Actor and rapper Will Smith is really good at social media — remember when the Philadelphia native chronicled his reactions to the Eagles’ run to a Super Bowl?
As a reminder: the challenge consists of filming yourself wiping down a mirror, and on certain swipes, you reveal a different image. Smith’s alternate was himself in Men in Black, with a punchline that showed his Agent J using that flashing light thing at the end of the video.
The coronavirus pandemic has put a lot of daily activities on hold, some more crushing than others. For graduating high school and college seniors, the pandemic has robbed them of the best parts of senior year, namely all the parties that go along with actually getting a diploma. It won’t make up for it, but Krispy Kreme is offering a free box of donuts to the class of 2020 at their locations today, May 19.
To get the free box, seniors need to prove that they are graduating this year. They’ll need to either show up wearing a cap or gown with a 2020 tassel, or some kind of class of 2020 swag or a high school ring. For those that don’t have tassels or rings, seniors can also bring a student ID or a graduation announcement.
Of course, people are excited about this reason to celebrate, and lines for some Krispy Kreme locations stretched down the street.
He said since I can’t walk the stage I’m walking the Krispy Kreme drive thru 😂 pic.twitter.com/RSiNejHK9n
Krispy Kreme is handing out 2020 donuts to all graduates. The line is long, but the wait is worth it! All them are greeted with a congratulations and a box of donuts! #kakenewspic.twitter.com/Wr8lgXgk3w
— Brennan Barger Kake News (@BBargerKAKE) May 19, 2020
Honestly, I don’t want to see anyone making fun of people for waiting in line for free donuts. First of all, you never know what someone is going through, but also, free food is free food. Get those donuts but be nice and patient with the people serving you. Also, congratulations to all the graduating seniors in 2020! It it truly sucks that your senior year had to end like this, but on the bright side, free donuts!
With so many people stuck at home as quarantining and social distancing continues into May, TikTok has continued to be a place where folks can flex some serious creativity and take on some challenges — remember “Flip the Switch” that Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez pulled off?
The latest trend that’s burning up the digital airwaves? It’s the “Wipe it Down” Challenge, and like the “Flip the Switch,” it involves setting up your phone to face a mirror.
It starts with someone wiping down the mirror with glass cleaner, and when you swipe, the image in the mirror switches back and forth with every wipe. It’s the perfect thing for these crazy times when we’re washing and wiping everything in sight.
Influencer JoJo Siwa was trending Tuesday morning with her entry:
Roger Federer loves his GIFs. The 20-time Grand Slam champ doesn’t always respond to fans on social media, but when he does, it’s often with a perfect GIF and few to no words.
And that’s what happened Sunday on Twitter in what appeared to be an impromptu Q&A with fans grilling Federer on a wide variety of topics, ranging from his food preferences to cartoons to the best Avenger to his favorite GIF. He covered a bit of ground with some delightful exchanges — calling them conversations seems like a bit of a stretch here — with fans into the later hours of the night for the Swiss player.
Surely like tennis fans everywhere, we love seeing this side of Federer for an extended period of time while everyone is social distancing as much as possible because of the coronavirus outbreak. So here’s a sample of his endearing Q&A with his supporters.
Joe Buck’s play-by-play of a race to empty the dishwasher is so good.
In these scary and uncertain times as people are hunkered down in their homes (as much as possible) during the coronavirus pandemic, John Krasinski has been bringing some fun and heartwarming moments to the internet with his new YouTube show, Some Good News.
Krasinski’s shift to sports in this episode begins just after the 5:20 mark, while Buck joins in about two minutes later, impressively calling a woman playing a version of pop-a-shot with her laundry and some guy racing to empty his dishwasher in less than a minute.
After Buck’s delightful appearance, Kransinski went on to talk about why, in this world without sports, he misses baseball so much.
“For me, and I’m sure a lot of you, the calendar year just really doesn’t feel the same until that Opening-Day pitch is thrown out,” he explained while introducing highlights of kids playing baseball.
We couldn’t have said it better ourselves, @johnkrasinski. ⚾️ ❤️
Krasinski also celebrated the people in healthcare who are tirelessly working during the COVID-19 outbreak. And he even brought in David Ortiz, the Red Sox and people around Massachusetts for a surprise during a trip to Fenway Park.
Naturally, as this challenge escalates while people are social distancing and staying inside when possible, superstar Simone Biles took it to a whole new level, as GOATs do.
Forget the t-shirt. Biles — one of countless athletes all over the world impacted by the 2020 Tokyo Olympics being postponed until next summer — did a prolonged handstand while taking off a pair of sweatpants and hilariously offered a little commentary as she struggled with that second leg.
With a move seemingly only she could perform, we’d expect nothing less. She’s great at everything. And amazingly, in the replies to Biles’ video, some people are actually attempting it.
Meanwhile, others — including Ryan Reynolds, who was first part of Holland’s challenge — want nothing to do with it.
Simone I have to lay down and have someone else do it normally
Three-time Olympian Lolo Jones is a rockstar who appears to be handling the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics relatively well, all things considered.
When USA TODAY Sports broke the news that the International Olympic Committee was planning to postpone the Games — one day before it officially did — because of the global COVID-19 outbreak, the American hurdler and bobsledder made a joke about ordering a pizza and delaying her retirement from the track for another year. And while quarantining, she’s been posting funny videos to social media about how she’s killing time and working out — like bench pressing her couch.
So not only did her boredom lead her to try the handstand t-shirt challenge, but she also one-upped the people who made the challenge go viral: Tom Holland and Jake Gyllenhaal. The Spider-Man actor shared a video of him doing a handstand while putting on a shirt and challenged Gyllenhaal, among others, to do it. And he did.
But like an elite athlete, Jones took it a step further. She put on two t-shirts while upside down on her hands *and* did it while having a glass of wine.
when I saw Spider-Man and Jake Gyllenhaal do a handstand challenge with one shirt…
first I want to thank them for having their shirt off because I haven’t seen a man in 25 days and also pic.twitter.com/BpQTiOsDY3
It’s the photo that went mega-viral recently that hopefully you’ve all seen.
A picture of a Microsoft Teams call in which someone’s boss used a filter that turned her into a talking potato, but she can’t turn it off, “so she was just stuck like this the entire meeting.”
That can be Zoom, Teams, Skype, Google Hangouts and others. It can be used with YouTube, too.
3. Find your video input settings in your platform and set it to Snap Camera
4. Choose your filter
You can be a potato:
my boss turned herself into a potato on our Microsoft teams meeting and can’t figure out how to turn the setting off, so she was just stuck like this the entire meeting pic.twitter.com/uHLgJUOsXk
— Rachele with an e but pronounced Rachel (@PettyClegg) March 30, 2020
Or Joe Exotic:
There’s a Tiger King filter in SnapCam that can be combined with virtual backgrounds! I was all about it on our sales call today. Mark Exotic, the Zoom totin’ Tech King! #avtweeps#wfh@zoom_us@Snapchatpic.twitter.com/kolLSJiN2l
Checking out Snap Camera with the UTB team today as I prepare for the FB Live tomorrow at 10am NZ time-I will be talking about bringing the fun to your video calls-check it out!! #toptipswithtea. I think we all look AWESOME #lovemyjob#utb#remoteworkingpic.twitter.com/PzCwLRLltA
People across the world have been hunkered down in quarantine for an extended period of time, which means boredom and anxiety have most certainly set in. To pass the time, there have been a flurry of coronavirus social media challenges. Those challenges range from the mundane, like shooting hoops with laundry, to the skilled, like showing off your dance moves =, to the downright ludicrous, like the handstand t-shirt challenge.
If the name wasn’t already a tip-off, the handstand t-shirt challenge involves putting on a t-shirt while doing a handstand and it sounds like a great way to get seriously injured. Marvel actor Tom Holland might have started it, I don’t honestly know. He did post a video on his Instagram of him huffing and puffing his way into a t-shirt while upside down.
whoever invented this “handstand tshirt challenge” and got Tom Holland to flex shirtless on insta stories… thank u very much pic.twitter.com/RlHu79aBx9
Now, this might be a gift for the Holland stans, but it’s also really freaking extra. Holland tagged his Spider-Man Far From Home co-star Jake Gyllenhaal in the challenge as well as Ryan Reynolds and a few others.
Gyllenhaal took the bait and tied up his long hair so he could also show off his ripped abs and upper body strength.
Anyway, the handstand t-shirt challenge should be left to trained actors or possibly skilled gymnasts, otherwise, it seems like a great way to take a trip to the emergency room.
Another way to have fun without being in the same room.
While researching my list of fun games and activities you can do on Zoom or Google Hangouts or other video conferencing services while you’re stuck at home, I found out — via a friend’s invitation — that there was an easy way for us to watch Netflix together virtually as isolation and social distancing continues.
There’s a Chrome extension called Netflix Party you can install and use to share with your friends and family to watch shows on the popular streaming service.
The useful thing here is you can all watch the same thing at the same time without having to start the same show at the exact same moment, or have it streamed through those aforementioned video chats (although you COULD do this on video, it’s better to have a chat typed out than people interrupting the sound from what you’re watching).
So here’s what you can do (only if you have Chrome on a desktop/laptop AND only if everyone in your group has a Netflix account):
3. There will be a red NP in your address bar. Hit it, “start party” and share the link with your friends. You can also select “only I have control,” which allows the host to pause, rewind or fast-forward.
4. Have your friends click on it. Then, chat n’ watch!
