The Rise And Fall Of The YouTube Cone-ing Trend

Cone-ing, or grabbing McDonalds' icecream cones from the icecream end, was a major trend this summer on YouTube, but now that McDonald’s employees are catching on, it looks like the cone-ing trend is coming to an end.

Have you heard of cone-ing?  Also known as coning or coneing, Urban Dictionary defines it as, “The art of grabbing a McDonalds ice cream cone from the ice cream end just to weird out the McDonalds worker.”  Cone-ing was a major trend this summer on YouTube, but now that McDonald’s employees are catching on, it looks like the cone-ing trend is coming to an end.

If you’re not familiar with cone-ing, check out the mother of all cone-ing videos below. 

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