up with the idea thinking that with something as stupid as planking there could be something fun like teapotting."

Spread

Still according to the aforementioned newspapers, the Facebook page gained about 2 000 likes overnight. As of November 29th 2011, the page has got over 6 000 likes and collected dozens of pictures from people around the world.

On May 17th, it even reached TV, in a news segment from Sunrise, with a link to their own set of pictures:

It also reached Tumblr [5]

Examples

WELCOME MORTLAKE COLLE

External References

[1] Facebook – Teapotting

[2] ThaAge.com.au – Forget planking – now it's teapotting / 5-19-2011

[3] Examiner.com.au – Forget planking – now it's teapotting / 5-19-2011

[4] HeraldSun.com.au – Teapotting: the 'safer' alternative to planking / 5-18-2011

[5] Tumblr – Tags for teapotting



Share Pin

Related Entries 40 total

241543903_1_
241543903 / Heads In Freezers
Plank
Planking
Shoesonheads
Put Shoe on Head
Owling
Owling


Recent Images 33 total


Recent Videos 0 total

There are no recent videos.




Load 19 Comments
Teapotting

Teapotting

Part of a series on Photo Fads. [View Related Entries]

Updated Dec 30, 2019 at 03:58AM EST by Y F.

Added Nov 29, 2011 at 11:17AM EST by Tomberry.

PROTIP: Press 'i' to view the image gallery, 'v' to view the video gallery, or 'r' to view a random entry.

This submission is currently being researched & evaluated!

You can help confirm this entry by contributing facts, media, and other evidence of notability and mutation.

About

Teapotting is a photo fad involving people posing as a teapot with their arms and body in a way reminiscent to the children's song and dance "I'm a Little Teapot". It's widely considered as a much safer version of Planking, among other recent photo fads.

Origin

On May 16th 2011, Alison Coate and Olivia Campbell, two teachers from Mortlake College, Australia, created the first Facebook page for Teapotting[1] featuring themselves doing a teapot pose in various locations from the school playground to the staffroom.

According to several Australian newspapers, including The Age[2], The Examiner[3] and The Herald Sun[4] that accounted for the immediate phenomenon of that particular fad, Alison Coate commented that the idea came to be following the increasing popularity of Planking and that they wanted to see if anything could become a craze by launching their own trend.

"We were mentioning how unbelievable the media attention has been (for planking)," she said.

"We were joking around that anything can become a 'craze' on Facebook these days, so why not start one by making a teapot stance?

"When we were kids everyone did the dance but we came up with the idea thinking that with something as stupid as planking there could be something fun like teapotting."

Spread

Still according to the aforementioned newspapers, the Facebook page gained about 2 000 likes overnight. As of November 29th 2011, the page has got over 6 000 likes and collected dozens of pictures from people around the world.

On May 17th, it even reached TV, in a news segment from Sunrise, with a link to their own set of pictures:

It also reached Tumblr [5]

Examples

WELCOME MORTLAKE COLLE

External References

[1] Facebook – Teapotting

[2] ThaAge.com.au – Forget planking – now it's teapotting / 5-19-2011

[3] Examiner.com.au – Forget planking – now it's teapotting / 5-19-2011

[4] HeraldSun.com.au – Teapotting: the 'safer' alternative to planking / 5-18-2011

[5] Tumblr – Tags for teapotting

Recent Videos

There are no videos currently available.

Recent Images 33 total


Top Comment


+ Add a Comment

Comments (19)


Display Comments

Add a Comment