About

#TheFloorIsLavaChallenge is a social game spread via hashtag in which two people play a variation of The Floor Is Lava game. In the variation, one person yells "The Floor Is Lava!" and the other person has five seconds to get off the ground by getting on top of something or they fail the challenge.

Origin

On May 29th, 2017, Instagram personalities Kevin Freshwater^[1] and Jahannah James^[2] both posted video compilations of times they gave the challenge to each other that gained over 78,000 and 168,000 views, respectively (YouTube embed shown below).

Spread

The challenge spread on Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter over the following weekend, as people posted videos of themselves performing the challenge and tagged a friend. As of June 2nd, there are over 6,300 posts on Instagram under the hashtag #thefloorislava.^[3] Several compilation videos of the challenge have been posted to YouTube as well. The most popular, by Ultimate Challenge Compilation, has over 53,000 views (shown below). The challenge has been covered by The Daily Dot,^[4] Mic,^[5] and Daily Mail.^[6]

Various Examples

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