The new Tik Tok 'blackout' challenge just may kill these crazy kids !

At least the kids who died died for a worthy cause.

Yes, they laid down their lives so Tik Tok challenges may live on.

Honestly, if they're stupid enough to try this then it's just cleaning up the gene pool.

There were some 'concerned parents' speaking on the news saying "It really takes a village to raise kids these days". Really ? It don't recall it had to 'take a village' pre-millennials /zoomers.

[quote]It really takes a village

Told you so.

R5 - Greenwich Village?

I knew a little girl who held her breath until her head cracked open.

Take my breath awaaaaayyyy!

Tweens and teens have been doing this for over 20 years. I didn't find out this was a trend 'til years later because I was a terrified, closeted, school library-dweller at the time, but apparently "cool" kids were choking each other out just for funsies back when I was middle school and high school.

Yeah we used to do this at parties in the 90s too. And whip its!

I call bullshit and hysteria on this story.

Unless these idiots held their breath under water or with a plastic bag tied around their heads, it's almost impossible to die from holding your breath.

Once you blackout, you will automatically start breathing again.

The new “Rainbow Parties”!

Ha-ha!

Most likely the one hospitalized struggled to blackout and had some assistance. The truth will come out.

Anyway tiktok continues to be terrible.

Why stop natural selection?

holding your breath can kill you? toddlers everywhere quake.

My dog holds her breath when she gets her teeth cleaned. It scared the shit out of the non-anesthetic teeth cleaning clinic dude (who was really cute, btw).

How is this even possible. At some point your body's survival instict is going to kick in and force you to breath.

r18=Kelly Osbourne.

Once you pass out you start breathing again.

“There have been deaths reported as a result of kids participating in the challenge.”

Passive voice doing a lot of work there.

[quote] “There have been deaths reported as a result of kids participating in the challenge.”

Let's see a link to even one.

If the kid has pre-existing medical conditions (especially a heart condition), or if the kid is heavily medicated (like many kids are from this generation) doing this 'tik tok challenge' could have different results than 'waking back up'. If any kid blacks out and falls down on cement or hits their head on something dangerous, it could be fatal.

I wore a tie to "picture" day in highschool and decided to freak out a girl sitting in front of me by choking myself by tightening it. I did it maybe Friday ve times and then the next try I didn't have the strength to loosen my tie and I passed out.

The teacher loosened my tie and revived me somehow and we just continued along with the class.

And that, DLers, is how R24 discovered the joys of autoerotic asphyxiation.

How long before the troll farms start screaming "free speech" and the masses who don't understand what that really entails start parroting it?

This is so 2020.

Does anybody think that bytedance won't sell TikTok to an American-based company (that they own)? This isn't about banning TikTok, it's about controlling what governments have unfettered access to American citizens' data and what they do with it.

It’s a great way to weed out stupid people in our society

If eating tide pods didn't work, maybe this will!

I'm waiting for the drop challenge: Find the tallest building in your city, go to the roof and jump.

Another *Darwin Approved* challenge.

Finally! A lifeguard at the Gene Pool!

This has been a thing for many, many decades. Long before TikTok there was an active rumor/gosspi mill with people dumb enough to take a dare.

It’s killing all the right people. Good.

We did this in 5th grade in 1978. A kid would hold their breath while another kid would hold them from behind, putting pressure on their solar plexus. It was really about horny preteens getting handsy.

Speaking of the “Rainbow Parties” mentioned at R12, was there any proof that this really was a countrywide epidemic? Or more in the vein of adult urban legends about “kids today”!

R36 Same, except 6th grade and 1984.

It’s funny, we did something similar when I was in the fifth grade back in 1985. But it was of course called a “Russian Knockout.” You didn’t hold your breath but you basically took really quick breaths until you hyperventilated THEN you held your breath until you lost consciousness. You’d see stars and then blackout.

i used to do that shit all the time if you die you're a pussy

Another reason to gt rid of the CCP's disinformation tool. Will be sorely missed by the Iranian regime and Putin's too