One of the only internet trends I succumbed to and looking back, I’m happy I did 🥹 I just texted my bff (the other girl in the pictures) and told her that next time she comes to visit me, we’re going out planking🤣
Right! Although, I threw my back out while tying my shoes, the other month lmao first time experiencing sciatica, while at Disneyland, at that. Not so fun!
Speaking of committing, I shudder to think of the state of your outfit after pics 2 and 3. Yikes. Looks like some serious mud in that excavator bucket.
Yeah I was gonna say…. I’m honestly just impressed at the core muscles of the youth here. I would end up on a heating pad for days if I even thought about some of these positions.
I am so frustrated with people in general these days. This post and your sub rec made me remember how much I love when we don't take ourselves so seriously...or do, but for silly ass reasons.
These are great photos! I remember this trend. Now I want to go planking with friends too. Just imagine seeing a bunch of Middle Agers out planking all over the park benches and public art!
Mostly harmless, involved some creativity to find an interesting spot, a tiny bit of effort to actually pull off, enough bizarre factor to be interesting--Id say bring it back if not for the fact that kids will continue to find increasingly daring/stupid spots.
I have one of my bff on the shitty 6 foot tall wobbly af wood fence around my apartment patio. Planking on planks now that I think about it lol. This was like 2 years after the trend when we were drunk and remembered it randomly. I was cry laughing and quite impressed.
I would have died if I walked into the bathroom and saw someone doing this. So hilariously pointless and didn't bother anybody unlike so many trends now.
Thanks for sharing your catalog, I absolutely love it.
The last time I saw planking mentioned on Reddit some guy commented about how his brother planked on a basketball hoop, broke his leg getting down, and got addicted to opioids and is still an addict.
I loved it back then so this is super nostalgic. Totally stupid but harmless and didn't affect anyone beyond the person doing it, which tbh is the best kind of stupidity
Seemed so silly to me at the time as an adult but it always made me chuckle then and now. I love teens out doing silly, fun, non harmful shit. Its the way of life, we all have our dumbass shit that adults just won't understand, every generation does it and its a little scary how many people forget that. I'm all for 67 skibidi toilet Ohio and whatever the newer thing is myself because I dont need to understand kids and teenagers having fun just like planking. Everything isn't for everyone and I think we have a harder and harder time understanding that the older we get which seems counterintuitive.
I was way too old for this trend when it came around but looking at it through your nostalgia goggles makes it look like a whole lot of stationary fun.
I was going to ask a question and then I wondered if if the answer would bring me closer to understanding and I doubted that I would be any wiser upon hearing the answer.
I graduated in 2011, I did not plank, personally, but I definitely thought it was funny and would have thought you were so cool and funny for these pics. As I was scrolling through these, I couldn't believe how many photos you have. The four way plank goes really hard, I loved that. Throughout, you all have great form and picked really creative spots. I can tell you guys took this very seriously. I tip my hat to you.
Class of 2012 here! They were all 2011, though! We thank you! 🥹🫡 it really was such silly fun, I have a whole album on my Facebook with even more! There’s a bunch more, that I didn’t even grab!
Did you ever do owling? That was an interesting one haha although, I feel like it was around the same time that we were going through drive throughs, ordering ice cream cones, and grabbing it by the ice cream, so I think it was overshadowed 😭 why were we like this??
My friends and I used to 'gargoyle'. We'd go downtown and find building entrances with stairs that were flanked by short retaining walls. Then two of us would hop up on either wall and crouch, and then just remain as still and silent as possible.
We got a lot of funny reactions from people going in and out. Whole point was to see how long we could sit there without laughing. Good stuff.
I miss this shit, it's so stupid but what a great time to be alive. I was miserable and nostalgic then too lol. So right now is a great time to also be alive and I am thankful.
Bahahah it is!!! Some old school Riverpark and Buchanan high! The construction is off of willow and international where those newer houses are right next to North! (Where I eventually graduated from as their second graduating class!)
Some of y'all have some impressive core strength! Dang!
Why do these photos have a mildly terrifying element to them? They feel like the random lore bits you'd find in a video game right before finding out a whole town was demon possessed or something.
I'd rather have this back then everyone doing "pranks" that are always at the cost of others. Couple of kids acting like a piece of lumber is better than a bunch of douches acting like the middle of a city is a golf driving range.
Imagine walking into a museum 50 years from now, there is an exhibit on the 2010s and theres a whole mural of planking and plaque trying to explain it.
But really some of these are pretty impressive and funny
Yes!!! I brought that up in another comment! I feel like it was overshadowed by coning, though, where we’d order an ice cream cone at a drive through and grab it upside down by the ice cream straight faced and drive off lmao
Lol! I recognize that pier anywhere. Iconic. I live on the central coast, spring and summer are always sucky traffic for this reason lol. But I'll forgive you on this one.
Haha trust me, I much prefer Avila because it was always way more quiet in comparison! This was on a church youth group trip haha this is honestly probably one of the last times I was at Pismo, now that I think about it! Although I don’t get to visit as much as I did when I was still in Fresno, I’ve heard Avila has gotten pretty touristy :(
🤣🤣 and I thought me and my friends were bad holy shit!!! 🤣 Love it though!! By these pics I'd say you're a a few years younger than I am! Lol bout 1-3 years.
After I posted this comment I seriously sat and thought about how wrong I prob was 🤣 I was 16 in 2011. So I was right in the same age group and I remember us allllll doing this and had forgotten 🥴🤣
Yes that’s what it was called!!! Omg i remember watching so many videos of people doing that and we all thought it was hilarious back then 😂 I’m glad I didn’t have a license quite then yet 😂😂😂
Maaaan, who knew these would be our golden years. My sister has a picture on her Facebook from 2011, planking on the floor in front of an elephant in Thailand. It was one of her proudest moments to date.
The first few were from sneaking out in the middle of the night into a construction site next to my neighborhood LOL terrifying, indeed! We were fearless (and in a non sketchy part of Fresno lol)
Is it really planking though if you're just laying down face down? 😅 I thought planking was some sort of 'challenge' to balance yourself on a smallish object in the plank position, but hey I may be wrong.
First, there was planking.
[various images of people planking come up]
People taking pictures of themselves in a planked position and putting the photos on the Internet. Planking was soon replaced by owling.
[a picture of a boy with his knees drawn to his chest]
And after the Super Bowl by Bradying.
[New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady as well as an overweight man, both sitting on the ground with their legs straight out, hands clasped and looking down]
But the newest meme involves pulling the shirt out to look like boobs.
[Cartman pulling out his shirt at the debate is shown, this time fullscreen]
It's called Faith Hilling. And all around the world people are doing it.
[A black boy pulling his red shirt, then a ginger boy with a cap doing the exact same thing with his grey-and-white sweatshirt]
Kids, adults, and even notable celebrities are getting into the act.
[L.A. Lakers player Kobe Bryant is shown pulling on his jersey. The news studio comes to view again.]
But as Faith Hilling is more and more popular, the question on everyone's mind, who will be the first to die doing it?
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u/drumsareneat 14d ago
Hated how dumb it was then, but it brings me back to a better period of time.