VineIt's time for another edition of "We Don't Understand Teenagers" followed by another installment of "Stop Bored Youths From Going on the Internet."
You may have noticed a recent trend popping up all over Vine, Facebook and Twitter called the "Charlie Charlie Challenge." It's this generation's Oujia board, combined with the Bloody Mary game, sort of.
So basically you take a piece of paper and make a cross, and you write "yes" and "no" in each corner. You then balance two pencils on top of each other in a cross form and you ask: "Charlie, Charlie are you there?" And then the top pencil is supposed to move and it freaks everyone out. If he answers "yes," you can keep asking him question like you would on an Ouija board. Apparently Charlie is a spirit of a dead boy or a demon, depending on which (fake) story you believe. You can find out more about this trend at ScaryforKids; apparently it originated in Mexico with a game called "Six Pencils."
But teenagers really just believe it summons a demon to answer their questions, so we don't think they necessarily care where the game came from.
This is the part of the article where you say in a curmudgeonly voice: "in my day, we didn't have pencils and iPhones and Vines to ask demons questions. We just had the Ouija board and one lit candle! Kids today are spoiled!"
So yeah, that's why you are seeing all those weird videos of pencils balancing on top of pieces of paper and kids screaming and running from rooms:
But at least everyone seems to have a good sense of humor about the kids of the world possibly opening up a demon portal:
So anyway, we tried it here at the E! Online offices. Youth of America, did we do it right?
We did, didn't we? Nailed it.