The online world has been home to many crazes over recent years, with people indulging in crazy tasks such as planking, fall-ing, Tebow-ing, milk-ing, and cinnamon challenge-ing, but it appears as though nothing is going to compare in sheer video numbers to the newest one, ice bucket-ing.
Fortunately, though, it is not in with the others as merely a fun and unique pastime, but has taken on a means of promoting awareness and raising money in America for the ALS Association, aiding the cause of fighting amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a neurodegenerative disease better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, after the famed baseball player of the 1930’s.
Taking off in mid-July through a a social media web, the past week has really seen the challenge come to the fore, with many celebrities (pictured) and technology personalities taking part. With the unofficial rules stating that a participant may challenge up to 3 more people to pour a bucket of ice water over their heads within 24 hours (otherwise they ‘must’ pay $100 to the ALS Association), it is one that could go on a while.
Notable celebrity participants include Justin Timberlake, Justin Bieber, Oprah Winfrey, and Weird Al Yankovic (who called out “Barack Obama, the Dali Lama, and the Pope” as his nominees), whilst the celebrities of the technology industry have included Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Tim Cook, and Reed Hastings, though it was the Microsoft man who made the most notable mark with a string-pulled bucket tipper, creating one of the biggest videos in the genre to date with over 5 million views.
To show all of these clips in a pile would be using up bandwidth, so below is a compliation that the internet has thrown together of the best ALS Ice Bucket Challenges so far: