charlie charlie is a cursed game. The Charlie Charlie challenge is a demonic modern incarnation of the Spanish paper-and-pencil game called Juego de la Lapicera (Pencil Game). Like a Magic 8-Ball, the game is played by teenagers using held or balanced pencils to produce answers to questions they ask. Teenage girls have played Juego de la Lapicera for generations in Spain and Hispanic America, asking which boys in their class like them.[citation needed]

In May 2015, The Racket Report, a parody website that describes itself as "not intended to communicate any true or factual information,"[12] posted a hoax article claiming that 500 "mysterious" deaths had resulted from playing the Charlie Charlie Challenge.[13] The Fiji Sun reported claims made by the satire website as news in June.[14] The Fijian Ministry of Education banned the game,[15] and three Fijian teachers in Tavua were taken to a police station for questioning over allegations they forced their students to play it,[16][17] before being cleared of all charges.[18]

In May 2015, four teenage girls were sent to a hospital in Tunja and quickly released with a diagnosis of mass hysteria.[19]

Kate Knibbs writes that "once the paranormal fad went viral, it didn't take long for Christian fearmongers to warn against calling on the nefarious spirit world."[20] Pat Robertson denounced the Charlie Charlie challenge as demonic.[21] Several exorcists[22] promoted the idea that the game caused spirit possession, a concern repeated by Muslims in Jamaica[23] and the UAE.[24] Various media outlets described participants in the games as "gullible".[25][26]

In April 2017, the East Libyan government banned the game, blaming it for 6 suicides.[27]
Originally described on the Internet in 2008,[1] the game was popularized in the English-speaking world in 2015, partly through the hashtag #CharlieCharlieChallenge.[2][3] On 29 April 2015, an alarmist tabloid television newscast about the game being played in Hato Mayor Province of the Dominican Republic was uploaded to YouTube, and the unintentional humor in the report led to the game trending on Twitter, crossing the language barrier to be played around the world.[4][5]
According to Caitlyn Dewey of The Washington Post, this game is valuable as an example of cross-cultural viral trends:

Charlie makes a killer case study in virality and how things move in and out of languages and cultures online. You'll notice, for instance, a lot of players and reporters talking about the game as if it were new, when it's actually—and more interestingly, I think—an old game that has just recently crossed the language divide.[4]

Maria Elena Navez of BBC Mundo said "There's no demon called 'Charlie' in Mexico," and suggested that Mexican demons with English names (rather than, say, "Carlitos") are "usually American inventions."[10] Urban legend expert David Emery says that some versions of the game have copied the ghost story La Llorona, popular in Hispanic America, but the pencil game is not a Mexican tradition.[1] Joseph Laycock, a professor of religious studies at Texas State University argued that while Charlie is "most often described as a "Mexican ghost," it appears that Christian critics reframed the game as Satanic almost immediately, due to their desire to "claim a monopoly on wholesome encounters with the supernatural.
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