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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" swept TikTok in 2021, and experts have been warning users not to try it since the early 2000s. ... which claim wrongful death and point to the TikTok challenge, were filed ...
Following a hearing, the court fined TikTok $10 million on December 30, 2024, over viral video challenges that authorities say led to the deaths of three children. The court cited TikTok's negligence in failing to implement "necessary and adequate measures" to prevent the viral challenge. [21] [22] [23]
The Texas and Wisconsin girls loved to dance, sing and post videos to TikTok. Their parents say they died participating in a dangerous challenge.
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday wrestled with whether the video-based social media platform TikTok could be sued for causing a 10-year-old girl's death by promoting a deadly "blackout challenge ...
Of these 86.6% were male, and the mean age was 13.3. 95.7% of these deaths occurred while the youth was alone; parents of the decedents were unaware of the game in 92.9% of cases. Deaths were recorded in 31 states and were not clustered by location, season or day of week. [17]
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 ...
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 .