Viral bro code challenge puts befuddled fellas to the test: I have no idea whats going on

Bro, no! The standard barometer for spotting a “bro” is no longer about their video gaming stats or beer-chugging abilities.Instead according to social media, the true test is to see how guys — and gals too — respond to and interact with a series of objects placed on a table, similar to what candidates poised to become the Dalai Lama do with sacred relics.If you have the proper instinct, your mannerisms will plainly prove how much of a “bro” you are to the public.The viral trend began when TikTokker and mom Jennifer Maxwell, known online as @splendidlysmittenjen, had quizzed her family by laying out an untied bread bag next to tongs, a baseball and an electric drill.At first, her elementary-aged son and daughter didn’t prove knowledge of the proper masculine mechanics, but Maxwell’s college-aged cousin proved to be the bro incarnate in a clip seen nearly 5 million times.Alas, what did he do to pass with what Maxwell called “a damn near perfect bro test score?”In lieu of plainly applying a tie to the loaf’s bag, the frat-aged fellow opted to pick up the bread and spin it around until twisted shut, grabbed the tongs and gave a dude-mandatory two pinches whilst grasping.Next, he picked up the baseball and gave an instinctive toss of it into the air, and then reached for the drill and spun it, summoning the necessary spirits to bro out with flying colors.Abstaining from the extra and athletic-like gestures is what separates the bros from the boys, per the internet.

Maxwell said he only ended up using a bread tie at her own request.The theory here is that each individual assessment scores a quarter of a person’s bro mentality.

“It’s instincts at its finest,” one person commented on the bro’s high score video.Adding a degree of credibility, one woman named Cynthia wrote back, “I have no idea what’s going on.”Since the viral video took off in late May, several reproductions of the test — sometimes with items substituted or added in...