Avengers Assemble Pool Challenge

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Avengers Assemble Pool Challenge is a series of videos originating on TikTok of several or more people emerging from a pool and landing on the deck in a pose similar to an Avenger such as Black Panther, Thor or Captain America set to the Avengers Theme. The video which is made by using a reverse playback feature is set to the Avengers theme song.

Origin

On August 18th, 2019, TikTok user @aaaawwwwuknow uploaded the first Avengers Assemble TikTok pool video (shown below). The video gained over 114,100 likes and 13,200 shares in two months.

Spread

On September 13th, 2019, TikTok user @bigguardbell uploaded an iteration that gained over 33,800 likes and 2,500 shares in a month (shown below, left). On September 21st, TikTok user uploaded one of the most popular variations which accumulated over 952,700 likes and 40,800 shares in three weeks.

The trend migrated to Twitter. On September 25th, Twitter user @joshuaSalva uploaded another version which garnered over 11,400 likes and 2,300 retweets in two weeks (shown below).

On October 6th, 2019, professional diver Daniel Goodfellow and fellow professional divers (Jack Laugher, James Heatly, Matty Lee, Yona Knight-Wisdom, Lucas Thompson, and Noah Williams) uploaded their own attempt to TikTok (shown below). The video gained over 1.4 million likes and 81,700 shares in four days.

Various Examples

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