Extreme phone pinching is the strangest trend of 2015

Back in 2013 there was the Harlem Shake. In 2014, we had the Ice Bucket Challenge. Since then, social media trends have taken a bizarre turn, via some goats.

Extreme phone pinching is the latest trend sweeping social media networks, and it involves holding your expensive phone over perilous locations.

The only rule appears to be that you can only hold onto your gadget using only your thumb and forefinger.

Photos and videos have been flooding the internet of phone users dangling their precious handsets over cliffs, toilets and drains.

The bizarre trend was started by American musical duo Twenty One Pilots back in July, with a video of them phone pinching video racking up 250,000 hits.