A piece of toast will always land butter-down, a cat will always land on its feet.
And now there’s a new theory to add to our inexplicably long list of tossing folklore.
If you throw one of your Vans shoes in the air it will always land right-side-up. According to the infinite wisdom of the people of Twitter.
It all started when Twitter user @Ibelievthehype shared a video throwing a pair of Vans across a room, where they landed perfectly – laces-up – after flipping in every direction.
‘Did you know it doesn’t matter how you throw your vans they will land facing up,’ they wrote in the video caption.
People immediately started trying it out, filming the results and posting it on Twitter. And that is how the #VansChallenge was born.
Did you know it doesn’t matter how you throw your vans they will land facing up pic.twitter.com/nKVJCncW4H
— lana m!sses tøp (@Ibelievthehype) March 2, 2019
The tweet has now gained more than 150,000 likes and 66,000 people have commented on the video.
There are plenty of believers who swear the new theory is the real deal.
I’VE NEVER BEEN SO ENTERTAINED pic.twitter.com/kkcNyDvtpH
— Abbey Santoro (@abbeyruns) March 4, 2019
yo wtf, this Vans thing is crazy! #Vans #VansChallenge pic.twitter.com/7Y2UaB93nc
— 𝖍𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖙𝖆 𝖕𝖆𝖕𝖎 (@FilthyLouis) March 4, 2019
Had to see if it was real #vans #VansChallenge pic.twitter.com/7VSo7dLSYA
— ;) (@high_bunnys1) March 4, 2019
But as you can see from our video at the top of this article – it doesn’t work every time.
We rounded up everyone in the Metro.co.uk office who was wearing Vans and got them to go barefoot for an hour – all in the name of science.
Our experiment shows that, at best, the #VansChallenge theory isn’t consistent – it doesn’t work every time.
And there are more people on Twitter who are now helping to bust this myth.
I would like a refund please #VansChallenge pic.twitter.com/aOUsmk1Yt3
— erin (@meh_erin) March 4, 2019
Lies! #VansChallenge pic.twitter.com/vR9Z0NANLb
— ⚽FootieLife (@robertvivanco10) March 4, 2019
So maybe there’s an art to it – it might be the case that it only works if you toss your Vans in a particular way. Which is significantly less mystifying.
More data is needed – but we are pretty sure that the #VansChallenge isn’t quite the universal theory that the internet would have you believe.
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