When you see your broom standing in a place you didn’t leave it □□ #BroomChallenge #NASA /omj1oe2q0t Kadeem □□ not kareem or akeem February 11, 2020īut hey, at least we got some wonderful memes out of it. So NASA said brooms can stand on their own today due to the gravitational pull but this pointer broom ain’t here for it. That requires a very specific type of broom - which is why some poor people felt cheated by NASA. When you prop certain types of brooms up in just the right way, the bristles push out from the centre of the handle, forming a kind of impromptu tripod. ![]() Instead, it’s got everything to do with structural balance. It has nothing to do with the Earth’s gravitational pull, and even less to do with NASA. You can always stand (most) brooms up on their bristles. Of course, that Tweet hit the nail on the head. Is the Nasa broom thing real or have we collectively never tried standing a broom up The challenge gained moderate spread on the platform in the following weeks (examples shown below, left and right).Not everyone was duped, however, and just as the story started to trend, people realised what might be going on. On June 8th, 2019, TikTok user launched another challenge titled "Broom Challenge" which involved performing several gymnastics moves using a broom (shown below, left). A TikTok video by received over 732,300 likes and 2,900 comments in the same period (shown below, left). ![]() For example, a tweet by Twitter user received over 23,100 retweets and 67,100 likes in one day, with the video accumulating over 867,000 views. On the same day, multiple users on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok posted videos of themselves performing the challenge, with hashtags #broomchallenge and #broomstick challenge gaining popularity on all platforms. Oh my God! Yo, no strings, nothing! What? So NASA said today is the day, the only day that your broom can stand up on its own, and watch this. Okay so NASA said today was the only day a broom can stand up on its own because of the gravitational pull…I didn’t believe it at first but OMG! □□□□□ /M0HCeemyGtĪlright y'all. The tweet received over 51,500 retweets and 217,100 likes in one day (shown below), with the video accumulating over 5.4 million views. In the tweet, a video of performing the trick was attached. On February 10th, 2020, Twitter user tweeted that on that day brooms could stand upright on their own "because of the gravitational pull," attributing the claim to NASA. On February 8th, 2020, Time24 News reported on the trend, with no such claims made by NASA being discovered. ![]() ![]() In early February 2020, the false belief regained popularity on social media for example, on February 7th, Instagram user saquinhodelixo posted several photographs of brooms standing upright, claiming that NASA said that on that day the rotation of the Earth would make the brooms stand on its own. In March 2020, CNN aired a news segment about the trend, also debunking it (shown below). In February 2012, claimes that the approach of the equinox allowed brooms to stand upright gained prominence on social media. On March 17th, 1999, Snopes posted an article "Egg Balancing on the Equinox" in which it debunked the false belief that eggs and brooms can only be balanced on their ends on vernal and autumnal equinoxes.
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