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The Texas and Wisconsin girls loved to dance, sing and post videos to TikTok. Their parents say they died participating in a dangerous challenge.
The blackout challenge is an internet challenge based around the choking game, which deprives the brain of oxygen. [1] It gained widespread attention on TikTok in 2021, primarily among children. [2] It has been compared to other online challenges and hoaxes that have exclusively targeted a young audience. [3]
A TikTok spokesperson told People that "this disturbing 'challenge,' which people seem to learn about from sources other than TikTok, long predates our platform and has never been a TikTok trend."
A U.S. appeals court has revived a lawsuit against TikTok by the mother of a 10-year-old girl who died after taking part in a viral "blackout challenge" in which users of the social media platform ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 February 2025. Viral Internet hoax The "Momo Challenge" is a hoax and an internet urban legend that was rumoured to spread through social media and other outlets. It was reported that children and adolescents were being harassed by a user named Momo to perform a series of dangerous tasks including ...
A year later, Todd's blackmailer reappeared, creating a Facebook profile that used the topless photo as its profile image and contacting classmates at her new school. [19] [22] Again, Todd was teased, eventually changing schools for a second time. [19] [22] She wrote that she began chatting to "an old guy friend" who contacted her.
Skullbreaker challenge – A TikTok challenge that went viral in February 2020 and spread to other sections of the internet. The challenge involves two people convincing another person to jump, and then kick their legs out, causing the person jumping to fall on their head. Several people have been hospitalized after performing this challenge. [18]
Police say a TikTok video post has led to the capture of a Florida man who was on the run for more than three years after he allegedly lured his estranged girlfriend to a cemetery where he killed her.