Many people have dreamed of Olympic glory at some point. TikTok’s latest trend is making light of those lofty ambitions. “Sad to Announce I Did Not Make the Cut for Paris 2024,” is the hilarious trend making its rounds on the social media platform.
Over 30 million while highlighting a wonky spectacle of various athletic attempts. The template is relatively straightforward: Most videos take place at some kind of athletic facility, like a track field or swimming pool, and a jazzed-up version of the American national anthem plays in the background. Then, the subject in the video is getting ready to execute some kind of skill — then promptly, and hilariously, fails.
and begins with a video of him racing down a runway with a vaulting pole. Coaster’s clip shows him heaving forward in an attempt to clear the bar before snapping back and hitting the ground with a visceral, forceful smack. “A friend sent me one of the diving (memes), and they were like, ‘Oh, you should do this trend, but do it with that funny pole vault video that you had,’” Coaster explains to TODAY.
com in a recent interview of how he came to participate in the trend. He says the video was taken five years ago when he was in his junior year of high school. “I was starting on a new pole, and that was my first time jumping on it, actually,” he recalls.
“I was nervous going into the jump. It was a really big pole for me, and I planted too late, and the pole jumped out of the box and into the mat,.