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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]
The "blackout challenge" was one of the most dangerous trends to hit TikTok back in 2021.. While it's not a new concept, the challenge's resurgence is being linked to deaths in young users.
The "blackout challenge" swept TikTok in 2021, and experts have been warning users not to try it since the early 2000s. ... to hit the platform—except this one can harm users and even lead to ...
Multiple lawsuits have been filed against TikTok, accusing the platform of hosting content that led to the death of at least seven children. [25] The lawsuits claim that children died after attempting the "Blackout challenge", a TikTok trend that involves strangling or asphyxiating someone or themselves until they black out (passing out ...
The TikTok challenge first emerged in 2021 and has been witnessed all over the country. ... said that people unfamiliar with social media trends could interpret the prank as “a real life or ...
The skullbreaker challenge, [1] also known as the tripping jump challenge, [2] is a physically dangerous internet challenge which surfaced on TikTok in 2020. It revolves around participants intentionally inflicting head trauma on each other, then uploading footage of the 'challenge' to social media .
The lawsuit alleges 8-year-old Lalani, of Temple, Texas, and 9-year-old Arriani, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, “died of self-strangulation while participating in TikTok’s ’Blackout Challenge ...
Anderson v. TikTok, 2:22-cv-01849, (E.D. Pa.), is a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in which the court held that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA), 47 U.S.C. § 230, does not bar claims against TikTok, a video-sharing social media platform, regarding TikTok's recommendations to users via its algorithm.