before the mannequin challenge, planking, or the Harlem Shake, the hot meme of 1959 involved teenagers cramming as many of themselves as possible into a phone booth
While phonebooth stuffing was arguably a pretty cool meme, it went out of style by the end of the year and was replaced by “hunkerin’”, which is as boring as it sounds and identical to the modern Slav Squat:
I’m guessing this fad happened because streetcorner phone booths had just become commonplace. Before that they were only inside stores and restaurants, and probably supervised by the staff.
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