#bellybuttonchallenge pic.twitter.com/gm5fQA4kat
— Lizbaezb (@lizbaezbb) June 15, 2015
Almost done #bellybuttonchallenge pic.twitter.com/AV04nwErJ8
— Sevcan Celik (@sevcance) June 15, 2015
#WTF le #BellyButtonChallenge : La nouvelle lubie des #internets ! > http://t.co/jp4CcDEEj0 pic.twitter.com/V46IOFHWwf
— Paulette Magazine (@___Paulette___) June 15, 2015
#bellybuttonchallenge on Weibo, China's @twitter http://t.co/snWWpcdIJM pic.twitter.com/9Sp8xwyOgY
— World Now (@worldnow_wn) June 15, 2015
So the #BellyButtonChallenge has gone viral. Kids these days..
https://t.co/QxnsBfgWu7
— Aditya (@forwardshortleg) June 14, 2015WASHINGTON — Suddenly, the Ice Bucket Challenge doesn’t seem so silly.
The newest viral challenge asks the question: Can you reach around your back and touch your belly button?
It started in China on Weibo — the Chinese equivalent to Twitter — and has been mentioned hundreds of millions of times on both microblogging sites.
Most of the participants are young female users.
Fitness, nutrition, and psychological experts worry that focusing on a stunt that encourages being extremely skinny is potentially damaging to a person’s psyche.
What makes matters worse — being skinny doesn’t make the #bellybuttonchallenge any more doable.
Longer arms and flexibility increase a person’s ability to perform the task, as much as having a small waistline.
