We’ve already written about stupid social media trend #CharlieCharlieChallenge, in which stupid teenagers use stupid pencils like a stupid Ouija board based on a stupid casually-racist rumor about a “Mexican demon” named “Charlie,” because that’s a reasonable name for a Mexican demon who likes pencils.
Anyway, it was a stupid marketing campaign.
Everything is terrible.
As the video above shows, this Charlie Charlie thing comes from a scene in The Gallows, a horror movie I will say no more about, other than it filmed before this challenge started, they’re obviously behind the social media trend, and we still aren’t going to look up when this movie is in theaters or what it’s about. I feel dumber just for noticing this all existed in the first place.
Anyway, some people took the stupid #CharlieCharlieChallenge very seriously, like the priest in Philadelphia who wrote an open letter to high school students about the dangers of this “demonic activity.” Meanwhile, some of us were never sure it was the real thing…
Spoiler, Mad Men was just viral marketing for Coke this whole time.
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It just seemed to dumb even for the internet.
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The pencil kept going to “NO” every time I asked Charlie, “Is Amy Schumer a thing I should give a crap about?” He may be a hoax, but at least Charlie’s a smart hoax.
I’m pretty sure this was done with the Ouija board movie last fall on reddit. Bunch of posts on r/paranormal and others describing stuff that happened in the movie.
Jeeze guys, i think you mean it’s a brilliant ad campaign! Stop being jaded and appreciate the work and payoff some team did to make this culturally relevant.
Will i see the movie? of course not! But then again I doubt i’m the target audience.
Right! I’m loving it! It’s like, Just Do It and then they did. I mean, its not tv it’s HBO. This marketing team loves to fly and it shows. Ok, now I’m done. Somebody record me dumping this ice water over my head please.
Wait…Mad Men was viral marketing for Coca Cola? Or yayo? Because….yayo.
Free Yayo!
Was Pastor Swope in on this too or is he just stupid?
No, but I got a lot of people asking about it. I have said it looked like the old finger puppet fortune teller game we used to play in elementary school. And I said I would get a lot of messages from people with mental health issues. And I did. Curses and possessions are things of the mind, no matter what the true source.
1st rule of Internet. Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet. Did you forget?
Ha! Snopes makes you look like an ass. [m.snopes.com]
Blahahaa!! They even call Robo Panda out by name?! …All over your face kid!
I think I’d just give up blogging if Snopes blasted me like that.