Move over extreme sports, 'extreme phone pinching' is guaranteed to deliver an adrenaline rush like never before. Warning: It's not for the faint-hearted.
极限运动靠边站，现在是“极限捏手机”时代。据说这种活动会令人体肾上腺素分泌暴增，刺激性可以说前所未有。警告：胆小者慎玩。
The nerve-wracking new challenge has people
dangling1 their expensive smartphones over all sorts of dangerous places like toilets, drains, balconies and even high cliffs. There's only one rule - they've got to 'pinch' their
gadgets2 using only their thumb and
forefinger3!
The bizarre, rather pointless trend was
apparently4 started by Twenty One Pilots, an American indie pop band. They posted a YouTube video of them performing the phone pinch
stunt5 and it spread like wildfire across various social networks,
garnering6 over 300,000 views. Before long, the hashtag #extremephonepinching became a thing and people began tweeting videos and pictures of their own attempts.
Some of the gifs and videos show people holding their phones over gaps in drains, while others
dangle7 them over balconies several stories high. A few have held them over cliffs, rivers, famous bridges, and even Niagara Falls. One girl tried the challenge when she was in a hot air balloon. "Almost #extremephonepinching on a hot air balloon but my mom yelled at me," she tweeted.
The trend seems pretty harmless because it seems that the forefinger and thumb do a pretty good job of holding gripping a phone. But there have been a few accidents, like with Twitter user @samtolliver1 who posted pics of his broken phone with the
caption8 "when extreme phone pinching goes wrong." And one person was dumb enough to hold their phone over a toilet using a long pair of
tongs9. Needless to say, it fell right in!
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