There have been plenty of trends that have done the rounds, on social media, all
across the world. It reached a point where the mannequin challenge, a viral
Internet video trend where people remain frozen in action like mannequins while
a moving camera films them, was even used as a corporate bonding exercise by
some companies.
The latest faux-fashion trend sweeping
Instagram features people making slices of watermelon look like clothes. The
#watermelondress trend on the social media platform features people of all ages
and sexes, appearing to wear clothing based on the colour of watermelon slices.
However, upon closer inspection, it is revealed that the posters of these
pictures are employing forced perspective to make melon slices held close to
the camera appear to be clothing.
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While
the trend began in May and took off in June, it reached new heights only
recently, when celebrities such as Emma Bunton, of the Spice Girls and Ryan
Seacrest jumped the bandwagon.
Café asks a few youngsters in Goa what the strangest trend that they’ve been a part of is:
Back in the day, our college futsal team wanted to stand out in
a video we were shooting. At the time, the ‘Harlem Shake’ was all the rage, so
we did that on camera. Later on though, with the band that I’m part of, I
undertook the ‘mannequin challenge’, where we would freeze on-stage, halfway
through ‘Uptown Funk’ by Bruno Mars.
REVELLINO FERNANDES
The most interesting
social media trends that I’ve been a part of were the ‘ice bucket challenge’
and the ‘mannequin challenge’. I’ve contemplated on being a part of many more
but I didn’t want to become one of those people that subscribed to everything
trending, hence I stepped back.
ASHLESHA NORONHA
I’m not that clued
into what the watermelon dress trend is about, but the craziest one I’ve been a
part of was the ‘Harlem Shake’. I was talked into it, as a group of friends
wanted to do it, just for fun. But that’s been the extent of it.
DUNSTAN DIAS
