The trend began when Twitter user @TOSUBUCK attempted to take a selfie of him high-fiving himself and uploaded the result for the world to see.
Today is the proudest day of my life. I successfully took a picture of me high fiving myself pic.twitter.com/tCZ53T5JSx
— Seth Schneider (@TOSUBUCK) October 8, 2016
And just like that, a viral trend was born. To date, over 380 thousand impressed social media users have liked his photo, which has also been shared more than 150 thousand times. Sure enough, others decided to join in on the foolishness as well. Some succeeded, albeit after a gazillion tries and with a blurry mess:
@TOSUBUCK 2828383 attempts later pic.twitter.com/tyf1YkI7nc
— Tot (@tatyaills) October 10, 2016
@TOSUBUCK pretty blurry but you can't deny it's there! pic.twitter.com/YOieJbrXQE
— Spencer Sulflow (@Sulflow) October 10, 2016
Then there are some who decided to stand out from the crowd by injecting their own posing flair into the trend:
@TOSUBUCK you started a trend @simplynautica cred to @javorus_moore found this shit on tumblr ? pic.twitter.com/dZ1rdQ4HNr
— Alexander Arammu (@isaidmissthing) October 10, 2016
@TOSUBUCK I DID IT pic.twitter.com/Hk9LUYv4Ww
— ? (@chloestephns) October 10, 2016
Some also discovered that the Selfie High Five is not as easy as merely throwing your phone into the air while high-fiving yourself:
@TOSUBUCK timing is key pic.twitter.com/w5E7ZinPMf
— Dan (@kingdan98) October 10, 2016
@TOSUBUCK @beverette17 I give up. pic.twitter.com/Z8hp9BJzq7
— Grace☻ (@grace_denbyyy) October 9, 2016
Finally, there's this dude, possibly the one with the most common sense of the lot, who realised that he could end up destroying his phone and decided to play it safe:
@TOSUBUCK ion wanna break my phone so i put a pillow but hey i still did it pic.twitter.com/TnlMi0SFcd
— Ralph (@ralph4234) October 9, 2016
Are you going to attempt this? If you are, comment with your picture!