Social Media Challenges (1 Viewer)

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I remember the ice bucket challenge, that was pretty benign, but the tide pod challenge was terrible. It's at once hard to believe anyone would do some of those things and easy to believe. I know the flerfers say we are all sheeple, but in some cases, we are.

Don’t forget the crate challenge

 

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Don’t forget the crate challenge

What was the crate challenge?

 

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What was the crate challenge?

Sent plenty of ppl to the hospital with broken bones.

 

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Health officials warn against eating fried toothpicks after viral social media trend

‘Starch toothpicks are a hygiene product!’ health officials write on X

www.independent.co.uk

 

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Health experts have issued a warning on the dangerous BORG - also known as “blackout rage gallons” - drinking trend popularised by Gen Z college students.

According to the National Capital Poison Center, BORG drinking typically takes place at day parties, popularly known as “darties,” with participants carrying around a gallon-sized plastic jug that has a powerful alcoholic concoction inside.

Consisting of vodka or some other distilled alcohol as well as water, a flavor enhancer, and an electrolyte powder or drink, there’s usually far more alcohol in the jugs than the other ingredients, so much so that experts have dubbed it “life-threatening.”

“Drinking one can lead to potentially life-threatening consumption and alcohol poisoning,” Stanford psychiatry and addiction medicine professor Dr Anna Lembke explained to CNN.

Unlike its long-reigning jungle juice counterpart, usually a party-sized mix meant for all, BORGs are meant for personal use. However, the end goal is ultimately the same - to get you extremely drunk.

“A BORG often contains a fifth [25.6 fluid ounces or 3.2 cups] of vodka or other hard alcohol, which is about 17 standard drinks, which is a massive amount of alcohol.”

Dr Lembke credits BORG drinking’s rise with “social contagion,” made all the worse by the omnipresence of social media like TikTok.........

Health experts issue warning on dangerous Gen-Z ‘BORG’ drinking trend

The popularity of blackout rage gallons - commonly known as BORGs - among GenZ have health experts worried

www.independent.co.uk

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/20/health/borg-blackout-rage-gallon-wellness/index.html#:~:text=The%20acronym%20BORG%20stands%20for,an%20electrolyte%20powder%20or%20drink.

 

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TikTok “challenges” have been blamed for grievous spinal injuries, horrific burns, and, at one point in the not-too-distant past, a global shortage of Ozempic.

Now, the world’s second most popular social media app will be forced to explain itself as it battles accusations that it knowingly steered potentially dangerous videos to young people while ignoring warnings of death and destruction in an attempt to maximize profits.

An opinion handed down Tuesday by a US appeals court breathed new life into a momentous lawsuit filed by a grieving mother who believes TikTok is culpable for the loss of her daughter.

Federal law “provides TikTok immunity from suit for hosting videos created and uploaded by third parties,” US Circuit Judge Paul Matey wrote in his partial concurrence.

At the same time, it does not protect TikTok from being held to account for what Matey described as its alleged “knowing distribution and targeted recommendation of videos it knew could be harmful.”

In a statement provided on Wednesday to The Independent, attorney Jeffrey Goodman, who argued the appeal on behalf of the Anderson family, said, “Big Tech just lost its ‘get-out-of-jail-free’ card. This ruling ensures that the powerful social media companies will have to play by the same rules as all other corporations, and when they indifferently cause harm to children, they will face their day in court.”

It was the TikTok-infamous “Blackout Challenge” that killed 10-year-old Nylah Anderson, according to her mom.

In December 2021, Philadelphia-area resident Tawainna Anderson discovered her daughter’s lifeless body on the bedroom floor, following the “active, happy, healthy, and incredibly intelligent” girl’s attempt to complete the challenge, in which users of the world’s second most popular non-gaming app choked themselves with belts, towels, or other objects until they passed out. Nylah was rushed to the hospital, where she died five days later.

Over an 18-month span between 2021 and 2022, the Blackout Challenge was said to have killed 20 children in 18 months, 15 of them under the age of 12. And it’s hardly the only dangerous “challenge” to go viral.

The “Skullbreaker Challenge,” which involves kicking a person’s legs out from under them as they jump into the air, nearly paralyzed a 13-year-old Pennsylvania girl, and has led to criminal charges in at least one instance.

The so-called Angel of Death Challenge, a “game” in which participants jump in front of moving vehicles to see if they’ll stop in time, has reportedly led to multiple deaths.

And when a 12-year-old Arizona boy attempted the TikTok “Fire Challenge,” where youngsters record themselves igniting blazes at home, he landed in the ICU and has undergone multiple surgeries since…….,

A 10-year-old died during the viral ‘blackout challenge.’ Now TikTok could be liable

“Big Tech just lost its ‘get-out-of-jail-free’ card,” attorney Jeffrey Goodman said

www.independent.co.uk