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.”

  • ANGRY_MAPLE@sh.itjust.works
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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.