Season 8 Ep 6: The WORST Viral Internet Challenges
From FratChat Podcast by Carlos Garcia and Chris Moore
March 17, 2026 · 1h 37m · Season 8 · Episode 6
About this episode
The hosts count down the Top 10 Worst Viral Internet Challenges and discuss listener emails and current news topics.
On this episode of the FratChat Podcast, we’re counting down the Top 10 Worst Viral Internet Challenges the internet has ever produced. The internet gave humanity unlimited knowledge, instant communication, and the ability to learn almost any skill imaginable… and we used it to invent challenges where people eat laundry detergent, inhale cinnamon, blindfold themselves in public, and literally pass out for views. From the dangerously stupid Blackout Challenge and the injury-causing Skull Breaker Challenge, to classics like the Tide Pod Challenge, Cinnamon Challenge, and the chaotic Milk Crate Challenge, we break down the viral trends that made the entire internet collectively look like it lost its mind. Some were painful, some were embarrassing, and a few were so dangerous that doctors and news networks had to publicly beg people to stop doing them. We also hit some of our favorite FratChat segments, including Emails From the Listeners, where a listener asks if having a joint bachelor/bachelorette party is basically asking for relationship disaster after hearing about Dak Prescott’s canceled wedding, and another listener who picked up laundry from a wash-and-fold service… only to…
Topics covered
- Viral Internet Challenges
- Blackout Challenge
- Skull Breaker Challenge
- Tide Pod Challenge
- Cinnamon Challenge
- Milk Crate Challenge
- FratChat segments
- listener emails
- Jeffrey Epstein investigation
- ROTC cadet news
Keywords
- internet trends
- dangerous challenges
- comedy podcast
- society
- culture
Mentioned in this episode
Products: laundry detergent, cinnamon
Books & works: Emails From the Listeners
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