On March 14, 2020, Pedro Sánchez decreed the first state of alarm in Spain, with the intention of stopping the spread of the coronavirus pandemic and beginning a long confinement that kept all Spaniards locked up in their homes for months to prevent infections.
Now, three years after this famous date, we remember some of the viral challenges that were successful during the coronavirus and kept millions of people distracted at home, having a good time trying to recreate the challenges. Next, a trip to the past remembering some of the most notorious challenges.
From Johannes Vermeer’s The Milkmaid to Munch’s The Scream, thousands of famous pieces of art have been recreated under the hashtag
During the days of confinement, the panic of running out of toilet paper caused thousands of people to buy countless amounts of this product. A fact that gave much to talk about and also started the ’10 touches challenge’, which consisted of giving ten touches with the paper on the foot.
There are many people who spent the confinement exercising from home and perhaps, for this reason, the challenge of staying in a plank making quick elbow movements to the rhythm of Maggie Linderman’s Pretty girl was one of the most successful.
Video calls with our loved ones have also become part of our daily lives. For this reason, the ‘Pass the brush’ took advantage of this reality to create a challenge in which the members of the video call passed the makeup brush to finally create a joint video in which from one second to the next they appeared perfectly made up.
Get Busy by Sean Paul was one of the most popular songs during the pandemic and thousands of people joined in doing the popular dance with extremely fast movements.
Surely during the pandemic you saw the ‘Flip the switch challenge’, the challenge that consisted of a couple exchanging clothes after turning off the light. A fashion that came to accumulate more than 740 million visits.
I’m just a kid by Simple plan was the theme chosen for thousands of people to remove their family albums to recreate some of their favorite and most iconic images.
Boredom also caused the creation of multiple challenges bothering our cohabitants, as was the case with the ‘Simba challenge’, which consisted of painting your finger with ketchup and then passing it across the forehead of another person with Simba’s song from The Lion King .
The ‘Emoji challenge’ was undoubtedly one of the most fun and difficult to hold back while doing it: imitating a sequence of emoticons to make them look as real as possible.
Undoubtedly, one of the most popular challenges as a couple was the ‘Na Na Na challenge’, a choreography for two putting their feet together to the rhythm of Bonde R300 and ZondZilla.
