For those of you who dont know or dont understand what the reason is behind the ALS ice bucket challenge is, please read Ice Bucket Challenge Doing the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. The Ice Bucket Challenge, sometimes called the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, is an activity involving dumping a bucket of ice water on ones head or donating to the ALS Association in the United States. It went viral throughout social media during the Northern-Hemisphere summer of 2014.[1][2] The challenge dares nominated participants to have a bucket of ice water poured on their head. One common stipulation gives 24 hours from the time they are nominated to complete the dare; otherwise, the participant is asked to donate money to charity.[3] Origin The origins of the idea of dumping cold water on ones head to raise money for charity are unclear and have been attributed to multiple sources. During the Northern-Hemisphere winter of 2013–14, a challenge of unknown origin often called the Cold Water Challenge became popular on social media in areas of the Northern United States. The task usually involved the option of either donating money to cancer research or having to jump into cold water.[4] It was criticized for the danger of going into cold water unassisted. The earliest known version of this challenge was known as the Cold Water Challenge. It was started by the Sheaves For Christ division of the General Youth Division UPCI. A video dated April 26, 2014 by Amado Huizar challenges others to donate 100 dollars to the SFC Missions fundraiser or jump into cold water. Many videos followed of people dumping buckets of water on peoples heads.[5] One version of the challenge started in New Zealand on July 4, 2014, with a fundraising page on behalf of the Cancer Society to help support patients and their families through the trauma of a cancer diagnosis. As with similar challenges, it was usually filmed so footage can be shared online.[6] Play media Atlanta Falcons players, coaches, and staff take the Ice Bucket Challenge. The challenge was popularized in the United States on June 30 2014 when the Golf Channel Morning Show televised the social media phenom and performed a live on-air ice bucket challenge.[7] Soon after, on July 15, 2014, golfer Chris Kennedy did the ice-bucket challenge and challenged his cousin Jeanette Senerchia of Pelham, NY, whose husband, Anthony, has had ALS for 11 years. A day later she did the challenge while her 6-year-old daughter filmed her in front of their house. Senerchias network on Facebook connected with Pat Quinn, a 31-year-old in Yonkers, NY, who was diagnosed with ALS in March 2013. Quinn called upon his friends and family. Soon, his whole network was posting challenges, including family in Florida, friends in Ireland and Greece, and a bar full of locals, which was broadcast on local television. Local Green Bay radio and TV personality John Maino performs the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Quinns Facebook network overlapped with Massachusetts resident and former Boston College baseball player Pete Frates, who has ALS and began posting about the challenge on Twitter.[8] The ice bucket challenge has also become popular in the United Kingdom through social media, with participants doing it for the Motor Neurone Disease Association and Macmillan Cancer Support. The President of the United States, Barack Obama, was challenged by Ethel Kennedy but declined, opting to contribute to the campaign with a donation of $100.[9] Justin Bieber,[10] LeBron James,[11] and Weird Al Yankovic[12] also challenged President Obama after completing the Ice Bucket Challenge. Rules Within 24 hours of being challenged, participants are to video record themselves in continuous footage. First, they are to announce their acceptance of the challenge followed by pouring ice into a bucket of water. The bucket is then to be lifted overhead and poured over the participants head. Then the participant can call out a challenge to other people. In one version of the challenge, the participant is expected to donate $10 if they have poured the ice water over their head and donate $100 if they have not.[13] In another version, dumping the ice water over the participants head is done in lieu of any donation, which has led to some criticisms of the challenge being a form of slacktivism.[14] Legacy In the Northern-Hemisphere summer of 2014, the Ice Bucket Challenge went viral on social media and became a pop culture phenomenon, particularly in the United States, with numerous celebrities, politicians, athletes, and everyday Americans posting videos of themselves online and on TV participating in the event.[3][9] Before the popularity of the Ice Bucket Challenge, levels of awareness, fundraising, research dollars, and overall public support for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) were extremely low.[15] After the Ice Bucket Challenge went viral on social media, public awareness and charitable donations for ALS soared to unprecedented levels. On August 18, 2014, the ALS Association announced that it had received $15.6 million in donations compared to $1.8 million during the same time period (July 29 to August 18) in the prior year. These donations came from both existing donors and 307,598 new donors to the Association.[16] Pete Frates can no longer speak. But in the last two and a half weeks, a video posted on Facebook by Mr. Frates, a 29-year-old former college baseball player, has inspired people like Bill Gates, LeBron James, Chris Christie and Taylor Swift to dump a bucket of ice on their heads and speak out for his cause. The “Ice Bucket Challenge” has lit social media on fire, raising both money and awareness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. About 30,000 Americans now have the disease, which attacks nerve cells and ultimately leads to total paralysis, though the mind remains sharp. Life expectancy is typically two to five years from the time of diagnosis. The stunt goes like this: People make a video of themselves dumping a bucket of ice water on their heads, post it on Facebook, Instagram or other social media sites, and then challenge friends to do the same within 24 hours or donate $100 to ALS. (Many do both.) People have shared more than 1.2 million videos on Facebook between June 1 and Aug. 13 and mentioned the phenomenon more than 2.2 million times on Twitter since July 29, according to those sites. Donations to the ALS Association have spiked. As of Sunday, the association said it had received $13.3 million in donations since July 29, compared with $1.7 million during the same period last year. It said there were about 260,000 new donors. (With a spate of celebrities and business executives joining in over the past few days and pledging contributions, that number is expected to rise.) The Ice Bucket Challenge had been making the rounds on the Internet for several weeks before it was tied to ALS. Matt Lauer, the host of NBC’s Today Show, had water poured over his head on July 15 after being challenged by the golfer Greg Norman. Mr. Lauer said that he would donate money to the Hospice of Palm Beach County. He challenged Brian Williams, Martha Stewart and Howard Stern. In late July, Mr. Frates learned about the challenge from his friend Pat Quinn, a New Yorker who also has ALS, and wanted to turn the trend into a fund-raiser for the disease. Mr. Frates nominated himself for the challenge. Instead of having ice water poured on his head — “ice water and ALS are a bad mix,” he said on his Facebook page — he posted a video of himself bouncing his head to “Ice Ice Baby,” the 1989 hit song by the rapper Vanilla Ice. He challenged some friends, and the stunt spread quickly through Boston circles, then across the web until last week when a parade of boldfaced names joined in. (Last week, Mr. Frates again took the challenge, this time having ice dumped on his head at Boston Red Sox’s Fenway Park.) “Did we ever imagine the level of awareness or the money that is coming in? In our dreams we did,” said Mr. Frates’s mother, Nancy Frates. There has been a backlash. Some have criticized the campaign for so-called slacktivism, where people will click and post online for social causes with little actual impact on the cause. “There are a lot of things wrong with the Ice Bucket Challenge, but the most annoying is that it’s basically narcissism masked as altruism,” said Arielle Pardes, a writer for Vice. On Slate, Will Oremus urged people to take the “no ice bucket challenge” and just donate the money. Ms. Frates said that her son, the former captain of the Boston College baseball team, had been “living the life” when he called a family meeting in 2012. He revealed his illness and said that he did not want to whine, but would instead use the diagnosis as an opportunity to positively affect other people’s lives. The disease has progressed quickly in the past six months. Mr. Frates has lost the ability to move his arms and legs and now communicates through eye-gaze technology, his mother said. He was married last year to Julie Frates, whom he met eight months before he learned that he had ALS. They are expecting a baby in September. In a video last December, Mr. Frates said: “The story right now goes: You’ve got ALS, have it for a little while, a long while, but either way, the end is always the same. ALS always wins. So in order to rewrite the end of it, we need to raise awareness, money.” Notable participants JJ Abrams[19] David Alaba[20] Jessica Alba[21] Robbie Amell[22] Stephen Amell[23] Carmelo Anthony[24] Sean Astin[25] Victoria Azarenka[26] Steve Ballmer[27] Travis Barker[28] John Barrowman[29] William Beckett[30] Nikki Bella[31] Gary Bettman[32] Jeff Bezos[33] Jessica Biel[34] Paul Bissonnette[35] Jack Black[36] Matt Bomer[37] Jon Bon Jovi[38] David Boreanaz[39] JR Bourne[40] Sergey Brin[41] Chris Brown[42] David Bryan[43] Luke Bryan[44] Dez Bryant[45] Kobe Bryant[46] Osric Chau[47] Chris Christie[3] CM Punk[48] Lily Collins[49] Holly Marie Combs[50] Harry Connick Jr.[51] Tim Cook[52] Dick Costolo[53] Sidney Crosby[54] Russell Crowe[55] Kaley Cuoco[56] Shannen Doherty[50] Robert Downey Jr.[57] Drake[58] Hilary Duff[59] Kevin Durant[60] Dale Earnhardt Jr.[61] Ansel Elgort[62] Emblem3[63][64] Jimmy Fallon[65] Anthony Fantano[66] Lou Ferrigno[67] Fifth Harmony[68] Nathan Fillion[69] Darren Fletcher[70] Rob Ford[71] Jason David Frank[72] The Game[73] Jason Garrett[74] Martin Garrix[75] Bill Gates[76] Steven Gerrard[77] Ricky Gervais[78] Selena Gomez[79] Mario Götze[80] Topher Grace[81] Josh Groban[82][83] Jenna Bush Hager[84] John Harbaugh[85] Calvin Harris[86] Steve Harvey[87] Colton Haynes[88] Tricia Helfer[89] Chris Hemsworth[90] Tom Hiddleston[91] Tyler Hoechlin[92] Mark Hoppus[93] Niall Horan[94] Derek Hough[95] Bob Iger[96] Hugh Jackman[97] Lebron James[98] Bobby Jindal[99] Don Johnson[100] Dwayne Johnson[101] Adam Jones[85] Jacoby Jones[85] Phoenix Jones[102] Ethel Kennedy[9] Angelique Kerber[26] Gayle King[103] Alex Kirk[104] Jemima Kirke[105] Vincent Kompany[106] Mike Krzyzewski[107] Ashton Kutcher[108] Lady Gaga[109] Seth Green[110] Adam Levine[111] Damian Lillard[112] Dov Lipman[113] Sabine Lisicki[26] Eva Longoria[114] Jennifer Lopez[115] Demi Lovato[116] Ludacris[117] Macklemore[118] Rachel Maddow[119] Kate Mara[120] Marcelo[121] Ricky Martin[122] Gates McFadden[123] Stephanie McMahon[124] Vince McMahon[125] The Miz[126] Chloë Moretz[127] Jason Mraz[128] Elon Musk[129] Satya Nadella[130] Gary Neville[131] New England Patriots[132] Ozzie Newsome[85] New York Islanders[133] New York Mets[134] New York Jets[135] Neymar Jr[136] Bud Norris[85] Conan OBrien[137] Keith Olbermann[138] David Ortiz[139] Alexander Ovechkin[140] Diamond Dallas Page[141] Larry Page[41] Brad Paisley[142] Jim Parsons[143] Lana Parrilla[144] Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova[26] Bo Pelini[145] Missy Peregrym[146] Markus Persson[147] Troy Polamalu[148] Tyler Posey[149] Chris Pratt[150] Fatima Ptacek[151] Monica Puig[26] R5[152] Milos Raonic[153] Jerry Reese[154] Susanna Reid[155] Tara Reid[156] Emily Bett Rickards[88] Rob Riggle[65] Nicole Ritchie[21] Jake Roberts[141] Laura Robson[26] Holland Roden[157] Aaron Rodgers[158] Ben Roethlisberger[159] Seth Rollins[160] Tony Romo[45] Cristiano Ronaldo[161] Gavin Rossdale[21] Emmy Rossum[162] Mickey Rourke[163] Marissa Mayer[164] Ronda Rousey[165] Jordan Rudess [166] Katee Sackhoff[167] Horatio Sanz[65] Gabe Saporta[168] Philip Schiller[169] Jim Schmitt[170] Paul Scholes[171] Patrick Schwarzenegger[172] Robert Scoble[173] Ryan Seacrest[174] Ed Sheeran[175] William Shatner[176] Buck Showalter[85] Choi Siwon[177] Karina Smirnoff[178] Shepard Smith[179] Torrey Smith[85] Britney Spears[180] Jamie Lynn Spears[181] Tori Spelling[182] Steven Spielberg[183] Brent Spiner[184][123] Gwen Stefani[185] Phil Spencer[186] Sloane Stephens[26] Martha Stewart[187] Lindsey Stirling[188] Daniel Sturridge[189] PK Subban[190] Zoe Sugg[191] Taylor Swift[192] George Takei[193] Thalía[194] Bella Thorne[195] Tiësto[196] Justin Timberlake[197] Tico Torres[198] Triple H[199] Michael Trucco[200] Justin Tucker[85] Shania Twain[201] Carrie Underwood[202] Gabrielle Union[203] United States Mens National Basketball Team[204] Keith Urban[205] Jenna Ushkowitz[206] Wilmer Valderama[108] Iyanla Vanzant[207] Meredith Vieira[208] Diane Von Furstenberg [209] Kerry Washington[210] Heather Watson[26] Lil Wayne[211] Johnny Weir[212] Russell Westbrook[213] Dana White[214] Oprah Winfrey[215] Anna Wood[216] Caroline Wozniacki[26] Weird Al Yankovic[217] Mark Zuckerberg[218]
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