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2014·The social era

The Ice Bucket Challenge

You might remember it as ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

This is the copy ViralWorld can show you. Whether it is the first is not established.

  • SourceNo single original
  • MediaPlayable from the source

The most successful participatory challenge ever run, and a phenomenon whose origin is genuinely disputed.

Uploaded as ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

The story

What this was

It first appeared in 2014, during the social era. A surviving copy is on YouTube.

It is held here as a defining example of Ice Bucket Challenge, which this index tracks across 1 version(s).

You were there

More from 2014

The same internet

The social era

Not one video

Part of a wider phenomenon

A canonical example of Ice Bucket Challenge. See the phenomenon

What we know

Where it came from

There is no original to identify: this spread through many separate posts at once rather than from a first one. Where it came from is recorded here, and what is shown is one example.

View this upload on YouTube

Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this, because research established there was not one — it appeared in many places at once.

Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.

When
Originally published 2014.
Where
Known on YouTube.
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