social media are currently being posted thousands of Videos where people are blindfolded. You imitate the horror movie Bird Box that is currently running on Netflix. The Portal warns.

By Marcus Schuler, ARD Studio in Los Angeles, currently Silicon Valley

It’s a grim story, which runs at Netflix: Mallorie, and their two children want to achieve what might be the last safe haven in the world, and companies must make a dangerous journey in a boat on a river. If you want to survive, you must wear a blindfold, otherwise, in danger of death. The people kill themselves. The main role of the mother plays Sandra Bullock, which initially has a very distant relationship to her two children.

The Film is a metaphor for the mother-child relationship. And the Film is that we watch less and less to each other. The Danish Director Susanne bier, who won the 2011 Oscar, led the Film Director. Was produced the two-hour strip from the Californian Streaming Portal Netflix.

mass-phenomenon Video-Posts

in the Meantime, the Film of more than 45 million Netflix users accounts to be accessed worldwide. However, there is an effect with the company from Silicon Valley has probably not expected: Under the Hashtag “birdbox challenge BirdBox challenge” to many people play the movie.

this is the reason that has published the service now issues a warning in the social media. It says: “We do not want to say this publicly: Please do not hurt you in Your Bird Box Challenges. We don’t know how the Whole thing started, but we are of the opinion that you should because of the film not in the hospital land.”

Stop Netflix can’t the mass phenomenon, apparently. Thousands of Videos and photos are currently being posted in Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. For example: A father and his two small children eyes missed bind. In the Original, perhaps the three-year-old child to be running, of all things, against a wall, filmed, apparently, by the mother. In the case of Instagram, a father shows his son in the house with a blindfold on the Dreirrad drives.

distraction from the censorship scandal?

For Netflix, the success of the Horror film at exactly the right time. Some of the media even: because it does not distract from a scandal. In the past two days, Netflix had been much criticized, because it bent the censorship conditions of Saudi Arabia and a string of Stand-Up Comedians Hasan Minhaj in the Kingdom has been blocked. The Comedian Minhaj had called in to his weekly broadcast “Patriot Act”, the Saudi crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as the mastermind of the murder of critical journalists, Jamal Kashoggi.