Wednsday night, five teenagers fell to their death in the Chernobyl exclusion zone while attempting to take “Skywalking” photographs. A sudden gust of wind swept them off their incredibly unstable perches and all the teens died without even getting their 15 femtoseconds of precious Internet fame.
A quickly growing “Mothers Against Skywalking” group has formed on Facebook, demanding that “Skywalking” be outlawed. Police have stepped up patrols around popular Skywalking locations, arresting teenagers just for loitering nearby.
The recent “extreme planking” meme continues to produce fatalities, and the rise in “Skywalking” popularity will only mean more meme-deaths. Parents are advised to educate their children about the pointlessness of internet fame.
Areas strongly affected by radiation have seen a surge in erratic and self-destructive internet attention-seeking behavior, as reported last year in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.
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They probably found something the Russians didn’t want the world to see and called it an “accident”.