Maybe I’m just an old curmudgeon, but I can’t feel sorry for anyone dumb enough to try this.
I have kids, and I’m confident that if I asked my 10 year old about this, even she’d know that it’s a terrible idea.
I’d hope so too, but I worry that even the smartest kids could fall for something that perfectly targets the specific thing they’re really insecure about.
I’d worry about things they don’t understand. If there was a “bleach and ammonia” challenge, I’d be concerned.
I don’t think many kids know what happens when you mix those, and some would die figuring it out.
It’s going to be much more difficult to find a kid that doesn’t know that a hammer to the face is a bad idea.
Those who are willing to hit themselves in the face with a hammer because of a TikTok trend, deserve to be hit in the face with a hammer.
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2071/
Not directed at you, OP, but rather the poster in the image. What insane Internet circles are they in that this is the content they’re seeing?
It’s because those darn kids on the Tic Tacs with their marijuana drug cigarettes.
The original OP is a doctor so he’s probably getting these kids showing up in his service and went on tik tok to see what it was about.