Chicago, Illinois - Hundreds of people gathered in Chicago after a viral flyer campaign called for volunteers to help push the iconic Bean sculpture seven inches to the left.

On Sunday afternoon, hundreds of Chicagoans headed to Millennium Park to take part in the bizarre campaign to move the sculpture, which was designed by Anish Kapoor in the early 2000s.

Despite their admirable efforts, the crowds weren't able to achieve their goal of pushing the Bean seven inches to the left – an unsurprising result given the structure's 110-ton weight.

The attempt quickly went viral, leading many netizens to wonder why anyone wanted to try this in the first place.

The answer, of course, comes from the depths of the internet: A viral theory posits that there is a man trapped underneath – or possibly inside – the Bean.

Some theories say that a baby was placed inside the sculpture by Kapoor in 2004 and has been secretly living inside ever since.

And this isn't the first time the wild theory has broken social media containment.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker stoked the conspiracy fire in 2025 by claiming that he was "not authorized to reveal anything about" the supposedly trapped man.

"I'm not suggesting there is a man in the bean or isn't a man in the bean, but..." he teased.

The push attempt has since gone viral, with one TikTok earning well over four million likes in less than a day.

"The people yearn for community," one person wrote in the comments, while another joked, "and they said third spaces were dead."