TeenFan wrote: Fri Jan 23, 2026 1:42 pm
Youtube used to have dozens of videos of the "Habiba Challenge", when young kids in the Netherlands ran around in their underwear.
Some still can be found, but much has disappeared.
I remember those. There was one that I really liked, the kid had a paper bag over his head and was trying to find things on a store shelf, and one of his friends was behind him, you could see his hands twitching, reaching out, you can tell he really wants to pull down his friend's underwear. He never does (they get kicked out of the store before he even really gets a chance), but still fun to see that play out wondering what thoughts are going through his head while trying to decide with to pull down his friend's underwear.
Also don't forget the arms in shirt challenge. Many a Willie exposed by that one.
I miss the wild west days of YouTube. I understand that in many ways it is better and safer now. The innocence and adventure are gone. It's now all very corporate and sanitized. TikTok had a brief wild west period, but they too have gone corporate and sanitized. Oddly, the only place that still has any wild west feel to it is Instagram, but that's mainly because their censorship algorithms tend to only really work on English, so if you can find stuff in other languages, especially Asian languages it seems, the wild west is still alive.
