FRAMINGHAM, MA — Online “challenges” where social media users challenge others to perform some task and share the video under a common hashtag have the ability to go viral and spread very quickly.
Some challenges are for fun or to do good; like the “Ice Bucket Challenge” which was used to raise awareness and money by The ALS Association. During the past few weeks, (August 2021), videos of people taking the “Milk Crate Challenge“, went viral on TikTok using the hashtag #milkcratechallenge.
The challenge is (was) to walk up one side then down the other side of a line of milk crates stacked to make “steps” that rise seven crates high in the middle.
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