There are several challenges which takes all over the social media and it all comes from TikTok and one such challenge which is doing round these days is don’t leave me challenge which welcomes all the hilarious puns in it.
There were other challenges like wipe it down challenge, the Vogue trend, play date which took all over the web and were harmless.
In this don’t leave me challenge netizens are bringing up their word play that is very dry but includes humour in it.
The Don’t leave me challenge begin from an Instagram post from Josh Alfred, an entertainer from Lagos, Nigeria, who originally posted back in March.
“I was just playing around with the word ‘leaf’ and ‘leave’ in my pun skit,” he told BuzzFeed News. “At the end of the video, my hype man Bello Kreb was shouting ‘Don’t leave me’ and that’s what people heard and picked it up.”
What is the “Don’t Leave Me” challenge?
You probably hate bad jokes as much as the next person, and the “Don’t Leave Me” challenge is all about bad jokes. If you’ve got an arsenal of dad jokes and horrible puns you’ve been sitting on, this might be the challenge for you.
The whole point of the challenge is to share a pun or equally horrible joke and follow it up with “don’t leave me” as you run away from the camera. It’s the typical reaction you’d expect out of anyone who tells a bad joke — it’s just been turned into a trend on the internet.
How to participate in Don’t leave me challenge?
Step 1: You need to make a pun before running away in the video.
Step 2: Start the video, make a pun with the use of two words, before getting up while running away from the camera.
Step 3: All you need to play word trick like, putting a nickel on your back and calling it “Nickelback,” throwing a stick of butter in the air and calling it “butterfly,” and placing a watch on a table, calling it “timetable.”
The hashtag #dontleavemechallenge has over 77 million views on the app, but users are recreating the trends on other platforms, including Instagram and Twitter.
Similar to the videos on TikTok, these creators continue to tell bad jokes before running away, prompting their friends to say “don’t leave me.” Some even turn the jokes into comedy sketches, catering more to the comedic tone of Instagram and Twitter.
