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.”

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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      I remember when hazing was a thing and there was a scandal because a teenager got sodomized with a broomstick.

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      1 year ago

      I agree mostly, but the cinnamon challenge and the chubby bunny challenge were a thing years before tik tok was released. People have been posting themselves doing dumb things online to follow trends for a pretty long time.

      I agree that it could totally be a possibility, though. I just don’t want to give tik tok undue credit.