The 'Bikini Bridge' meme began as a deliberate hoax orchestrated by users on 4chan's /b/ board in January 2014. The goal was to create a fake viral 'thinspiration' trend to trigger media outrage and public obsession. By circulating photos of the gap between a bikini bottom and the hip bones when lying down, the pranksters successfully fooled numerous news outlets and social media platforms into treating it as a legitimate cultural phenomenon. Today, it serves as a textbook example of how internet subcultures can manufacture viral content and manipulate mainstream media narratives through coordinated effort.