Balancing Coins On Your Collarbone Is The Newest Trend To Come Out Of China

The latest body-shaming trend is fresh out of China, where girls have started using small change in an effort to prove how slender they are. The challenge is to balance as many coins as possible on your collarbone.

The strange fad is at the top of a growing list, which includes holding a coke can between your boobs, the belly button challenge and it’s antidote, #BoobsOverBellyButtons.

Thankfully, this the fad seems to have been contained within China. However, it is a growing trend and in 24 hours received 34 million hit on Weibo – the Chinese equivalent of Twitter.

Apparently, the more coins you can fit the healthier you are. Though personally I would argue that being able to hold a high value of loose change behind your collarbone is probably a sign that you’re underweight rather than healthy.

Needless to say, there has been an inevitable backlash from those who say that this fad is not only making thin women feel good about themselves, but also making larger women feel uncomfortable.

A lot of the photos don’t actually include the face of the subject, which is a pretty sure sign that these girls girls know that what they’re doing is likely to upset people. After all, it’s fads like these that perpetuate the myth than skinny is healthy.

Hopefully this fad will die out pretty quickly. A least quick enough for no one to get me to do the collarbone challenge. I have neither the figure nor the money. And if it somehow managed to pass you by, check out the belly button challenge which is taking South Korea by storm.