People are throwing their Vans in the air to test out a pretty cool theory

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Just like a cat will always land on its feet, a pair of Vans sneakers will always land on their soles when thrown into the air. 

That was the claim made by Twitter user  @Ibelievthehype when they unwittingly created the latest viral challenge. 

@Ibelievthehype shared a video of themselves throwing a pair of checkered Vans across a room, landing perfectly laces-up after bouncing around on their rubber soles. 

“Did you know it doesn’t matter how you throw your vans they will land facing up,” @Ibeleivthehype wrote. And that’s how the #VansChallenge was born.  Read more…

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This hilarious invisibility prank is giving kids an existential crisis

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Move over, #WhatTheFluff. There’s a new challenge sweeping the internet. 

Being invisible sounds like an immensely useful superpower — if you could hide in plain sight, you could get away with almost anything. Everyone seems to love the idea of it, until they’re actually invisible. 

Kind of. 

People are convincing their little siblings that they’re invisible, with the help of a blanket, some magic words, and a photo. 

So we saw this challenge on twitter how this family told there brother he disappeared and we wanted to try it out on my little cousin,he got so scared 😂😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/jZMhun6Cbn

— angiee (@smangie831) August 29, 2018 Read more…

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This hand swap optical illusion is wildly confusing the internet

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There are some things that you either get straight away, or you don’t get at all.

The viral video below, in which Twitter user @kay_dera demonstrates a slightly mind-boggling hand swap trick, is the perfect example of this.

Pay close attention:

Did you get it?

Well, some people had it instantly.

got it! pic.twitter.com/ONEnSwTpbj

— rio (@sidoniebyr) August 22, 2018

First try pic.twitter.com/1IJqfv9KV8

— Ameel (@sy4meel) August 23, 2018

pic.twitter.com/bLdU7z9URV

— MAR$🏳️‍🌈 (@MarsReese) August 22, 2018

Others, meanwhile, were less sure. Read more…

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The #DeleAlliChallenge has people attempting to make an unusual hand gesture

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The #InMyFeelings challenge is going to have to take a seat for just a second.

The next internet craze is upon us: People are trying, and mostly failing, to copy a pose Tottenham Hotspur player Dele Alli did after he scored a goal against Newcastle this week. Whether it was planned or not, this was the first sighting of this now iconic hand gesture.

What Alli does with his hands looks simple enough — but it turns out making an “ok” sign with your thumb and forefinger, turning it upside-down, and then letting it rest around your eye is actually harder than it seems.

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YouTubers are buying and opening terrifying mystery boxes from the dark web

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It’s Viral Market Crash week on Mashable. Join us as we take stock of the viral economy and investigate how the internet morphed from a fun free-for-all to a bleak hellscape we just can’t quit.

There was a time when unboxing videos focused on the fun and geeky merch you’d get from Loot Crate. Now, what was once an innocent way of showing off your cool products, has taken a creepy and disturbing turn thanks to the dark web.

While this deep and relatively difficult to access part of the internet is often used for nefarious activities like selling drugs and or stolen goods, merchants on this corner of the web look like they’re expanding their services. Dark web sellers are creating “mystery boxes,” that contain random and sometimes terrifying objects that people are purchasing with Bitcoin and then opening on their YouTube channels. Read more…

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