Kentucky high school teens charged with "terroristic threats" after TikTok challenge
Kentucky high school teens charged with "terroristic threats" after TikTok challenge
The challenge encourages students to record a video of themselves telling a teacher there was a bomb or gun in their backpack as a "joke."
Three Kentucky teens were charged with terroristic threatening after participating in a TikTok challenge, Oldham County Police said in a news statement on Friday.
Investigators said that three separate incidents at Oldham County High School on Aug. 14, 15, and 17 were related to the TikTok challenge, which encourages students to record a video of themselves telling a teacher there was a bomb or gun in their backpack as a "joke."
"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 dumb1 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.
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.
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.
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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