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.
個人的な意見ですが
— ありぺー (@hcupadman) June 8, 2019
巨乳で良かったことは、
1位 食べ過ぎてお腹出てもバレない
2位 たまに抜群に似合う服がある
3位 カフェラテ飲みながらパソコン打てる
です。 pic.twitter.com/TF0FXzCOS0
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.
逆に巨乳で困ることといえばやはりおっぱいが重いことですね。
— ありぺー (@hcupadman) June 9, 2019
このように背負うことでおっぱいとカバンの重さを相殺できます。 pic.twitter.com/8gqgVfgOmj
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.
“Easy peasy” #手放しタピオカ #タピオカ pic.twitter.com/vPaxbdtsP9
— Hyde (@tabakko) June 17, 2019
https://twitter.com/ardenlolo/status/1140629605251870720
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
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.
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.
malaysia bila lagi??? agak2 jgk cbaran tuu bah.. https://t.co/020HEauAGK
— syafiq@black (@blackAlone718) June 17, 2019
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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