In many ways, 2014 was a easier time.
We were six years before the pandemic. The United States had its first black president. Z had not yet started to influence our fashion, so we still rocked tube jeans and ankle socks. And Gen Alpha had not yet been triggered in the skin care department in Sephora because most of them had not been born.
But even in a world in front of the Tikok, we still managed to combine myself and to film ourselves upside down for a good cause.
Which as an Ice Bucket Challenge, as it was called
Celebrities, politicians and athletes all took part and challenged each other, including Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Taylor Swift and former US President George W. Bush. (Actor Leonardo DiCaprio challenged the then Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who rejected but made a donation.)
Former US President George W. Bush takes the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise awareness of the degenerative disease and dares to do ex-president Bill Clinton.
In Canada alone, more than 17.2 million US dollars were collected between August 6 and December 31 of this year, according to the as Society of Canada, and more than 220 million dollars were applied worldwide.
And now, thanks to Tikok, together with the help of influencers, the Ice Bucket Challenge is back after 11 years. But this time it gives donations and awareness of the mental health of young people. Until Friday morning, the new Ice Bucket Challenge “Speak Your Mind” in the United States collected a little more than $ 341,000, which collects donations for the non-profit active heads in the USA.
Former NFL players Peyton Manning and Eli Manning have already participated, and so also has Today Host Jenna Bush Hager. Some of the most popular influencers from Tiktok did it, including James Charles, Mrbeast and Hayley Baylee. So far there are more than 116,000 videos with the day “Ice Bucket Challenge” on Tiktok.
For some it can lead to a feeling of nostalgia to see the ice bracket videos in their feeds. In the as -community where there is still no healing, the challenge that repeated a new matter was.
“Observe how people steal the as -Ice Bucket Challenge for a different thing when there is no remedy and is 100 percent fatal,” Brooke Eby, a lawyer, wrote a lawyer of almost 500,000 followers between TikTok and Instagram, in a video that she posted this week.
“There is a lot of other awareness of mental health on the Internet, but this was the only thing that made it aware of,” said another influencer in a TikTok video.
“I appreciate your distribution awareness of mental health, but completely cringey, as you have noted from as without responsibility.
An old challenge, a new version about it
As a Lou Gehrig disease, the late New York Yankees Ballplayer is often called Lou Gehrig. It is a progressive disease that influences the nerve cells of the brain and the spinal cord and slowly paralyzes people. After all, people lose people with the ability to go, talk, eat, swallow and breathe.
There are only a few effective treatments and no healing, notes that as Society of Canada on your website. According to the organization, around 4,000 Canadians currently live as, and 80 percent of the people who live with the illness, die from the diagnosis within about two to three years.
The as an Ice Bucket Challenge began in 2014, when the professional golfers Chris Kennedy Eiswasser let up on the head to support a family member who was recently diagnosed, according to the association. Momentum began to build when Kennedy challenged people who challenged more people, and then it started when Pat Quinn and College baseball player Peter Frates took part.
The challenge was an important moment to raise awareness of the disease and collecting donations for people who are affected by as affected, said Tammy Moore, CEO, in an explanation of CBC News. And although there has been progress in the quality of care in the past decade, Moore emphasized that there is still no healing.
“While the support of the support in 2014 was significant, it was a small part of what is necessary to fix the realities of an incredibly complex illness, life within two to five years after the diagnosis and emotionally and financially,” said Moore.
“With this in mind, we hope that people are reminiscent of the original as -Ic -Bucket Challenge campaign and support both important causes.”
Mental Health Challenge of students started
The new challenge started by students from the University of South Carolina to raise awareness of mental health and suicide prevention. Wade Jefferson, founder of the Mind Club of the university (mental illness needs to be discussed), said in a explanation last week that she was inspired by how powerful the original Ice Bucket Challenge was.
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A decade later the Ice Bucket Challenge is back, but this time with a focus on mental health.
“We wanted to bring the same energy to mental health. To see them how it started – when people we admire, like Peyton Manning, participate – are surreal.
The as -association in the United States wrote last week in a statement that it was “enthusiastic” to see the spirit of the challenge in new forms of activism, but added that it is still fatal and “we urgently need healing”.
In a subsequent post for her first viral video about the challenge, Brooke said Eby-as if she was not debating that one cause is more important than the other. But she says that it is important to remember how the challenge began – with a handful of people who have had all who have died since then.
“I love to see Colleges and students a thing,” said Eby, a Tikok video that was posted on Thursday.
“But I think exactly the same style of donation without mentioning as in which humans like me, who actively die from this disease, without hope, worry that by renaming the Ice Bucket Challenge about another thing, it will delete once when a well -known name.”
