Topic: planking

Kathie Lee and Hoda on the ‘Today’ Show Are Our First Celebrity Horsemaning Team

Kathie Lee and Hoda on the 'Today' Show Are Our First Celebrity Horsemaning Team

Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb, we didn’t know you had it in ya! This week, “horsemaning” (the new/original planking) swept the Internet and quickly became a meme. Mere days ago, no celebrities had jumped on this bandwagon — like they did with planking, owling, etc. — but now the ladies of the Today show’s fourth hour have proven themselves to be meme trailblazers. More »

Thank God Celebrities Are Speaking Out Against Planking, Even If They’re Only Joking

Thank God Celebrities Are Speaking Out Against Planking, Even If They're Only Joking

Ever since celebrities like Ellen Page and Rosario Dawson have latched on to the planking and owling movements, it’s sort of gotten on our nerves. After all, this was something that normal people started sharing over Twitter, and now stars have co-opted it. It came to a head with Justin Bieber “coneing” — that is, grabbing an ice cream cone by the ice cream. It’s like a bizarre version of the “Celebrities! They’re Just Like Us!” pages of Us and People: For some reason, the Biebers of the world want us to think they’re totally down-to-earth. More »

The Daily WTF: Introducing the Leisure Dive

The Daily WTF: Introducing the Leisure Dive

Forget planking, the photo trend of the summer is “leisure diving,” or snapping a photo of yourself posed mid-air in a position of leisure (that’s pronounce leh-zhur in this context). There’s a site called LeisureDive.com that serves as a home for the photos and even gives tips on the best ways to leisure dive. Their motto? “Live and let dive.” Sure.
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The Daily WTF: Diplo Planks an Elephant

The Daily WTF: Diplo Planks an Elephant

If you’re still blissfully unaware of the phenomenon called “planking,” well, sorry to ruin your day. Planking, also known as the “lying-down game,” is this weird thing to come out of England wherein the participant lies flat on the ground like a plank and gets someone to photograph him. That’s literally the extent of the game. Lying down, photo. Anyway, the best plank we’ve ever seen has to be this one tweeted by Diplo, who made his way to a friendly elephant and planked the shit out of him.
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