Why challenge videos are popular
Posted by Josh Taylor / March 20, 2018
We’ve all seen them before: someone tries to eat five saltines in a minute, or eat a teaspoon of cinnamon, or eat God only knows how many ghost chilis. Why do people put themselves through these things, film them, and then put them on the internet? And why do they seem to go viral? It has a lot to do with the stages of development of the human brain, according to scientists. Teenagers are especially susceptible to these challenges because their brains aren’t finished developing.
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