Running Butthole Challenge

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About

Running Butthole Challenge, sometimes written as the hashtag #RunningingButtholeChallenge, is an internet challenge in which participants run toward and dive on top of a camera resting on the ground while exposing their bare anus.

Origin

On June 10th, 2019, adult film star Pierce Paris tweeted^[2] a video of himself diving toward a camera while exposing his buttocks by pulling down his shorts. Within one week, the tweet gained over 4,800 likes and 1,000 retweets.

Pierce Paris @PierceParisXXX It Starts Here! P--- Industry Running Butthole Challenge! Retweet and Tag what Performer you wanna see do it next! 0:02 409K views 12:48 AM 10 Jun 2019

Spread

On June 13th, 2019, the /r/runningBholechallenge^[4] subreddit was created, which gained upwards of 12,500 subscribers over the next 72 hours.

On July 16th, Redditor dhanter submitted a post asking "What's up with videos of women jumping on cameras with their vaginas?" to /r/OutOfTheLoop,^[3] to which Redditor djsparkxx cited the /r/runningbholechallenge subreddit.

That day, Ebaum's World^[1] published an article about the challenge titled "Viral 'Running Butthole Challenge' Has Women Diving A**-First Onto Cameras." The article contained a censored version of a challenge (shown below).