Charlie Charlie Challenge

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The Charlie Charlie Challenge (dt .: Charlie Charlie game ) is a modern version of the Spanish paper-and-pencil game Juego de la Lapicera ( Game of the pins ). The game works similar to a Magic 8 ball and is played with two pencils.

game

Four pens

In an earlier version of the game, four players each held two pencils in the shape of a square and pressed the ends of their pencils against the other player's. As with a Ouija board as a was Ideomotorischer effect produced, whereby the pencils without any conscious control of fused.

Two pens

In this type of game, two pens are used to form a grid (with boxes labeled "Yes" and "No") and then to ask questions of the "supernatural power" "Charlie". The top pencil is then watched to see what answer Charlie gives. The first question everyone asks is "Can we play?" or "are you here?" The upper pencil is in an unstable equilibrium on a central fulcrum , which means that the slight breeze of air can make it rotate, or the breathing of the players watching the pencil can make the pencil rotate.

history

In Spain and Hispanic America, teenage girls have played juego de la lapicera for generations to find out which boys in their class they like.

The game was already described on the Internet in 2008 , but only became popular in English-speaking countries in 2015 . The hashtag #CharlieCharlieChallenge contributed to this. On April 29, 2015, a lurid report in a tabloid magazine about the game played in the Hato Mayor province of the Dominican Republic was uploaded to YouTube . The involuntary comedy in the report led the game to become a Twitter trend, breaking the language barrier and spreading across the world.

Reactions

According to Caitlyn Dewey of The Washington Post , this game is valuable as an example of cross-cultural viral trends: Charlie acts as a killer case study into virality and how things travel in and out of languages ​​and cultures online . You will find that, for example, many gamers and reporters talk about the game as if it was new even though it is an old game that has only just crossed a language barrier.

BBC Mundo's Maria Elena Navez said, "There is no demon named 'Charlie' in Mexico" and suggested that Mexican demons with English names (Spanish speakers would say "Carlitos") "are usually American inventions".

Urban legend expert David Emery says that some versions of the game copied the ghost story La Llorona , popular in Hispanic America, but the pencil game has no tradition in Mexico.

Joseph Laycock, a professor of religious studies at Texas State University , noted that although Charlie is "most commonly described as the" Mexican spirit, "it appears that Christian critics have chosen the game because of their desire to have" healing encounters with the supernatural. " monopolize "would almost immediately" view it as satanic.

In April 2017, the East Libyan government banned the game because it was responsible for six suicides.

Publicity

The producers of the horror film The Gallows promoted their film with the trending game Charlie Charlie Challenge and released a video clip with the game. There are two films that thematize the title of the game, Ouija 3: The Charlie Charlie Challenge and Charlie Charlie .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Creepy 'Charlie Charlie Challenge' spreads across Twitter as children urge each other to 'summon Mexican demon' . In: Daily Mail . 2015-05-216. Retrieved July 11, 2017: "There is also a two-person version of the game that uses six pencils."
  2. ↑ Phil Edawards: "Charlie, Charlie, are you there?" Why teens are summoning demons, explained. . In: Vox . June 5, 2015. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
  3. ↑ Charlie Charlie Challenge: Can You Really Summon a Demon? . In: Livescience . June 3, 2015. Accessed July 11, 2017.
  4. ↑ Charlie Charlie Challenge - what is the spooky craze, and what is the explanation for it? . In: The Telegraph , May 30, 2015. Retrieved July 11, 2017. 
  5. ^ A b David Emery: What's the Charlie Charlie Challenge, and Why Does It Freak People Out? . In: thoughtco.com Arts, Music, and Recreation ›Whimsy . May 28, 2015. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
  6. ^ Charlie Charlie Challenge explained: It's just gravity — not a Mexican demon being summoned . In: The Independent . May 27, 2015. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
  7. ^ Esther Zuckerman: Here's Why People Are Freaking Out Over the Charlie Charlie Challenge . In: Time . May 27, 2015. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
  8. ↑ a b The complete, true story of Charlie Charlie, the 'demonic' teen game overtaking the Internet . In: The Washington Post , May 26, 2015. Retrieved July 11, 2017. 
  9. ^ Charlie Charlie Challenge Twitter users conjure up ghost Charlie , Frankfurter Rundschau, May 26, 2015
  10. ↑ Juego supuestamente satánico denominado Charlie - Charlie practicado en Hato Mayor . In: Telenoticias 11 / Youtube .
  11. ↑ Where did Charlie Charlie Challenge come from? . BBC. May 26, 2015. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
  12. ^ Joseph Laycock: The 'Charlie Charlie Challenge' and Teenage Yearning for Supernatural Encounters . In: Religion Dispatches . June 15, 2015. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
  13. ^ East Libya government bans Charlie Charlie game . In: Libya Observer , April 14, 2017. Retrieved July 11, 2017. 
  14. ↑ Charlie Charlie Challenge: everyone on the internet thinks it's a marketing stunt, but it probably isn't . In: The Independent . Retrieved on June 2, 2015.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.independent.co.uk  
  15. ↑ Ouija 3: The Charlie Charlie Challenge (2017)
  16. ↑ Charlie Charlie Challenge in the Internet Movie Database (English)