@Cyclone_Baroness:
I'm just annoyed cause I don't like feeling forced to do stuff.
This is the aspect of these sorts of things that I've never understood. Not the sentiment of not liking feeling forced to do stuff, mind – that's perfectly understandable -- but the concept in the first place that you are somehow 'forced' to do anything.
I had this whole ice bucket challenge phenomenon explained to me about a week ago by a friend, how it was a fundraising thing, and once nominated, one had to dump a bucket of water over their head, donate money, or both. My immediate first reaction was to point out the obvious third option someone in such a situation would have: doing neither.
I don't know, it's just a sort of bizarre thing to me. If someone asks you to donate money to a cause, in general, I think just about everyone would agree that it would obviously be one's right to decline. Yet somehow, if someone asks you to donate money to a cause, or at least do some other arbitrary action, a great many people seem to instantly couch it in terms of 'having' to do at least one or the other, which is patently ridiculous to me.
Then again, I never did understand the concept behind that silly 'The Game' thing, either ("You just lost the game, haha!" "No I didn't, there is no game"), and I kind of suspect they are, in a sense, similar social memes.