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This bubble tea challenge is a balancing act

It’s already inspiring a lot of fan art.

Photo of Siobhan Ball

Siobhan Ball

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Coming from Japanese Twitter where it’s quickly gone viral, the Hands-Free Bubble Tea Challenge features women, and some men, trying to drink from a cup balanced on their cleavage.

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The challenge came from a video posted by model @hcupadman featuring her using both hands on a laptop while drinking from a cup cunningly lodged between her cleavage. In the tweet, she cites balancing the tea as one of the advantages of having large breasts.

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People quickly responded by putting up their photos showing them balancing bubble tea and other objects on their chest.

https://twitter.com/mk7318/status/1137977453102583808

https://twitter.com/iamMhuayGG/status/1139991513826385920

Though it wasn’t originally intended as a poorly disguised way to brag about breast size, it does seem to have picked up overtones of that when it morphed into a challenge. However, unlike previous “ideal body” challenges like the pen challenge and the “bikini bridge,” a lot of the entries came in artistic form.

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https://twitter.com/ardenlolo/status/1140629605251870720

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https://twitter.com/H2SO366/status/1140316255200501760

https://twitter.com/DuDuLtv/status/1140478525276925952

Some people are even posing dolls in the hands-free position.

https://twitter.com/puppy52/status/1140044899443548160

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https://twitter.com/BeeOes/status/1139930955890614272

One of the early propagators of the Hands-Free Bubble Tea Challenge, @Strangestone—who is the artist behind the previously viral Tawawa challenge, where women balanced phones and then later other objects on their breasts—produced a sketch of it, which may be why others are responding with their own art.

https://twitter.com/Strangestone/status/1137884798913921024

This gives it a lighter, and healthier, vibe than those other body-related challenges, though of course there’s still an element of mockery aimed at the women who can’t play.

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https://twitter.com/JDCortes711/status/1140275065650581504

The challenge is striking big in the Philippines, a country that loves bubble milk tea, as well as Malaysia.

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https://twitter.com/judyannebisyosa/status/1140641497584472069

Given the fad for bubble tea in the west, it’s only a matter of time before the challenge makes it over here, too.

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