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"Hey guys, it's your boy chazz, here's a fun challenge you can do with your friends. Rob a bank."
Makes me wonder how hard it'd be for the company that runs TikTok to identify and promote dangerous trends like this. Turn up the dial to cause a little chaos, interfere with schooling, do some economic damage and maybe even injure or kill some people if they're lucky.
Kids are dumb^1^ enough on their own. While I'm not ruling out the idea that these things come about organically, there's a lot of information we're missing which could explain why their content moderation seems selectively ineffective in these areas.
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Not to say adults are automatically smart, we have plenty of examples to show where that assertion would fail. Teenagers are still mentally developing and (ideally) learning what it means to be responsible and have consequences for their actions.
Yeah, I mean, I don't remember ever hearing about challenges like this before tiktok was a thing. There were dumb challenges that could have potentially been dangerous or harmful, but none of them seemed intentionally dangerous or harmful. Tiktok, on the other hand, seems like one challenge after another intended to cause harm and chaos. Combine that with claims that the Chinese version is the polar opposite in terms of trending content and it's not hard to see why some people believe there's a CCP conspiracy to make westerners look like degenerate idiots.
That said, while I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case, I'm not convinced that it isn't actually the result of the Chinese credit system. It could easily be explained that way because the system is going to encourage people to only document and share actions and events that align with the system's ideals. The result is that Chinese tiktok will naturally look a lot less chaotic and troll-y.
However, it's still pretty suspicious that they have no issues with being able to ban people livestreaming for profanity but have issues with stopping blantant bigotry and challenge trends designed to cause harm, property damage, and general chaos.
I don't think they were done as challenges, but I remember multiple fake bomb threats when I was in high school in the 90s. Probably kids wanting to get out of tests.
It didn't help that there was an outdoor phone booth right at the front of the school, convenient for calling it in.
It's definitely not something that TikTok invented as your example shows, just seems possible that the amplification could be deliberate. I see it like pushing somebody on a swing where you only need a little extra force at the right time in the cycle to get a desired result.
Even if it weren't originally deliberate, once these things start they obviously don't try very hard (or maybe at all) to stop it. Stuff like TikTok and Facebook are cancer.
You didn't hear about challenges before tik took because before that they were called dares and were things that people did in person on a small scale. The whole "tik tok challenge" billshit is just the name dares got because it was through a new medium and people love naming things in the least logical way possible.
I remember when hazing was a thing and there was a scandal because a teenager got sodomized with a broomstick.
BROOMSTICK HANDLE
HOCKEY STICK HANDLE
I agree mostly, but the cinnamon challenge and the chubby bunny challenge were a thing years before tik tok was released. People have been posting themselves doing dumb things online to follow trends for a pretty long time.
I agree that it could totally be a possibility, though. I just don't want to give tik tok undue credit.
Like it really takes a conspiracy to show Americans are degenerate idiots...
Nah that's a legitimately crazy stupid conclusion. The kind that your grandma makes and thinks computers are taking over the world. America is rotten to it's core. TikTok just holds up a mirror and shines a floodlight at it so you can consume more of that chaotic American juice.
I don't need a Chinese surveillance application to show me how fucked society is. I live and see it weekly. It'd be daily if I left the house more.
To the CCP, it'd be a feature, not a bug.
Yeah, that's pretty fucking stupid of those kids. I don't think the charge is actually fitting, but they need to face some sort of repercussion for that.
TikTok challenge
I haven't even read the article and I do not need to, anyone dumb enough to do a TikTok "challenge" gets their stupid reward.
I wish I was having as much fun as these stupid kids