It’s 4:00 PM, and you just got out of school. You decide to do a TikTok trend with your friend every day. Today’s trend is the Tide Pod challenge. You eat a Tide Pod and then suddenly collapse. You passed out due to Tide Pods being poisonous. Kids do stupid things like this every day.
TikTok trends cause the death of many innocent students yearly! Would it be depressing if a child you knew died from a TikTok trend? Every single year, teens kill themselves by doing stupid things because of TikTok trends. According to EMS1’s story, “It’s killing our babies”: 12-year-old dies in TikTok challenge: A 12-year-old girl died from doing the blackout challenge. It is where you make it to where you cannot breathe until you give up. This is just one of many examples where children have killed themselves just for a TikTok trend.
TikTok trends get many students in trouble for doing something hurtful or flat-out stupid. Teens get into trouble a lot by doing some hurtful trend that harms someone else, either physically or mentally. Would you be heartbroken if your child harmed someone else for a TikTok trend? According to the organization ESD112, students have been doing “devious licks.” This is a trend where people steal things from places and sometimes hurt people. For example, sometimes people steal stuff like sinks and throw them at people inside a stall. This is another example where children have done something harmful because of a TikTok trend that needs to be stopped.
Did you know that one of the main reasons people do TikTok trends is for popularity? Children do stuff all the time solely for popularity! Doing TikTok trends just for popularity is not good because many are harmful. According to Kubbco, TikTok trends are popular due to TikTok’s algorithm. The algorithm is made so that these unsafe trends are popular. This harms children because they do these things knowing they will become popular, or at least thinking there is a very high chance that this will cause the growth of their profile.
TikTok trends shouldn’t be followed, especially harmful ones. If it were your child doing this, you would be upset, wouldn’t you? So remember, next time you’re thinking about doing a TikTok trend, it probably isn’t a good idea. All it takes is a few thoughts to make a different video.
