Everything You Need to Know About the Charlie Charlie Challenge, This Generation’s Ouija Board

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It's time for another edition of "We Don't Understand Teenagers" followed by another installment of "Stop Bored Youths From Going on the Internet."

You may have noticed a recent trend popping up all over Vine, Facebook andTwitter called the "Charlie Charlie Challenge." It's this generation's Oujia board, combined with the Bloody Mary game, sort of.

So basically you take a piece of paper and make a cross, and you write "yes" and "no" in each corner. You then balance two pencils on top of each other in a cross form and you ask: "Charlie, Charlie are you there?" And then the top pencil is supposed to move and it freaks everyone out. If he answers "yes," you can keep asking him question like you would on an Ouija board. Apparently Charlie is a spirit of a dead boy or a demon, depending on which (fake) story you believe. You can find out more about this trend at ScaryforKids; apparently it originated in Mexico with a game called "Six Pencils."

But teenagers really just believe it summons a demon to answer their questions, so we don't think they necessarily care where the game came from.

This is the part of the article where you say in a curmudgeonly voice: "in my day, we didn't have pencils and iPhones and Vines to ask demons questions. We just had the Ouija board and one lit candle! Kids today are spoiled!"

So yeah, that's why you are seeing all those weird videos of pencils balancing on top of pieces of paper and kids screaming and running from rooms:

But at least everyone seems to have a good sense of humor about the kids of the world possibly opening up a demon portal:

People doin this dumb charlie challenge and I'm here likepic.twitter.com/8B0BQZs5ij

— :) (@Tantine_jo) May 25, 2015

how I feeling about this Charlie challenge. not today satan 🙅🏾🙅🏾😂pic.twitter.com/atBmXds4Vu

— ⚓️ (@_iAmSie) May 24, 2015

friend: are you going to do the Charlie challenge? :) me:pic.twitter.com/oW56Ss3dbR

— Bombshell Boyfriend™ (@BombshellBf) May 26, 2015

The original Charlie challenge pic.twitter.com/M2WpuEpeqp

— Thad Nelson (@ThadNelson3654) May 26, 2015

Yall thinking about doing that crazy Charlie challenge? Here's some helpful tips: pic.twitter.com/0VwKvYwFi3

— † (@GodFoundRuby) May 25, 2015

when kids start doing the charlie challenge in classpic.twitter.com/RVI8y8I3DH

— Jesse (@sexyspocko) May 26, 2015

justin probably did the charliecharlie challenge and this was the resultpic.twitter.com/jkBsszOrHv

— dijah (@trilIogy) May 26, 2015

So anyway, we tried it here at the E! Online offices. Youth of America, did we do it right?

We did, didn't we? Nailed it.