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Hit that like button and let's just jump into it. And the first thing we're gonna talk about today is challenge accepted, which if you haven't seen is the new viral trend.

It involves women posting black and white photos of themselves, with the captions usually involving some sort of message about empowerment or the importance of women supporting other women.

And a ton of people have taken part from everyday folks all the way to Olivia Munn, Kristen Bell,

Chloe Kardashian, Florence Pugh, Jennifer Lopez, Demi Lovato, just to name a few.

It's just a huge trend right now there are over 5.5 million posts using the hashtag challenge

accepted. The question that popped up with this trend is where did it come from, right? What prompted this? And that is actually a pretty good question because the roots of this

challenge have actually kind of gotten lost and it's unclear exactly what sparked this. You had some

pointing to AOC's recent viral speech where she condemned the sexist remarks made by representative

Ted Yoho about and to her. Others thinking it's just a lighthearted way for women to uplift one another.

And most recently you have a lot of people paying attention to this hashtag because you have people saying that it stems from Turkey,

where women are posting black and white photos to raise awareness for the high rates of femicide in the country.

And we will touch on this later, but right now it is actually worth noting that while that is an important topic,

this viral trend appears to be separate from it.

Right, you had New York Times reporter Taylor Lorenz saying that Instagram actually confirmed to her that the resurgence of this challenge in the United States is actually unrelated to the trend in Turkey.

Also saying that versions of this trend have actually been spreading since 2016. In the past has been used to raise awareness for cancer or just spread positivity in general.

With Lorenz actually discussing this matter further on TMZ Live saying that this version is kind of just a hollow trend that overall is acting like a form of female empowerment

while actually doing nothing to empower women.

You know, just posting, wow, I'm, you know, posting this beautiful photo of myself to support

other women. That doesn't actually do anything to, you know, move women forward or actually

advocate women. You know, it's not highlighting impressive women.

It's not helping your company hire more women.

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