Summary

Susan B. introduces the Target Dress Challenge, a humorous fashion trend from the Backyard Chickens Facebook group, and encourages Medium users to participate by sharing their own comedic takes on the prairie dress theme.

Abstract

The article titled "The Target Dress Challenge" under the section "FUN AND GAMES" discusses a lighthearted and viral fashion challenge that has emerged from the Backyard Chickens (BYC) group on Facebook. The challenge, which involves wearing and accessorizing a specific style of dress available at Target, has caught the attention of Susan B., a comedy writer with diverse interests. Despite not being professional comedians or comedy writers, members of the BYC group have been posting their takes on the challenge, leading Susan to ponder if the Medium community could elevate the comedic value of the trend. She invites readers to join in by sharing their own funny stories and photos, tagging her and others to spread the fun on Medium and Twitter. Susan reflects on her personal history with prairie dresses, considering the irony of participating in the challenge given her background, and signs off by inviting readers to engage with her in the "Garden" on Medium.

Opinions

Susan B. finds the Target Dress Challenge amusing and believes it has potential for satirical humor.
She appreciates the creativity of the Backyard Chickens community in embracing the challenge, despite their lack of professional comedic background.
Susan is enthusiastic about the opportunity for Medium users to contribute to the challenge and raise the bar for comedic content.
She humorously notes the challenge would be even funnier to her personally, given her history of wearing prairie dresses during her childhood in Pennsylvania.
Susan B. sees the challenge as a potential source of joy and fun for participants, especially during the pandemic.

FUN AND GAMES

The Target Dress Challenge

No One’s Talking About This on Medium — Yet

Thanks Awesome Screen Shot for being awesome. Screen shot from Susan’s computer, from the BYC group on facebook. The owner encourages you to join! BackYardChickens.com. It’s cheep therapy.

Y’all know I love a good writers’ prompt. So here’s something casual — the first of 2021.

Sometimes, things pop up in front of me that seem so hilarious, that I can’t even imagine what the initiators were thinking. And then I can’t seem to get them out of my head.

I belong to a huge variety of Facebook groups. Among some of my favorites are the Harry Nilsson group, The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Group, and The Backyard Chickens (BYC) group.

My interests are eclectic.

Over the past several days, I’d seen the photos from the #targetdresschallenge drift by on my feed from the Backyard Chickens group.

I didn’t think much of it, other than that the photos looked cute.

This morning, I stopped to study it more closely, given that someone threw down a gauntlet that said, “I guess not a lot of people are doing the Target Dress Challenge.”

I do love a good challenge.

I quickly went and searched for the hashtag on facebook. Found all the posts, and took a quick video. For use in this post.

Some of these are hilarious. My favorite post comment is “Target has decided if we’re going to suffer a pandemic, we might as well look like we just lost the farm after locusts ate our crops.” I love the idea of satirizing a fashion idea.

But these are chicken people. Not comedians. Not comedy writers.

I wondered, can we raise the bar?

I then went to my Medium main page. Not a single person has posted about this silliness.

There is a window of opportunity here! So maybe we should take it.

Write a funny story. Get your best prairie dress on and do your own photo shoot. Accessorize! Tag me and others to play along. If Marla Bishop and Don Feazelle grab ahold of this, pray for Medium. Pray for Twitter.

Might be just the fun you need this week?

I think I ditched all my prairie dresses when I started working for IBM. This whole thing would be even funnier if I hadn’t actually grown up in Pennsylvania wearing these dresses.

May have to go shopping at Target.

Susan B. has been writing comedy for about 6 weeks.

She is a serial entrepreneur, writer, editor, poet and ship captain. Come find her in the Garden.