You Can All Stop Doing the Ice Bucket Challenge Now
The ice bucket challenge, it should be clear by now, is not about charity so much as showing your social network how charitable and fun-loving you are. And what accomplishes that more fully than donning a superhero outfit and tasering yourself into a kiddie pool?
Yes, about a week after the dump-cold-water-on-your-head-or-donate-$100-to-ALS-research viral game first reared its head on your news feed, we've reached the peak of the form. "Everything you do, I can do it better," self-styled "citizen superhero" and Gawker-styled "idiot weirdo" Phoenix Jones says at the beginning of the video above. And he's right. So let this be the end.
After a sad-looking friend dumps the water on Phoenix Jones's head, for reasons unknown to anyone but Phoenix Jones, another person shoots him with a stun gun, and he falls backward into even more water. It looks painful. But what a spectacle!
"Wow," you're thinking to yourself. "He must be really passionate about ALS." And maybe he is. He did give the requisite $100, after all. What have you done?
