Civilisation, for better or worse, loves viral challenges. Remember the #icebucketchallenge of 2014? Granted, a lot’s happened since then, but it’s in your head somewhere. This year had given birth to no such phenomenon – until now.

The #condomchallenge is the edgier relative of the #icebucketchallenge on account of there being condoms involved. Condoms – as you and I know – are intrinisically linked to sex. Sex – as you and I know – is edgier than ice.

So it works like this. Grab a condom, fill it with water, step into the bathroom and drop it over a volunteer’s head. Unlike the #icebucketchallenge, when people generally shrieked for a second and reached for a towel, dropping a condom full of water on someone’s head actually makes them look like an ugly fish (see below). Funnier than simply being wet.

While this may sound like a puerile way to pass the time, its origins are reportedly rooted in promoting a good cause. According to Medical Daily, “some Twitter users have started using #condomchallenge to help raise safe sex awareness, because, they reason, if it can fit around the head on a guy’s shoulder then it can most certainly fit around the one below their waist.”

Basically, the argument ‘condoms don’t fit’ or ‘condoms might break’ as a reason for not putting one on doesn’t really work in the face of thousands of videos filling them with water to the size of melons and dropping them, unbroken, on people’s heads. It’s been going on a few days – below are some of the entries so far. First one – why is a small child being forced to do this?

This is definitely safer than the #condomchallenge of 2013, which involved people snorting condoms, something that sounds terrifyingly hard.