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An email with the subject "Tic Tok Trend".
It says:
Students and Parents,
We are aware of the Tik Tok trend involving students inserting small metal objects (such as paper clips, pushpins, pencil lead, etc.) into the charging ports of their Chromebooks. This can result in creating sparks, electrical fires, and/or battery punctures, all of which can cause serious injury and damage.
After this message, if a student chooses to participate in this inappropriate behavior, the student may be charged the replacement fee for a new Chromebook. Additionally, the student will face disciplinary action in the form of out of school suspension (OSS).
We are asking for your support in speaking with your child about the dangers of this behavior, as well as reinforcing the importance of treating school-issued devices with care.
A purple button at the bottom says “View, Appreciate or Reply”, and a note underneath states “Please do not reply to this email.”
You don't need TikTok to do dumb shit, but I can see how it can be an inspiration. However, people have been poking things into holes since the dawn of time. And I don't mean sexually, although that's also true, but it belongs on another instance.
Back in the days of dumb switches, a bored colleague managed to take down the network in the whole building. While in a meeting, he played around with an Ethernet patch cable and inserted it in two adjacent network ports on the table, thus creating a loop. Good times.
I feel like tiktok has accellerated it slightly, though tiktok is something people love to hate.
If it weren't tiktok it'd be any other mainstream social media that people spread dumb trends on. Anybody remember teenagers eating laundry soap pods a couple years ago?
I could never tell if that was actually a thing, or just a meme, and that's when I knew I was now one of the olds.
It was a meme
It was a meme, but older boomers started doing it. I don't know if was related to the trend or if they just looked appetizing, but the real issue was dementia.
Yep, and people would be talking about it like they talk about tiktok.