If you are one of those crotchety people who believe the kids these days are somehow less inspired than generations before, then I come bearing new evidence: Even their superstitions are lamer than ours!

“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 1.6 million times. More people are Googling “Charlie Charlie” than virtually any other news event.

What’s all this about?! Below, our no-nonsense explainer for the old/unimpressed.

How do you play Charlie Charlie?
Simple! You could, if you wanted, even do it at your desk.

Step 1: Open your Vine and get the camera rolling. (If you don’t have Vine, you ARE too old for this.)
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.

Where did this come from?
While it’s hard to pin down an exact country of origin, Charlie Charlie (also spelled Charly Charly) has a long history as a schoolyard game in the Spanish-speaking world. According to one seven-year-old Yahoo! Respuestas thread — that’s Yahoo Answers to you — kids have played a version of the “classic game” in Spain for generations.

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.

Meanwhile, over the weekend, a 17-year-old girl in central Georgia Instagrammed her game and slapped it with the hashtag #CharlieCharlieChallenge. That hashtag was, apparently, all the kids needed: It’s been tweeted 1.6 million times since then.

Who is Charlie, anyway?
Per various corners of the Spanish-speaking Internet: a child who committed suicide, the victim of a fatal car accident, or a pagan Mexican deity who now convenes with the Christian devil. The Mexican deity bit, at least, is demonstrably untrue.

“There’s no demon called ‘Charlie’ in Mexico,” said Maria Elena Navez of BBC Mundo.

Is this as dangerous as some of the other viral teen challenges going around?
Given that no one’s setting themselves on fire, inhaling a caustic substance or deforming their lips, Charlie Charlie looks … pretty harmless.

That said, according to popular legend, Charlie haunts players who fail to say goodbye before they close out of the game. And there are, predictably, a whole lot of people who don’t love the kids-summoning-demons thing.

Why should I care? (Should I even care?!)
I mean, you should definitely care if you’re seeking supernatural answers to your life questions. (Excepting questions about love, death and money, which — per certain versions of the legend — Charlie will not answer.)

Even if that doesn’t exactly describe you, though, Charlie makes a killer case study in virality and how things move in and out of languages and cultures online. You’ll notice, for instance, a lot of players and reporters talking about the game as if it were new, when it’s actually — and more interestingly, I think — an old game that has just recently crossed the language divide.

This is also, pretty notably, yet another example of the power of the teenage Internet. Write off their little games as silly, sure — but we never trended “Bloody Mary” or “Ouija board.”

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/05/26/the-complete-true-story-of-charlie-charlie-the-demonic-teen-game-overtaking-the-internet/%3foutputType=amp

I am not one to believe in demons and superstitions...I think there should be a scientific reason why the pencils move.

Well after viewing a video on YouTube, explaining the Charlie Charlie game,I came to a discovery that it just an air trick ....nothing demonic as I have deduced before hand...so no cause for alarm

Post in Religious section so atheist can try it and confirm God existence

Why do I care ? It will come and go ...

If you think Charlie Charlie is demonic then you are an idiot.
Those people are just blowing the pencil.
You don't know this because the camera is on the board.

passengar:
I am not one to believe in demons and superstitions...I think there should be a scientific reason why the pencils move.

Find out and let us know

What is Vine?

Ishilove:
What is Vine?

I dunno Vive but I know vineyard. Na Like garden
For example, i can say "ishilove, can you come to my Vineyard tonight?"

But I think the vine you're asking is a social networking short-form video hosting site where users could share very short minutes video

Ishilove:

Find out and let us know

Ouija.

Ishilove:
What is Vine?

An app and website where you could post very short and looping videos.

anochuko01:

I dunno Vive but I know vineyard. Na Like garden
For example, i can say "ishilove, can you come to my Vineyard tonight?"

Haha

But I think the vine you're asking is a social networking short-form video hosting site where users could share very short minutes video

Thanks. So many new platforms these days

naptu2:


An app and website where you could post very short and looping videos.

Never hoid of the woid...until today

Ishilove:

Never hoid of the woid...until today

Which means that you only heard about it after it ceased to exist.

Let me try it and see

If i catch de developer of dis rubbish,na em go get my first 2021 slap

How is it demonic?

And here you guys go again...

To you, everything is 'demonic'.

What could be so 'demonic' about a mere game?

This is not even an issue...

I go try that shit to know wether Buhari value en cows pass Nigerians, and if yes- Kotonou ya

Charlie

Truly, JESUS is coming very soon, Repent!!!
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Christians that don't want evil destroyed because of some deceptive Verses they used to enslaved them should use their Brain for once. The docile sidonlook cowardly mentality of Christians was engineered by Satanists that mixed up with early Church and deceitfully became the "Church Leader" They have no iota of Love or Loyality to YAHWEH or JESUS His Son, they are loyalty and duty is to sever Satan. The Vatican was built on ancient Shrine of Sapent Worship, you don't believe it? Pls, don't see this as insult but as a sincere Advice from a fellow Brother in YAHSHUA our MESSIAH who told us that the Spirit of AntiChrist was already in the World even as at when the LORD was here as human. Pls use your Brain for once and think: Can someone that is NOT a full Time AntiChrist and Agent of Satan put up Idol of demonic goddess Diana, disguise it as Holy Mary and deceive Christians to be bowing for it?! Roman Pope still rules the World, he's AntiChrist Gay that supports Homosexuality (Homosexuals call themselves DragQueens=DragonQueens) and even blew his last cover as a merciless Murderer recently, when he came out to openly support abortion by saying people should take that violently slaughter aborted Babies Vaccine into their body. You need to see the recorded X-Ray Video of an 8months old baby whriting in excruciating Pains as the murderous Doctor cuts his hand, dashed the killing Tool into his stomach, etc. Foetus is a Human Being! If you were aborted, you shall not be here to read this! Ask yourself: so no other way to cure Corona Virus without forcing Christians to become guilty of Murder?! Madagascar, Senegal and many Countries are now CronaVirus Free without a single Vaccine. But senseless gullible People that don't want to use their God-given Brain would still look for a Reason to submit their throats to their Enemies and the Enemy of their God.

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being Part of the Body of MESSIAH. Angel of Darkness masquraded as Angel of Light, many deceived Souls are in Hell right now, they were deceived to see nothing wrong with adding something else to the Worship of the CREATOR of Humanity.

HOLY SPIRIT has woken us up to the Truth, Nineve Christian Generation rose up against Evil and purge their World, and the Prophesy of Doom against their Generation was reversed.

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Would you be sincere enough to accept this Truth by HOLY SPIRIT and Free yourselves from mental slavery where they have tied you down for so long? JESUS the Son of YAHWEH shall come and Judge every Christian that allow the twisted Letter Bible to kill and enslave them, that deceive them to allow Satanists to take over and sodomize their children and future Generations. YAHWEH the CREATOR of Heaven and Earth a just God! HE is the eternal Owner of the Earth, and those that rejected their CREATOR have no right to want to enjoy His Creation, but HE only destroys such after giving them so long enough Time to repent. Thank you JESUS YAHSHUA HaMashiach! HalleluYAH!!!!!!!

Very Yeye game. Anybody that is over 18 and plays this game and expects to see a pencil move should sit down in the bathroom, On the Shower, make water beat your head well whether if e revive your sense.
Once a person calls the charlie charlie trash, he or she blows the pencil silently or someone else off camera.
If na you be charlie charlie, you go craze come Naija?
Charlie charlie kor, Opeyemi Opeyemi ni

Na wa o

I followed the trend with so much disbelief.

And as the normal me would do, i said to my self - self? Why not try it and see?

It struck as a wonderful suggestion, so I went out and got pencils and paper.

I needed to know the mystery behind the moving pencils.

I started by shutting my door, then i proceeded.

I called the name 'charly charly' are you there? Three times and not a single answer or reply.

I decided to try one final time and...

Damn! It answered. I still had doubt, i felt something maybe the breeze from my mouth had effect on it.

I needed an answer, so I asked that he prove it.

My pair of trainers started moving towards me unaided.

I opened the door and ran for my dear life. I'm still in the hotel room where I crashed last night.

Please how can I get a strong man of God?

Charlie nko..chaliee ni....Get an expert graphics designer for your graphics project... Check my signature for more details

Abeg mk i go play

Demonic ko.... Dominic ni

Wahala for who go play this nonesense demonic game sha... Charlie Charlie
Charlie my friend

I don't even understand the game sef

Aa