How did Ariana Grande manage to stay balanced on that stool and still look hot? Did she really ever sit on that stool? BuzzFeed producer Jesse McLaren put the iconic My Everything pose to the test on Sunday (Oct. 15) and the internet can’t get enough.
I’ve done the research and there’s no way her ass is sitting on that stool. pic.twitter.com/AIGNpcJn6G
— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) October 15, 2017
Twitter put the scientific method into action and called out discrepancies between McLaren and Grande’s attempts, including the ponytail that “balances everything out.” Bottom line: challenge accepted and there were no shortage of people willing to test their core strength, incluing Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas, who tweeted “NOOO… I’m donneeee” at McLaren’s ponytail selfie.
Nice try. pic.twitter.com/suAW82a8Q9
— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) October 15, 2017
NOOO… I’m donneeee
— Gabby Douglas (@gabrielledoug) October 16, 2017
McLaren tweeted, “the plot thickens,” when he was tweeted the outtake shots from the original My Everything photo shoot, which could possibly prove that she did, in fact, sit on that stool.
Grande eventually replied, but didn’t give away the mystery behind the shot. Is this a task for Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman? Grande seemed to think so.
next week on mythbusters https://t.co/1tgyXtfyC6
— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) October 16, 2017
McLaren was all too excited to finally have the singer in on the Twitter action. He quote tweeted her reaction a few hours later, captioned “ME: (to my future child) ‘The day you were born was the second best day of my life.'”
McLaren continued to enjoy the outpour of attention on Twitter, retweeting other users’ attempts at recreating the pose. He even embraced the easy jabs, including one particular gem, “She’s lean and nimble, you’re large and clunky. That’s why she’s the superstar.”
Read through a few more of the hilarious reactions from Twitter below.
But did you subject your results to a committee of your peers? Were the experiments run in a controlled, double-blind environment?
— Nick Herrgott (@NTHerrgott) October 15, 2017
@walkerkaplan jet fuel can’t melt stool beams
— Charlie Kaplan (@ciwk) October 16, 2017
Actually, if you could see behind her the stool looks like this pic.twitter.com/UQA48riHoG
— Michael Benjamin (@mfbenji) October 15, 2017
Some sort of anti-gravity going on in this picture. Finding it’s source could change mankind.
— Dark As Vim (@AardvarkRatnikk) October 16, 2017
Me trying to figure out how @ArianaGrande did that pic.twitter.com/LC8nJ9Gb6D
— Ethan Alexander (@EthanAlexIndie) October 16, 2017
hard to control for variables like stool size but i think it’s real pic.twitter.com/gWMKgC5gvW
— Michael Greg–ry (@schmoyoho) October 17, 2017
pretty hurts. I remade it because I strive for perfectionist pic.twitter.com/msiz4AIVPD
— kenny– (@Slhut) October 16, 2017