Why are so many people taking this seriously? Lol
Because of the tiktok crime trend mentioned elsewhere in the thread
Cause most of this community are posts that are serious. You can't blame people for getting confused when an actual meme shows up.
They are ?
Any piece of information I see, especially the more official looking, I take seriously
Why is Lemmy so boomer-brained?
Love how we've fully monetized kids doing stupid shit for attention. This has been a revenue stream we've left untapped for far too long.
Somebody wants to get hired by The Onion.
Add "stabbing yourself in the face" to the ever-growing list of things people didn't use to be so stupid they had to be warned not to do.
It's political correctness gone mad.
You can't do anything now. The liberals won't even let you slit your own throat. It's madness.
Nah, it's just a legacy of British colonialism, it's forbidden by the state to harm yourself in UK (half joking, because it really is a crime to harm yourself consensually)
If we don't warn them, eventually we won't need to warn them anymore.
Is this real or a joke? I can't tell.
Choose your path.
The fact that you have to ask says a lot about society /s
I love how tiktuk is so stupid, people actually believe that this is a TREND, when in reality nobody even knows anyone did this (if its even real, which its probably not) this just reminded me of the "set yourself on fire challenge" which supposedly was VERY trend on tiktak. I asked my friends that use the dumpster and no one knew what I was saying.
Apparently Tiktok has like 2 BILLION(!!) users. As crazy as that is, if even 0.01% of users is doing some dumb crazy thing, thats pptentially 200 000 kids injuring themselves or whatever when they wouldn't otherwise. Its not a trend among the majority of users, but it is a trend that was spread by tiktok.
There's many different sides of tiktok, and there's a chance that your friends just haven't seen it (not saying it's real).
For example, I'm sure they haven't seen fur suit construction videos.
Personally I don't think it gets dumber than the "Crashing Out" challenge (Film yourself as doing as many crimes as possible in the dumbest ways as possible, and try to get as much cash as possible from the views before you're banned from the platform and arrested)
Seriously, one guy's basically in the South Korean version of Area 51 after trying to see how many countries he could do this in..
If he was American, he could have just stayed home and done a lot of things that are federal crimes, like accidentally blocking a toilet in a national park or threatening a circus.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42201868-how-to-become-a-federal-criminal
This book is so good.
And my therapist wonders why I'm so god damn paranoid, and yes, he was... He called himself Johnny Somali.
I've seen some of his stunts, guy was a Grade A prick.
He dry humped "Woman of Comfort" statues in South Korea (Statues memorializing women forced into prostitution during wartime)
Continuously pretended to need help in order to take advantage of the kindness of strangers so that he could be "funny" by yelling at them for "being useless"
Got fresh cooked ramen at convince stores and proceeded to throw the noodles at passers-by (This was charged basically the same way as if you punched the Mayor of an American town in the god damn face and recorded it)
Signed off his videos by praising the Chinese Communist Party or talking about how "much better North Korea is" (It's worth noting that China, South Korea, North Korea, and Japan are four places that REALLY don't get along with each other.. and that South Korea has acted as a refuge for citizens of North Korea who manage to escape thanks to a law South Korea has that recognizes citizens of any Korean territory as South Korean citizens, which given the cruelty of North Korea is more than a little based)
Walked around on trains with loud speakers that constantly shouted via Text To Speech "I HAVE A BOMB" and "PRAISE KIM JUNG UN" in Korean repetitiously. All while obnoxiously shouting "SORRY, I DON'T SPEAK KOREAN, DON'T KNOW WHAT IT SAYS, CAN'T GET IT TO STOP!"
Smoked weed, in a country where just having THC in your urine is basically the same level of "Guilty as fuck" as American Cops with body cam on watching you do a line in your meth lab after you just casually waived your 4th Amendment rights and invited them in. (Guess one of the reasons why he's locked up now)
What's worse? He CONTINUED to do this shit even after Youtube banned him, and STILL persisted even when he learned he had warrants out for his arrest. He seemed to think that as long as he apologized and claimed cultural misunderstand, he could do whatever the fuck he wanted. To be fair, this "I'm not evil, I'm just dumb, please have mercy." strategy apparently worked in Japan and he was merely "just asked to leave", so he probably thought all asian countries would be so lentient, but still.... I've never seen someone with such powerful anti-survival traits.
But that doesn't explain why the hell he just continued to do this, even after they confiscated his passport and told him he was barred from leaving the country until after criminal investigation. (He was not officially arrested yet for two reasons.
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They intentionally held off on arrest so that he would waste the last of his money instead of getting free room and board on the Korean Taxpayer Dime. (Remember South Korea is a much smaller country than America and fleeing for the border just means going to North Korea aka, a giant prison camp pretending to be a country)
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His continued misbehavior even when he knew law enforcement was watching his every move made him the best player on the Prosecution's team)
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Kids, don't play with too many knives.
Reminds me of this guy who called a store and convinced the owner to call the police on a random customer girl and give her a strip search
I'm sorry?
It was a McDonald's, the caller hacked into the security camera feed and called one of the managers (male) pretending to be law enforcement.
There was a movie about it called compliance.
True story. The video was making the rounds on the internet for a while.
I certainly hope this isn’t real. If it is, though, we’ve clearly held Darwinism at bay for far too long and maybe we should just start letting these things play out.
It always makes that NOFX song The Idiots Are Talking Over pop into my head
🎶The industrial revolution, Has flipped the bitch on evolution🎶
Poe's Law is in full effect.
What do people expect from an account named "nutty putty cave updates"?
Reminds me of the guy that promised people money for a study over Skype and them people zapped themselves by putting fingers into outlets. But they were adults not kids.
This could totally be a thing
Also known as the 'Thinning the Herd of the Weak and Stupid' challenge.
What kind of tiktoks are people watching? I sometimes watch tiktok and never was able to see those stupid trends. I only see memes, car content, cartoons and some goofy stuff.
can't wait for the next challenge, "give us your daddy or mommys DOD password or stab your grandma in the armpits"
"Survival of the fittest is taking a new turn; tonight at 2200!"
fyi you probably meant something like
. The exclamation mark makes it so that Lemmy embeds the image instead of just linking to it! Inside the square brackets is the alternative text for when the image can't be loaded or when it is read by a screen reader.
The Elliot Smith challenge
Hardcore motherfucker. The realest one. I wish he hadn't done it of course. If he could've been saved I can't imagine how incredible his music might have become. He could have been a great advocate for mental health.
Yikes 😬
It's OK I donated to Wikipedia this morning
