UPDATE ON THE ONGOING CHARLIE CHARLIE DEMON GAME
“Charlie Charlie,” a game/Internet urban legend of sudden and inexplicable popularity, surged to the top of the global social media charts this weekend after kicking around on the Spanish-language Internet for much of eternity. As of this writing, #CharlieCharlieChallenge has been tweeted more than 2 million times. More people are Googling “Charlie Charlie” than virtually any other news event.
How do you play Charlie
Step 1: Open your Vine and get the camera rolling.
Step 2: Draw an X on a piece of paper.
Step 3: Label two of the resulting quadrants “no,” and the other two “yes.”
Step 4: Place two overlapping pencils on each axis of your grid, crossing them in the middle.
Step 5: Say “Charlie, Charlie, are you there?” and ask a question. (i.e., “is one of my friends going to die soon,” “will I go to prom next May.” )
Step 6: Scream, probably.
Traditionally, this version with the crossed pencils was called the “Juego de la Lapicera” — a term that still turns up lots of creepy stuff on Google — and “Charlie Charlie” was a distinct game, played with colored pencils. At some point in their Internet and playground travels, the two games seem to have merged. In either case, both have always had demonic or supernatural connotations; one site calls
Lapicera “the poor man’s Ouija board.”
Why is it popular again right now?
It’s always hard to say exactly why these things trend, but the latest bubble seems to have begun in late April in the Dominican province of Hato Mayor, when a local TV news station broadcast a very alarmist (and unintentionally funny) report about the “Satanic” game overtaking local schools. From there, social media users in the Dominican Republic began tweeting, Instagramming and Vining about the game; by mid-May, the phrase “Charlie Charlie” was trending on Dominican Twitter, an easy jump away from the rest of Spanish-language Web.
What to do after you play the game
- You tell Charlie Charlie to scram by saying bye bye Charlie
- You visit Salvation Ministries branch at the country and state you reside in
- or You visit www.smhos.org to get a book that would increase your knowledge about demons and how to be safe from Charlie's attack.
- or Attend the 5 Nights of Glory 2021.
- or Call +2349072138639
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