You Don't Need To Understand.

Planking is like Apple Jacks cereal.  Apple Jacks don't taste like apples, but the kids don't care, they just like it anyway and the people that don't get it try to figure out why the people that do like it, like it.  It makes me feel equally smug and stupid to know that "planking" is nothing new, it's just new to the general public.  Some people get it, some people don't.  What's to get?  Nothing.  There is nothing to get from planking. Yet some people will try to figure it out, and when they don't get it, they will feel left out, and then say it's stupid. Yes, planking is fucking stupid.  That's sort of the point, I believe.

I first heard of "planking" (this is where I feel smug) back in 2009, before it was cool, before everyone was doing it.  Only when I heard of it, it was just called the "laying down game."  From what I understood, you lay down face down in what would appear to be an uncomfortable position, or perhaps even a very unusual place to be laying face down,  and then have someone take a picture of you doing it.  That's it.  Why?  Why not?  So when people are still doing it two years later, now it's "the stupidest thing ever," because you tried to figure out why these people, perhaps even friends of yours, are laying face down in pictures.  There is no fucking reason.  If someone gives you a reason, they're bullshitting you.

I knew that this would happen, maybe not with "planking" but in general.  This is how it works, okay?  The internet comes up with something stupid that makes a few people laugh, then it makes other people laugh because the original people that laughed at it shared the lulz with their friends.  Eventually the idea gets shared around enough that it makes it into the general population, every day life, and someone will not understand what makes it so funny to everyone.  Most people won't get it.  They just don't get stuff.  Is planking stupid?  You bet.  Is it funny?  Absolutely.  I think the people that rally against planking are just as stupid as the people doing it but the only difference is that the people doing it are doing it to make someone (even if it's themselves) laugh.  The person that hates it does so because he or she doesn't get it.    They say "but it's stupid!"  Yes, that is the point.  It's fucking stupid and weird and unusual to see someone laying inside of a jet propeller.  End of story.  End of blog post, too.