The Ice Bucket Challenge
You might remember it as ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
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2014·The social era
The most successful participatory challenge ever run, and a phenomenon whose origin is genuinely disputed.
Uploaded as ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
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Part of a wider phenomenonNot one video
A canonical example of Ice Bucket Challenge. See the phenomenon
What this wasThe story
It first appeared in 2014, during the social era. A documented example is on YouTube.
It is held here as a defining example of Ice Bucket Challenge, which this index tracks across 1 version(s).
Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · a moment that changed what the internet did next · everybody made their own version · still being watched and quoted years later
This is the copy ViralWorld can show you. Whether it is the first is not established.
- SourceNo single original
- MediaPlayable from the source
Where it came fromWhat we know
This spread through many posts rather than one identifiable original. The example shown is one surviving copy and is not claimed as the first.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this. It spread through many posts rather than from one identifiable original.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
- When
- Originally published 2014.
- Where
- Known on YouTube.