Bubbling Is Not A Thing

July 3, 2014
VINCENT-THRICE

Ever heard of "bubbling"? If you haven't, that's okay because it's not a real thing. An Australian skater by the name of Troy West, along with his friends, have been trying to get it to go viral for years now, according to Mashable, and they apparently succeeded at tricking at least two gullible souls into falling for this completely fake thing.

When a picture was tweeted of rugby player Todd Carney pissing in his mouth, followed by a story about him being fired for his antics, two of Carney's fans tried to show solidarity by following his questionable example. When the story went viral, the original group of guys tried to make it into a thing. It's not. At all.

Troy didn’t back away from the opportunity to promote his dirty cause. “It's huge in Australia. It's part of our everyday life. My dad actually taught me how to do it when I was a kid,” he said.
But he was just having a laugh. Just like drop bears (a fictitious Australian marsupial) are not falling from the skies and we aren’t taking our pet kangaroos for a walk down here in the southern hemisphere, this revolting party trick is not a regular occurrence.
Skater John Ryder summed it up when he said it was merely a couple of “fruitcakes” causing trouble. “Yeah, this doesn’t happen in Oz at all. Maybe one or two fruitcakes, but that’s it. I skate and live in Australia, and have never heard of ‘bubbling’,” he told news.com.au.