The Water Bottle Tik Tok Challenge is the stupidest, most entertaining thing I have ever seen.

Me: ‘TikTok is so stupid, how do people have the time to spend making these videos! And who is God’s name is watching these idiotic things!’

Also me: Watches every single reel on Facebook or Instagram that is copied over from TikTok.

Hand up, I truly thought TikTok was only going to be a fad. I figured it would be around for about six months and then join Vine and Harlem Shake videos in the social media retirement home. But we are three years into it now and it is just about the biggest thing going with no end in site. I refuse to actually create an account but as mentioned above, I do spend a fair amount of company time watching reels on Facebook which I’m pretty sure are videos that are harvested from TikTok.

Which leads us to the tweet at the beginning of this blog. At some point someone started the, ‘Water Bottle Challenge,’ on TikTok, where you tie a water bottle to a ceiling fan, blindfold yourself, and then try to avoid getting popped in the head. Like a scene from the movie Saw, if Jigsaw was only into dumb social media challenges.

And I fully admit, this is stupid. SOOOOOOO stupid. But I also can’t stop watching them. I laugh every single time. And the video I put at the beginning of this blog is my favorite one yet. Her old man didn’t even THINK about trying to duck to avoid getting hit. Gets his bell rung over and over and over again and just eats it every single time. 1:00-1:30 had me dying. Just standing there is the most ‘dad’* outfit ever getting hammered relentlessly.  I hate how much I love it.

*Crew neck sweatshirt, plain jeans, a mortal lock he’s rocking either Air Monarch’s or New Balance 608’s on his feet.

PS: I like to picture him still in that room days later, still getting pummeled by an Ice Mountain bottle long after his kids left the room.