# Bottle Cap Challenge

> A bottle-kick relay drew more than 100,000 Instagram hashtag posts.

- Owner: null
- Kind: Meme & format
- Sector: Culture (no sector)
- Seed date: 2019-06-25
- Peak date: 2019-07-04
- Spread Score: 48 (Notable, provisional), v1.2
- Mechanics: Challenge, Response chain, Remixable template, Platform jump, Brand pile-on, Controversy

## Summary

Davletchin’s bottle-cap kick passed through Holloway, Mayer and Statham. Users and brands made variants; Airapport released a game and United ITF held a competition. Billboard linked Carey’s Social 50 top-ten entry to her challenge video.

## Timeline

- 2019-06-25 — Farabi Davletchin (Instagram) — Farabi Davletchin posted a bottle-cap kick and challenged Jason Statham and other celebrities.
- 2019-06-28 — Max Holloway (X) — Max Holloway posted his bottle-cap kick on Twitter and challenged John Mayer.
- 2019-06-30 — BJPenn.com (Press) — BJPenn.com covered John Mayer’s response to Max Holloway before Jason Statham had attempted the challenge.

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Cite as: How It Spread (2026). “Bottle Cap Challenge.” Case HIS-00061. Spread Score v1.2: 48/100. Updated 2026-10-13. https://howitspread.com/id/HIS-00061