The 'Creeper Challenge' has group chats fighting to finish song lyrics in the right order

There's nothing quite like trying to coordinate your group chat to complete any one, singular task. Even within my own friend group, on occasion it's felt like herding several semi-sentient cats with opposable thumbs just to plan a date to meet up. 

Groups chats, especially with five people or more, can be almost comically chaotic. Someone's pontificating on their crushing anxiety about the future, you put your phone down, five seconds later you've missed 50 messages, and now everyone's going on about Minecraft parody songs. 

You may not think that's relatable, but for several group chats across Discord, Facebook Messenger, and Twitter, they've attempted this exact scenario — bringing everyone together to collectively replicate the lyrics to a little Minecraft-themed ditty.  

The "Creeper Challenge" otherwise known as "Creeper, Aww Man" (for reasons that will soon become very obvious,) is based on Minecraft YouTuber CaptainSparklez's song "Revenge," which is set to Usher's "DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love." The song was released in 2011, and according to Know Your Meme, it's the most viewed Minecraft video of all time on YouTube, currently sitting at 175 million views. 

Despite its deep-rooted history in internet culture, new life has been instilled into the song with this latest viral challenge. Like a rediscovered gem in the mine, a new way to simultaneously liven up and decimate group chats everywhere began.

The rules are simple: each member of the chat attempts to type the lyrics, one by one, in the correct order. No spelling mistakes, no skipping lines of the song. If anyone messes up, the whole chat has to start over. These are Mario Kart-level friendship destroying stakes, people.  

YouTuber king posted the first widely shared video, displaying their Discord channel's attempt set to music, as well as including text-to-speech audio of everyone's responses. 

There's something about the frustration of a single person messing up a lyric, everyone dissolving into madness at the sight of spelling errors, all set to crunchy, headphone-destroying audio and text-to-speech-voiced rage that's just *chefs kiss*. The group eventually has to start over so many times that the video is 90 percent based on the first five seconds of the song — hence the challenge also being called "Creeper, Aww Man."

Others jumped in on editing their own attempts with similarly bass-boosted audio, robotic voices, and profanity-filled rage. If you don't think to yourself "big same" over these friend groups 0.2 seconds away from strangling each other over messing up that first "CREEPER" line, I don't know what to tell you.  

But why stop at just mines and creepers? Why not take our group chats back to the Old Town Road for some yeehaw-infused frustration! Many group chats began branching off to attempt the game with "Old Town Road," and the latest remix, "Seoul Town Road." This lead to a lot of autotune-d "yeeeeeeaaaaahs" and meltdowns.

K-pop Twitter took the game even further, and now it seems like most of the "Creeper Challenge" posts on Twitter don't even fully include the original song. Everything from BTS to Twice and Ateez lyrics have been used to test the bonds of friendship (and patience.) 

So give this game a try with your group chats, if you dare. Depending on how bad your chat is at working together, you may just end up lying awake at night, eyes wide open, a constant loop of "CREEPER..." in your head.