Challenges on TikTok: When will deadly internet trends be stopped? | Life & Knowledge

2024-03-13 08:09:54

An eleven-year-old sees a trend on the social media app TikTok, imitates it – and dies.

A nightmare that came true for the parents of Tommie-Lee Gracie Billington (11): The British boy tried out the TikTok challenge “Chroming” (also known as “sniffing”), in which fumes from, for example, nail polish -Remover inhales. Tommie-Lee suffered cardiac arrest.

Such tragedies occur again and again as a result of such TikTok challenges. BILDplus explains who is actually behind the platform, what is being done to combat the dangers to children and how parents should behave.