Brandon Kraft
Planking began to become popular in 2007
when Gary Clarkson and friend Christian Langdon created a facebook page for
their group game invented by them 14 years earlier. This was a peak time in the
rise of the facebook epidemic so anything remotely interesting that arose during
this time rapidly grew. It became popular because its hilarious first off, and
also a worldwide competition over the internet came about (not officially) of
topping someone else’s plank and creating your own image in a more extreme
setting.
Planking is an
activity consisting of lying face down —sometimes in an unusual or incongruous
location. Both hands must touch the sides of the body.
Planking developed quite slowly as the two
friends started doing it in grade school and did not hit the Internet and gain
attention until 14 years later. When they advertised it over facebook in 2007
the response worldwide was immense.
Other known variations of planking are:
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Teapotting: bending the arms into the shape of a teapot
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Owling: a person squats "like an owl"
o
Horsemanning: two
people so that they appear to be a single body with a detached head and is a
revival of a photography fad popular in the 1920s
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Batmanning:
hanging upside down by your feet
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Other ones which
have been ‘related’ although not exactly similar are in American football such
as Tebowing, Gronking and Kapernicking
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