Most everybody on the internet knows that TikTok is one of the most popular social media apps of today’s time, and possibly of all time. But TikTok has also brought some very dangerous and life-threatening trends with it.
One trend that has appeared on TikTok is called the Kiki challenge. This trend involved people setting up a camera in their cars, after which they would jump out of the car, do a dance, and try to jump back in. It goes without saying that this is very dangerous, and many people were hurt while doing this challenge. Many people fell on the concrete, and several cars rolled away. Although no one was directly killed from this, it is still a very dangerous trend. Honestly it’s quite a miracle that no one reportedly died from this and were lucky that’s the truth.
Another deadly challenge to emerge from the depths of TikTok is the boat jumping challenge. It’s pretty self explanatory, but this trend had people jumping off of boats moving extremely fast. In case you didn’t know, falling on water while moving fast feels like falling on concrete. This trend caused at least 4 people from Alabama to lose their lives from drowning. It’s really sad that people are throwing their lives away for TikTok fame. It goes to show just how deadly trends can be if people don’t take the time to think about what they are doing.
Trends like this are the reason social media is going downhill. A lot of people want to be the next internet celebrity, but normal content just doesn’t get views nowadays. “I think it’s kind of stupid but people think it’s funny to do something crazy,” TikTok user Amelia Willis said. With rising standards in content creation, people try to do things that endanger themselves to get more views. This has led to several content creators hurting themselves for views. Although this is very hard to say, sometimes content creators will hurt their own audience just to get more views on their channel.
Around the summer of 2022, a content creator named @chef.pii made a condiment called “Pink Sauce”. This sauce wasn’t just for any particular food but meant to be used on anything, sort of like ranch. On the surface this is a harmless sauce made by a TikToker, but there was something much more sinister underneath. If you were to look at the nutrition facts on a bottle of pink sauce, not only would you find some of the ingredients misspelled, you would find one of the ingredients to be milk. It’s good to note that these sauces are shipped over state lines and are not shipped in any refrigerated conditions. Because of this most of the sauces were different shades of pink, and many people reported the sauce being spoiled when they opened it. Many medical professionals have said that consumption of the pink sauce can lead to a disease called botulism. According to the CDC, Botulism is an illness that attacks the body’s nerves. This can lead to difficulty breathing, paralysis, and possibly death. Thankfully, there have been no reported cases of people getting sick from the pink sauce but it’s but someone could have easily gotten sick from eating this. Recently the creator of the sauce has come out to say that she has gone broke, and set up a go fund me for herself, claiming that the company in charge of distributing the pink sauce didn’t pay her well enough. However, this company claims that not only was she paid the amount agreed upon on their contract, they paid her more than $120k in USD.
