A New Tik Tok Trend is Getting People Killed

[@stillblazinkush]

Imagine having to explain to her parents why Stacy died. There was this TikTok challenge you see...

[@joekenorer]

Her mom's got it goin' on, though. There's that.

[@MaxxRemKing1]

​@@joekenorer😂😂😂

[@Cigmacica]

Soon there's going to be a mourn your children challenge

[@requiem522]

​@cigmacica886 The parents bury themselves with the kid for 100 days

[@Im_Not_Loss]

​@juscbhbhuvsdsdvbhjwsdv3843 No one, not just children, should be allowed on social media without first learning social media etiquette and best digital hygiene practices. Before anyone is exposed to social media for the first time, they should have a _very_ long conversation on not doing stupid shit and how to avoid trackers that will build a data profile on them over the years that will be sold without their expressed consent.

[@fluffcake]

It is quite disturbing how easily people will throw their lives away just for their fifteen seconds of fame, and even more depressing how common it’s getting.

[@TheEltre]

Ye, we are down from 15min of fame down to 15 microseconds

[@samuelcalkin3516]

I am waiting for the rob a bank challenge.

[@vintce6019]

@@shreddy_mcgnar6359 It's not even fame in any sense, you obtain a legacy where you died from a tiktok challenge, a really dumb one.

[@GummerJum]

they are LITERALLY throwing their lives away in this case

[@jumpkicking]

The thing is these trends are really manipulating because everyone who participates isn't the ones getting the fame, its the challenge setters who blow up. More often than not, the trendsetter gets more attention and thus revenue when people have died. It really is sick and twisted and no one takes accountability or acts responsibly because there's so much pseudo-disassociation.

[@spookytv2]

Used to be a lifeguard. People are totally unaware of how dangerous water is. Remember that surface tension makes water like concrete and that it only takes 2 inches of water to drown. Please practice water safety in all circumstances.

[@ckopen7192]

its not just surface tension either, even if you come in at the right angle to pierce thru the surface tension like high divers do, the water can only be displaced so fast and if your body is moving faster than that then its game over aswell.

[@christopherm4739]

Also, this is personal observation, through actual beach swimming and seeing many videos of it, waves have some serious inertia. They won't just bowl you over if it's a high wave, but will also drag you out into the ocean if you let them.

[@PerkaholicFB]

This is an actual question not trying to sound dumb or anything, but how does one go about drowning in 2inches??? Unless they are a child

[@christopherm4739]

@@PerkaholicFB drunk. Or incapacitated. Face down.

[@Cookiebird606SS]

I’m terrified of water

[@ChildNightmare]

It's natural selection everytime a tiktok trend kills someone

[@generalgreevus8773]

Dumb ways to die, So many dumb ways to die! 🎵

[@chickenmaster66]

Says the guy holding a cigarette in one hand and beer in the other and morbidly overweight. At least people who bring up natural selection normally look like that

[@who7237]

Real we don't need stupid people like them. Let nature run its course 😭😭

[@smittyjjensin558]

The day a tik tok trend doesn't kill people is the day I actually accomplish something with my life

[@PooperBoi]

@999CLIPSshush

[@jBun12]

Good luck bro 🫡

[@Xavriel1738]

@999CLIPSi'd expect nothing less from a juice wrld fan account

[@ericgolightly8450]

​@999CLIPSBruh go outside and breath some fresh air, nobody is subbing to you and nobody thinks you're cool. Please go spend some time with your family.

[@pureChem1calz]

Go on let's see you do something about it if you want to accomplish something

[@savagex378]

I've always said that Tik Tok was the "megaphone for idiots" but it now being weaponized to eliminate them was the level up I didn't expect.

[@Bloo1_]

A good level up honestly. Gotta weed out the morons for society to evolve

[@GayRobotSex2024]

LMAO.

[@funnyvalentine5407]

Megaphone for idiots Wow that’s actually pretty accurate

[@totallynotafanficreader7850]

I would have been fine if it was just idiotic adults but unfortunately children are idiots and they need a chance to grow into not-idiots so I’m actually a bit concerned about this development

[@GayRobotSex2024]

@@totallynotafanficreader7850 I complete agree with your sentiments. TikTok is just pure evil, because it creates an easy invitation for young stupid kids to challenge themselves to an early death / suicide.

[@ALaughingWolf2188]

It really is a shame how these viral TikTok trends keep killing young, stupid and naive kids over and over again, it’s like a sick continuous cycle

[@dariusfilip4695]

@@CJ_Dook doesnt give me the option to, L

[@-spacedout--spacebound-7438]

Unfortunately their parents are partly to blame. You can't just hand your kid a device and let them play on it unsupervised. I can guarantee you that these kids were iPad kids that were never told no. And they had to pay for it with their lives

[@alex-dm3sn]

Sounds like natural selection to me tbh

[@darkgather2808]

welcome to cycle of stupidity!

[@BOBOZOOR15]

Indeed, and I hope people will stop risking their lives for the internet pretty soon.

[@CanItAlready]

The frustrating thing about TikTok is that there are people on there who are genuinely trying to educate people on various topics. But they're outnumbered and drowned out (no pun intended, honest) by these kinds of trends.

[@Aiko-xy7qf]

Its not by accident.

[@lebronjamesfromdwade4103]

Ahh yes exactly what we need. Unqualified social commentary from Tik Tokkers. That’s what’s really going to change society for the better. 😂

[@normkaraevans8343]

As an ex drag boat racer, I can tell you that we didn't wear helmets and Kevlar ballistic shorts for nothing.

[@planerdude88]

I can understand the helmets but why kevlar shorts?

[@soupcangaming662]

@@planerdude88 Gun sharks. You gotta watch out for those.

[@skrimper]

​@@soupcangaming662 they are no joke, lost my uncle to a hammerhead packing a .45

[@Human_01]

Interesting.

[@thecloneguyz]

Hitting water is no different than hitting concrete except you actually bounce PFFFFFFFTBWUHAHAHAHA

[@macdb8901]

We live in times when it's getting more and more difficult to have empathy for stupid people.

[@XicorVT]

obvs i never gonna feel sorry for idiots

[@kaminsod4077]

Your mistake was having any empathy for idiots in the first place.

[@510tuber]

Stuff like this has always gone on. It's just filmed now. Ever hear older generations say, "We did this stupid and dangerous stuff and we survived." Well, thanks to filming, we're now seeing the one's that don't.

[@Francisco1st]

@@510tuberfair I remember doing dumb stuff as a kid

[@SirLukedatgoat]

Honestly, i feel good that this happened so people can be deterred from downloading TikTok

[@meguwu4975]

The worst thing about the blackout challenge was that it was mostly little kids doing it. Like I think the youngest was 9 years old and the ages I heard were mostly all under 18. Letting a 9 year old just be on TikTok unmonitored is absolutely insane

[@madisonevans7950]

Reminds me of when there was that trend where people were cinching their waists with belts and stuff super fast and hard along to a song from like a musical movie or something.MIGHT have been a disney film. Anyways, so many kids using super dangerous stuff if they didnt havae a belt to do it. Literally saw a vid of like a 7 year old doing it with a power cable. where tf are these kids parents and stuff??

[@misssilver11]

@@madisonevans7950Ah yeah it’s a song from the SIX musical. Not only was it dangerous but it was also very damaging mentally to a lot of people for not have a super skinny waist

[@Boe_Jidens_Hair_Sniffing]

Yupp it's called shitty parents. "Every child deserves a parent but not every parent deserves a child"

[@brett8460]

My cousin lets her 7 year old daughter upload tiktok dances in her underwear. Everyone's told her about it but she doesn't seem to care because her daughter is still posting them. My grandmother called CPS but CPS was no fucking help so I don't know what else to do. I really think the minimum age for social media should be raised to 16 instead of 13.

[@WhoTFVotedBiden]

Natural selection 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@ShuckleII]

4:50 That is called "creeping normality". It's "the way a major negative change which happens slowly in many unnoticed increments is not perceived as objectionable".

[@vnmblade]

imagine dying for a tiktok just for your ghost to see Charlie calling it embarrassing 💀💀💀

[@Joedirt3349]

Its a shoah!

[@Per_Sun]

Imagine risking yourself whatsoever for a Tik Tok - full stop.

[@vnmblade]

@@cavachoncx777 what the fuck are you talking about

[@myrandomchannelonyt]

@@cavachoncx777he didn’t save in this situation 💀

[@lancefulbright2685]

@@myrandomchannelonyt not even JESUS and or GOD can fix stupid SO GOD said let the stupid sort them self out

[@mishtrong]

As a person who has, in fact, a masters degree in Physics, I can confirm that jumping of a fast moving boat is dangerous.

[@FACEUIOY]

because when you hit the border between air and water (i forgot the scientific term) it feels like you hit concrete

[@gorgit]

This man really has a master in physics, because he felt the urge to say it here. Source: I have a masters in physics

[@jordanpadula2624]

Good to get that confirmed. haha

[@JamesSClapperton]

And the figures Charlie mentioned are 100% correct. You do indeed hit “hard as shit”.

[@JohnnyFontane528]

You don’t have a master’s degree in physics. Prove it. Spell “Archimedes”. Yeah, that’s what I thought.

[@adamgreenhill110]

Every Tiktok "challenge" is either illegal, or deadly. That's not a challenge, it's A: a crime, B: a death sentence

[@2ndcomingofFritz]

Could be both as well

[@2ndcomingofFritz]

@@qwaserdftyghuijkopthey’re either what he said or require an incredibly small amount of talent or effort, such as dancing to a trendy music piece

[@Thekidisalright]

That’s American stupidity right there because even before there is TikTok, those low IQs be eating tidepods on Twitter and Snapchat, not to mention, you don’t see kids from other countries do this shit. That’s because America is a special country with many special kids lol

[@ninjaexperto7217]

And they are both: Dumb

[@artistanthony1007]

I consider both.

[@melbournewolf]

You nailed it with the absolute lack of judgement on display and the aftermath of those deaths. There Darwin Awards don't have enough categories.

[@prophetJPG]

We had a kid end up in our ICU after being convinced by their older sibling to do the "highway challenge" with them. The older sibling/friends made it across the highway. The younger one did not-- got their shit ROCKED by a car driving at highway speed. The kid ultimately made it, but at that time, I can say that was one of the most complicated/sickest kids I'd ever seen. I truly didn't think they were gonna make it, and I'm still pretty sure they're gonna experience lifelong disabilities because of it. I can't imagine the family dynamic during and after that. That case was the only time I'd heard of this challenge too. Luckily, it must not have become a big one.

[@creasedhorizon8931]

That older sibling is most likely gonna blame themselves for the rest of their lives. Unfortunately it is their fault so they aren't wrong to. Stupid shit.

[@vazanere]

How do you rationalize trying to dodge cars on the highway?

[@FirstLast-yr9kx]

Damn... they never heard of Frogger?

[@daltonsibley794]

​@@FirstLast-yr9kxI always called it "playing Frogger" when I was young and immortal and needed to cross a wide road with no crosswalk nearby. Now that I'm older (still immortal), I've grown to understand how the injuries from bad decisions just lower quality of life forever.

[@YummyCracker]

@@daltonsibley794Crossy Road IRL

[@re1ive456]

The Tide pod trend got more attention because the reputation of a multi-billion dollar company (Tide) was impacted. Tide’s PR team made sure to quickly squash that “challenge.” The other deadly “challenges” have no brand associated with them so they don’t get the same media response.

[@XD-sc4ix]

Same thing for the nyquil chicken and the Hyundai and Kia theft challenges really especially the latter because it made public an issue on the aforementioned types of cars

[@vinny1883]

That could've contributed to it but the main reason was that it was the first time something so stupidly dangerous went "viral," as we used to say back in the day. I believe big youtubers were talking about it before the news was.

[@777-e1p]

@@vinny1883this isn’t true though, tide pod challenge went viral right at the end of 2017/early 2018. The blackout challenge had killed 82 kids in 2008 alone, and hospitalised and killed even more up to present day. The fire challenge was viral in 2014, a challenge where the whole point was literally to set your entire body on fire for a goofy video. Salt and ice challenge dates back to like 2012/13 and involves you, for a laugh, giving yourself second or third degree burns and even nerve damage. It’s because it was linked to a big corporation who didn’t wanna get sued period, we have been doing stupid dangerous things for a few likes for years.

[@fart63]

@@777-e1pI think the reason the tide pod challenge became so viral was just how simple and stupid it was just in execution. You just eat a tide pod. There’s nothing even challenging about it, it’s just an extremely simple and stupid thing to do and something that is easily understood. With those older and kind of more dangerous challenges, you have to actually explain what they were. With the tide pod challenge you can just hear the name and say “what a stupid thing”. Idk if I explained that well but that’s my view

[@GANTZ100pts]

​@@777-e1pThe hell was the blackout challenge?

[@zuzanna4380]

I remember this movie back in 2016 (funny how it seems like that was long ago), it was called "nerve". it was about people on the internet daring or rather forcing other people to do "challenges" through the means of blackmail. Somewhere in the final part of the movie there was a "challenge" which was to jump off of a skycraper. Back then I was 19 and it scared the shit out of me to think that some day in the future social media could lead people to that .... here we are.

[@joshos_conspiracy]

facts, nerve was ahead of its time or brainstormed internet challenges. Went right across our heads

[@joshos_conspiracy]

My favorite part of nerve was when MGK went under that train, that is still one of my favorite jawdropping moments I've seen.

[@Pharo88]

Holy shit i havent thought about that movie in years. The boomers were right all along.

[@OVOJermey]

Is that movie good though? 🤔

[@zuzanna4380]

@@OVOJermey it's certainly not an oscar winning production, more like a shitty movie for teens, but the concepts included there will certainly blow your mind if you think about KZbin and TikTok

[@ponglee9725]

Hitting the water at 60mph is like hitting cement.

[@erebsargames9684]

It's sad that an app is able to change peoples mentality so radically. Truly goes to show how specific app design can affect the psyche of the users.

[@Pylen2]

Facts

[@brooklyn_716]

100% facts!

[@feels6233]

Exactly what the CCP made it for

[@reikun86]

Remember that kid from who left the mortal coil because they banned Tiktok in India? Something about the app must be really addicting.

[@HolyDesolateLord]

Not even a conservative but its kind of hard not to point finger at china for tiktok. Compare chinas tiktok to ours...

[@ceedubs]

I can't believe we've reached an age where, "if your friends were jumping off a bridge would you do it too" has be come an actual realistic possibility.

[@amenenema474]

It's not a new thing or an "age". Overall, people have actually gotten SMARTER as a whole (I know, scary right?) Humans have always been dumb as fuck, but now you get to see instantly accessible highlight reels every day from all across the globe. The actual reality is, most kids these days in real life are probably MORE aware of how dangerous things are than kids used to be and know how to avoid them because they see these videos of stupid people getting killed and injured. Kids in previous decades didn't have that and lived in true bubbles that didn't extend beyond their city or their nightly news. Sorry for the rant, I just HATE this awful, untrue, boomery fallacy that people, kids in particular, are seriously dumber than previous generations because it is so incredibly untrue and insulting. Kids these days are sharp and progressive as hell...it's the grey haired people that I am personally worried about 😂

[@ElizabethT45]

This trend could get so much worse. Like what's next, 'I'm jumping out of this airplane without a parachute'?

[@micahlehrke9]

@@amenenema474 Literally everything seen in this video and TikTok in general lead me to not believe this lol.

[@nikolaitheundying]

​@@amenenema474Have you considered the kids these days are more progressive because they're stupid and will just blindly accept whatever alphabet pride acceptance garbage is hurled into their classrooms.

[@Monkey45983]

@@amenenema474as a kid. Most people my age are dumb as shit. As an entirety, humanity has gotten smarter. But kids my age are literally braindead. (Im in hs)

[@vishavula3560]

Imagine how traumatizing this would be for the family members of a person who died due to a Tiktok trend. It is crazy how many people are willing to throw their lives away just for a little bit of internet clout.

[@WhoTFVotedBiden]

I doubt they are traumatized at all if they let their children use tik tok. I just want to laugh in their face because this is natural selection and they had it coming 🤣🤦🏼‍♂️

[@FrozenEdgeEX]

Charlie thought the same way during the Tidepods craze, like the family is gonna be ashamed that when they explained to people their kid died due to Tidepods

[@kindauncool]

+@@WhoTFVotedBiden you done trolling, @WhoTFVotedBiden?

[@crow2989]

Wyrd

[@jaymaledic5730]

@@kindauncool I kinda agree with the guy. Darwinism exists for a reason. If not for these stupidities, we won't progress as a specie.

[@discoduckgandolf]

Nah, they aren't challenges. Call them for what they really are: acts of reckless endangerment.

[@jeremydale4548]

That should get TikTok permanently banned for not suppressing or outright banning this kind of content on their platform.

[@ryand1404]

This is literally what we were warned about as kids when they said “If your friend jumped off a cliff, would you jump too?” The answer is now, “of course”. If that friend filmed himself while jumping off the cliff, he’s a TikTok star. Some people really will do whatever if they see someone else do it.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

the groupthink in society in general has been getting a lot stronger over the past couple decades. everybody is just doing whatever the celebrities, influencers, and whatever other people are shoved in their face, are doing, without much critical thinking.

[@asmodahlia]

​@@TheSuperappelflapexactly. This, I think it's the bigger problem. The platform is just the tool being used here to propagate it. Back when I was in middle/high school, we still heard about kids dying to peer pressure and groupthink on the news and in rumors. We just hear about more of them and have more of them propagated now because of our growing interconnectivity.

[@aaronmoore6275]

Yeah, I'll try to land on a fat kid.

[@setofreakinkaiba8553]

My elementary school brain was like "yes!" just to piss off the teacher but never thought of actually doing that. I always saw it as metaphor.

[@TheGallantDrake]

@@TheSuperappelflapnah, it’s just more visible

[@heavymetalfishingla]

I'm an avid boater. Been in boats since I was an infant. I've driven everything from small aluminum hull craft to 28ft center console offshore boats. There is NOTHING in this world that pisses me off more than unsafe boating practices. Riding on the bow, not wearing a life jacket or kill switch for the operator, people going faster than they can operate safely. It's not even the impact from the water that's the scariest part. It's the chance of being chopped up by a prop spinning at 2800 rpm. And prop injuries are very sickening. This is more proof that my conspiracy minded caveman brain believes that TikTok is created to kill people and make people more stupid

[@oof5576]

Either that or just weed out the stupid

[@cwill2127]

Yeah by far the worst thing I’ve seen working in the ER is a kid and boat prop accident. It was one of the first traumas i saw shortly after starting working and even years later it remains by far the worst one. I don’t have kids or anything but have developed a more healthy fear about people/drunk people near the end of a boat even when it’s off

[@katlynmoore4895]

dude i still have a scar on my heel from barely touching the propeller and it chopped a fat ass chunk of skin off

[@Envious_JIG]

To be fair... These people were dumb enough to do this in the first place. Tiktok isn't to blame for stupidity when you look at the education system and how they're now trying to put posters up of the 10 commandments in classrooms.

[@MAX-de8fe]

You gotta get the stupid out of the gene pool somehow🤷‍♂️

[@MoonWielder]

At this point, we need a website that tallies up all the deaths caused by TikTok "challenges" in real time because it's getting too hard to count.

[@orynx2835]

Do you want a countdown as well 💀

[@camporium2807]

We need it to be live

[@Idonthaveanythingtodo]

on youtube

[@SeasoningTheObese]

Does America need another L?

[@The_Hunta62]

@@SeasoningTheObeseAmerica? this app is an international issue

[@Unheardhat]

One lady tried this trend, she was an “Influencer” she got killed by the rotor as the boat wasn’t too fast, but she jumped and got cut deep by the boat on her Upper Back and the left side of her neck all the way to the bone.

[@Randomlad56]

Oof, sounds brutal 😓

[@atrainbrady3208]

Who was this so called influencer?

[@konnortierney4444]

I fell off a jet ski going 55mph roughly 10 years ago and to this day it’s one of the most painful things I’ve gone through. I thought I was paralyzed when I oriented myself in the water. I still have a hard time riding those things to this day. By the grace of God, I came out unscathed, but it was very scary. The thought that people would do this willingly is baffling to me.

[@Jinfwjump]

I didn’t know that water could hurt or kill you if you’re going at a high speed. And I’m guessing most didn’t unless this is something everyone is supposed to know.

[@purplehz97]

​@@JinfwjumpPretty obvious actually. Ever do a belly flop into a pool? I'm pretty sure most people would know better. However I'm sure the ratio of idiots vs. people with common sense has increased dramatically. TikTok is made for people with no attention span.

[@runbumdum]

​@@purplehz97 thing is most people know downward force will kill not just any force and that's the issue. Critical thinking is a skill people aren't using anymore and Texas even tried removing it from their school curriculum.

[@lol_histicall4289]

@@purplehz97dude most people only know belly flops can be bad like I didn’t even know water could still hurt you when you’re going at high speed on something like a speed boat it doesn’t really cross my mind at all that that could even happen really because I don’t expect water to be the same as a hard asphalt road

[@drewlovelyhell4892]

I jumped off of a bridge that was only about 25-30 feet above the water. Even though I tried to do a "pin-drop", the impact did it's best to wrench my legs in opposite directions. Standing water isn't soft at any level of speed. It's more like jumping into jelly. And that was just dropping in. And I was in my 20's. I'd never dream of doing something like that at my current age. (I've seen footage of a thirty-something guy breaking his back jumping off of a bridge.)

[@ZaWrldo]

I think a very important point Charlie missed is that unbroken water acts as a solid, if you crash into unbroken water at high speed it's like jumping off a skyscraper into the pavement which is what causes the damage.

[@gamerule18]

Yeah surface tension is a bitch dude

[@BrassPlayr]

Just carry a rock and hurl it where you're about to land! Jk

[@levibull6063]

Remember those guys that would try to break speed records in boats ... then the boat flipped once ... hit the water and did 10 flips before touching the water then coming to a almost sudden halt Well I do

[@Technature7567]

But muh TV shows don't work like that.

[@RedMo46]

Watching them olympic skiiers do their massive practice jumps into pools was so confusing for that reason till i realized they were constantly churning the water they land in. Fascinating stuff imo

[@waori]

The scary part is there is no need for a shadow conspiracy to organise something like this. If you let a company turn human attention into profit without any meaningful regulation or responsibility, then these things are inevitable. Human psychology (especially young human psychology) is full of vulnerabilities that algorithms will find and exploit if you let them. If it doesn't affect tiktok's profits, it won't affect their algorithm.

[@MaxxRemKing1]

💯

[@clausroquefort9545]

THIS. people are always quick to suspect a conspiracy. they never stop and think how the systems we create allow stupid shit like this or the massive inequality caused by capitalism to just emerge naturally if noone intervenes. conspiracies require massive coordination, secrecy and unity of the manipulators. a self-sustaining (profitable) system that promotes the crap to float to the top just requires noone to give a shit about it.

[@Seebeejeebees]

True, but in this case it is literally the Chinese government using data mining and social manipulation via this app to influence and damage the youths of countries with opposing ideologies. And kids sign up willingly. Nuts.

[@petertaysum5563]

Nailed it, and who owns TT?

[@gravyz2cute4u]

Maybe the algorithm is the true shadow conspiracy :P jk

[@McCrapweasel]

I never thought of tiktok as a tool of natural selection... Nature finds a way.

[@winster32]

Darwinism strikes again.

[@CivilEngineerWroxton]

I totally agree with everything you said, peng. I’m SO sick of the words “tik tok” and “challenge” being stuck in the same sentence together and idiots ending up dead because of it. I just don’t know how many people have to die before the idiots of the world realize just how dangerous those words are that I mentioned above. I wish I’d never even heard of Tik Tok.

[@bugsy742]

😂 it’s nothing to do with tictoc - these people were never going to make it! 👍

[@DF-we4pt]

It’s not real. Didn’t happen. No one died

[@CivilEngineerWroxton]

@@DF-we4pt Oh, so the ones that died from Tide Pods didn’t really happen and the Benadryl drinking didn’t kill anyone and the myriad of others that occurred just didn’t happen. Yeah, I’ll just take your word for it. You’re a complete and utter stranger to me, but I’m supposed to just suddenly believe that you are the ultimate authority on anything and everything. Sure. Youbetcha. 🙄

[@CivilEngineerWroxton]

@@bugsy742 I’m sure you’re right, but TT is DESIGNED to draw in young people and kids and then it just organically grows from there. Even just one kid makes ANY kind of challenge on TT now and suddenly every kid who is on there constantly will at least try whatever it is that the new thing is, no matter how stupid or dangerous it is.

[@bugsy742]

@@CivilEngineerWroxton agreed mate 🤝👍

[@Gremlin_T._Squearfish]

It’s sad how the parents of these people spend their whole life’s caring for them and making huge sacrifices to raise them, and then have them die to a TikTok challenge.

[@wompppwompwomppp]

one of the people who died was in front of his wife and kids who were recording

[@karonuva]

I feel like if someone ends up doing this challenge it's a sign they actually weren't properly raised

[@KenithLemley]

​@@wompppwompwompppffs that's so stupid

[@Eye_Of_Odin978]

@@karonuva Yeah, to some extent that's true. But so what? Are we supposed to just sacrifice all our less fortunate youth to the god that is Chinese Spyware & Indoctrinatio- er, I mean "TikTok"? Yeah, that's stupid. This malicious Chinese software needs destroying and the CCP needs dismantling.

[@anakinlowground5515]

That’s bullshit. The only people doing this are the people whose parents let the internet raise them

[@DawnOfTheOzz]

I'm glad Charlie mentioned the Water Speed Record in this video cause it's one of the few speed records held by an Australian. Not that anyone hasn't tried since but there is a good reason why the speed record hasn't been broken since the 70s. Just to put that into perspective, the bloke who held the speed record, Ken Warby, built his boat in a shed using basically wood and old army surplus jet engines. His last record run was 511.11 km/h (317.59 mph) with the run peaking at 555 km/h (345 mph). And that was in a boat he built himself with essentially scraps. He was still trying to go for the record again but he passed away earlier this year. Top bloke was still looking to faster right until the end.

[@pizzlerot2730]

Pretty sure there are some records that only Australians are capable of holding, and that's one of them 👊 (and only a boat built in a shed using military surplus is capable of breaking it)

[@Goz969]

God rest his soul.

[@BananaRama1312]

​@@pizzlerot2730also: possesing the weirdest english accent

[@kami3449]

345 mph on water is in fucking sane!

[@SlotterYT]

He made it out of wood and army surplus jet engines? 😂 that’s f*ckin’ awesome!

[@XxShadowsPrimexX]

It is crazy what people will do to themselves. I heard from a nurse that they saw a suicidal guy who slit his wrist, poured gasoline over the same arm, and SET THAT ARM ON FIRE.

[@thedeviouspanda]

Did that cauterize the wound? My uninformed brain says it would.

[@doghouse416]

In reality this stuff has always gone on. In the 80's we "urban surfed" on cars in parking lots. That was relatively dangerous and as long as you kept your speed low, all would be well. Then it went to the roads and streets and kids started falling off and getting killed. It took years to gain any momentum, now with the internet, this stuff spreads immediately.

[@adamb89]

Yeah kids have always been stupid. As some stupid joke a bunch of us were joking about how to prove you're a man you stick your balls between the toilet seat and rim and sit down. It was a joke, thought nothing of it. About 30 minutes later we hear this horrible howl from the boy's room. One stupid kid actually went and did it lol

[@Kola25_97]

So that's where Volition got the idea for vehicle surfing in the Saints Row games.

[@soupcangaming662]

@yazmeliayzol624 "Quadruple dog dare!" *gets fucking dismembered*

[@estateofmine]

Yeah.. me and my friends would "rock surf" down steep slopes at construction sites... We were literally riding atop large sliding rocks. You would pick up an insane amount of momentum and jump off at the end, or in the middle, if you were unlucky.

[@amiatanamedmichelle5539]

When my mom went to college people tried something similar to logrolling, but with kegs and going down a hill instead of being on stagnant water. If the internet was around that would’ve been “the keg run challenge” or something more stupid than that.

[@imrustyokay]

I've known people who broke their arms because they fell off a speeding boat by accident, I don't know why any sane individual would do that intentionally. It's easy to blame TikTok for this, but let's be honest, history is full of people killing themselves doing stupid things because they wanted to look cool, we just don't remember them because they weren't cool.

[@kaynine9]

I’ll never forget. When I was a little kid, like 6, I asked my dad “ hey dad, why do people die when they jump off a bridge?”. He said “ because when they hit the water it’s like hitting a brick wall “. From that moment on, I never attempted to test that in any way

[@347Jimmy]

You never tried belly-diving into a swimming pool? Your dad was right, it might as well be concrete Gotta break that surface tension

[@akashtanwar1939]

I once asked my dad the exact same question. He said the same thing. Just that he used the word ‘floor’ instead of brick wall.

[@destroyur7476]

Man your dad is a great dad

[@maggie6152]

Surface tension is a crazy thing

[@Ilive_420]

​@@destroyur7476 For doing the bare minimum of answering a question any adult should know? :'D

[@IssaVoid]

The blackout challenge? Never heard of it but Charles just described every other drunken Saturday night

[@ponchosabio182_9]

At this point, TikTok is an online embodiment of an anarchy mixed with stupidity. People can just come up with whatever challenge they want no matter how dangerous or unlawful it is.

[@w12266]

​@Pyler..ok

[@spence6195]

Morally wrongful? You mean dangerous?

[@bitefesili]

anarchy is freedom. you sound very stupid here lmao. this isn't morally wrong is just dangerous

[@Idonthaveanythingtodo]

People want views, because it gives them money, and because money makes them buy the balenciaga and gucci to make them look "Unique", but its the total opposite

[@TravisaInc]

agreed

[@eybros]

To me honestly it's no longer surprising that people will do the most godawful things that are either extremely evil or stupid just for clout.

[@Its_THE_questionable_person]

Yeah, I just don’t understand why people don’t just stop and think, “Wait a minute, this is dangerous, this might hurt me, hell it could kill me, I should NOT do this, at all.” I have those moments where I’m about to do something really stupid and then I stop and go, “Wait, this is a dumb mistake I’m about to make, I should back out while I still can.” People rarely have that thought process anymore and it’s very alarming.

[@Hi-cm1cj]

​@@Its_THE_questionable_personWelcome to the mentality of TikTokers where common sense doesn't exist to them.

[@Shadestar-uk1xi]

@@Its_THE_questionable_person That's because tiktokers are too brain dead to figure out that they can't gain clout if their camera dies along with their heart -no pun intended

[@Salemchevy]

The hunt for clout is a poison that eats at the mind.

[@skybailey4792]

@@Its_THE_questionable_personDemocrats can’t think about themselves

[@robbysingh117]

What's really sad is I had a cousin pass away a couple weeks ago via drowning in the Danube. He was dared to jump in and they found his body 1 week later. Doing dangerous things on a dare/challenge is never worth it; and it often leaves family members to pick up the pieces once a loved one is lost.

[@Landon.trippy]

Sorry about your loss that’s insane- Hope you guys stay safe

[@robbysingh117]

@@Landon.trippy thanks man! Appreciate it.

[@alecrichards8574]

There was a guy a grade above me in high school the summer after he graduated died in a boating accident. I only knew of him through mutual friends and his sister, but it affected everyone massively. But that wasn't a stunt, it was a legit accident. FLICK these stupid trends, it literally destroys lives and scars others.

[@instafruit5121]

As a competitive swimmer, I know that just by incorrectly diving from a starting block you can really hurt yourself and they are not even that high up. So I really can't imagine why someone would voluntarily yeet themselves off a speeding boat, while probably not even thinking of how they will enter the water....

[@Dragoonsoul7878]

A common thing with kids is lack of information, in video games falling into water from any height breaks you falls, in real life you see diving boards high up at times. There is no reason to believe it can kill you because almost nothing showcases it is dangerous. The only way to learn that is by joining a group like you have or getting lucky.

[@BowlOSoup6661]

​@@Dragoonsoul7878 I'd rather fall on solid ground then get mega slapped by water

[@w18ftw]

@@Dragoonsoul7878 I was taught in elementary school that water can be just as hard of a surface as bricks when landing incorrectly. Is this information not taught anymore in schools?

[@Mephiles343]

​@@w18ftweven if it isn't,Fucking shit like belly flopping into a pool hurts like a BITCH,So that's definitely something i learned when i was younger

[@userequaltoNull]

@@BowlOSoup6661 Honestly, yeah. In water, chimps will drown.

[@ThatGuy-nc8nf]

It's sad thinking of the fact that someone out there had to experience immense pain to bring these people to the world only for them to be the recipient of a Darwin Award for a TikTok of all things.

[@MaxxRemKing1]

Such is life... And death 😂

[@jadebel7006]

I'd rather have them as kid then someone who is nasty about d*ad ppl... rather be related to stup*d ppl that sc*mbags

[@Yukira56]

@juscbhbhuvsdsdvbhjwsdv3843 You can't always parent out the stupid in people.

[@Ealsante]

Eh, if they experienced the pain but didn't put in the work to raise kids with functioning brains, that's partly on them too. A good parent doesn't bring up a dumbass who thinks jumping off a speeding boat is a good idea.

[@kaden-sd6vb]

​@@Ealsantethis right here ^

[@adox8574]

It's easy for someone my age (late millennial) to think stupid behavior is more common than ever. But really, it's just the fact that social media makes it possible for trends to have a much further reach and influence. There really isn't much of a change in people. People have always been reckless and stupid. The difference is me and my friends had to be creative to be idiotic.

[@helmholtzthemulewatson4763]

There is nothing new about this. Kids have always done stupid and dangerous shit. Most of the time with no real consequences but when things go bad today then you want to pin it to a boggyman of some sort. For example in the town next to me a two boys lit a couple of gas containers on fire and then the older boy decided it would be really cool to kick one of the containers resulting in serious burns over most of his body. When I was 9 a girl who lived down the street from me shot me dead between the eye with a BB from less then ten feet away with enough psi to draw blood. I saw boy two doors down from me fall out of a tree and broke his arm even though he was only like 5 ft off the ground and maybe a mount later I saw the boy next door down fall 30ft out of a tree in my backyard without a bruise. None of these people had home internet much less an ipad. None of them died but you get the point nothing but bad luck separating a dead kid from a kid with a little blood on his forehead.

[@thevalorousdong7675]

​@@helmholtzthemulewatson4763You can't even spell 'boogy' We ain't listening to your BS lil bro

[@tribalismblindsthembutnoty124]

It was more common with those of us who were exposed to massive amounts of lead bc leaded gas was a thing. We died from cutting off semis while drunk and jumping off bridges as a farce. We got in to homemade 4 wheel vehicles and jumped tracks. We drowned in fast rivers and proved the gun wasn't loaded by pointing it at our heads and pulling the trigger. These are all things kids in my generation (X) did to take themselves out of the gene pool. I knew them all personally. Now, did you know anyone who died? No? Then its not worse now than before.

[@-..-..-..-..-..-..-..-..-..]

in our era they called stuff like this Backyard trends. everything dangerous we did, they labeled it a backyard trend

[@thehibernatortv1136]

The above replies not only miss the point but they prove it: All speaking from their personal experience regarding the people they directly witnessed, we now not only experience the same goofiness from kids down the street, but now they're recording it and challenging other youths across the world to do it whom never would've imagined the idea. The only difference between getting shot between the eyes by a BB gun today and 30 years ago is that now it's probably on camera and some deranged kid across the planet laughed at it on TikTok and asks for a BB gun for his birthday.

[@cooper2723]

Bro nobody does this

[@goofygoober485]

Shout me out bro

[@setatimerforonehour]

frrrrr 😭😭 like I love charlie but no one is doing this 💀

[@dakotawitmer6517]

When you mentioned hating these incidents being labeled "challenges", I no longer felt crazy for thinking the same thing.

[@rosasrebelwritings]

As a life guard when Charlie is confused about how people don’t get how dangerous bodies of water are it is refreshing to see someone outside of aquatics recognize how dangerous water pools lakes oceans are. Unless you grow up in water sports or close to the ocean, most people lack common sense with swimming and water sports. I constantly feel frustrated bc it’s mostly grown ass adults too. At least little kids will listen and understand water is scary. Like people know they can’t do something yet still do it so it’s hard to feel bad. I see this with people going to the deep end in pools (like 15 plus feet) and admit to not knowing how to swim.

[@twicedeadmage]

I'm no life guard but I've pulled out 5 kids from rivers close to my house that were about to drown and seeing the parents not paying any mind while their kids swim made my shit boil. It's like they can't understand that it isn't "something that happens to someone else". Mate, we've pulled corpses out of those rivers, why aren't you looking at your damn kid?

[@patrickhenry8425]

Water isn't scary. lol

[@twicedeadmage]

@@patrickhenry8425 Jump into the ocean then

[@SanAntonioJoker]

​@@patrickhenry8425you love water so much, why don't you let the ocean stay in your home?

[@patrickhenry8425]

@@twicedeadmage I do. Every day.

[@SoundBubble]

I'd really like to see a study done on the origins of these kinda trends. I just wonder if it's really just stupid kids thinking of those trends or are they deliberately thinking of dumb ideas to troll the internet, like the time 4Chan convinced people to microwave their iPhones. Then again, "challenges" and "initiation rituals" and the like have always been a thing, even long before the internet. So I guess we're just living in a time where these same impressionable kids get convinced by the internet to do dumb stuff rather than by their peers.

[@kobunnight]

It's less like the microwaveable iPhone ad, and more like the mustard gas kitchen recipe to make "cool crystals".

[@I_am_a_cat_]

The intro to this video made me have a thought.. imagine bored rich people in china, right. People forget how much China hates us. They have money to do anything, and enjoy seeing "stupid americans" die in shameful ways, so they start these "trends" by paying some influencers to start it, and then laugh as dumb kids inevitably die from it. I don't necessarily think this is the case, but it also really wouldn't surprise me at all if it was. Also it could be rich people anywhere, obviously. My mind just goes to China because its tiktok. China OWNS it.

[@redcherry8137]

Well rumor has it, china wont let these trends into the Chinese TikTok but they'll flood Americans and other countries tiktok app full of this type of challenge stuff

[@TiktokBurnedMyCrops]

At least the microwaved iphones were kind of funny

[@krmulliger]

Or the time 4chan convinced someone to delete system32… Or the time 4chan convinced people to make mustard gas, by making instructionals for growing crystals on a string with Chlorine and Bleach… Or the time 4chan convinced people that qanon was a real thing… Etc. etc. etc.

[@malcolmmorin]

They died for a challenge that will be forgotten in a week.

[@KrackmcKitty]

I lost a schoolmate to something like this, granted it was before TikTok existed, but I will never forget the hurt such a loss caused everyone. People, don't throw away your life, not even for a second should you do these risky behaviors. I know people wanna feel alive, but I assure you LIVING is as alive as you can get. I'm a huge safety nut because it's literally so easy for humans to just perish due to anything really.

[@AdrianMero26]

Fr

[@AUDIOPHILEHARDCORE]

Would you be open to telling the story? (No names, sensitive info etc, just to satiatw my morbid curiosity)

[@surgeyibrahimovic5013]

Same. A good friend of mine was tubing behind a boat and he got whipped a little to hard to one side so the rope got real slack and he flipped off the tube and rolled somehow getting the rope wrapped around his neck. The boat was still traveling at a good speed and if you’ve ever been tubing you know the rope instantly snaps back to tension pulling the tube. Well it instantly snapped his neck and you could imagine the horror that followed. This was back around 2007 or so

[@TexasVexes]

I agree living is alive.

[@tribalismblindsthembutnoty124]

other ways to throw away your life Driving while tired Being drunk at a gas station Being drunk at a waffle house Not complying with police Eating to obesity Not owning a ..... well i can't say the word and expect anyone to see this. I got a license to have one. I am a disabled 5' woman.

[@GreenRasqberries]

I used to be on my school’s dive team and let me tell you: the amount of bruises I got from smacking water is a testament to how dangerous it is. I even got concussed one time from doing a dive wrong. The diving boards aren’t even that high (around 6 feet I’m fairly sure?) so if I managed to get injuries from diving off a 6ft high board, imagine what would happen if you jumped off a boat going 60 miles per hour…

[@APG93]

Fellow past swimmer/diver here and I just posted my story above, but yeah... Don't do this people lmao. Physics doesn't f around. 😂

[@Naptosis]

There's a good reason divers put their hands out in front of them! That's your crumple-zone.

[@Salemchevy]

It is really physics 101 a object moving at a high velocity hitting a surface like that will always leave damage. Like you said and hell people don’t seem to know as much but bullets from a firearm can’t even move under water but just a few feet

[@APG93]

@@Naptosis I'm well aware of streamline. But when you're diving off an object moving at 40-50 mph that's a great way of tearing your rotator cuff.

[@Undeadpriest94]

@@Salemchevy Hell, there's bullets that will be flatten on the surface of waters rather than going through, as if hitting a solid surface rather than "going through water".

[@Juissix]

It is sad how these challenges have become increasingly frequent over the years. It feels like these people are losing their survival instinct more and more over time.

[@arsenelupiniii8040]

New evolution!! I think it is great, But i have autism and a higher IQ and EQ. Not enough resources to keep the booger eaters housed and fed anymore. The Earth is worth more than that. I hope they keep it up .

[@Salemchevy]

The hunt and want for clout is more dangerous then most people know. Lot of people don’t want to build clout slowly over time they want it now

[@eternallyconfusedneveraware]

That's the worst part. When you hear "There's a new TikTok trend putting people's lives at risk" and you're not even remotely surprised.

[@harukayuuki9442]

At this point its just natural selection, the stupid people are weeding themselves out lol

[@arsenelupiniii8040]

@@eternallyconfusedneveraware Oh it's so exciting! I was wondering how the heck one could help cull the herd, and here it is.

[@pm5206]

Tik Tok knows how to delete people. Literally.

[@kilmer5435]

If their survival instincts aren't blaring the alarms when they see these "challenges" and think this totally isn't dumb AF, I'd say this is natural selection at its finest.

[@JOE_XD]

It's called the Spider-Sense

[@Brawler1216]

It is, this is funny af 😂😂😂😂

[@jessestinson9252]

Yup good riddance

[@griggorirasputin6555]

People will stay put in burning buildings if firemen tell them to, emotional connections are what drives human beings, these people aren’t geniuses, but there’s no need to masturbate over their deaths like so many seem to be doing.

[@junbinseo2978]

Couldn't agree more, at least it's weeding out the people who are lacking in situational awareness. We don't need them breeding, least we can do is have them die for some stupid trend they think is "fun"

[@shutupsprinkles]

My mom grew up on a lake, and instilled water safety in me as a young child. Every time people die from doing stupid things in the water-jumping off fast boats, not wearing a life vest at the lake/on a small boat in the ocean, going swimming in a river during extreme snowmelt. Like come on.

[@DubYuhGChoppa]

This isn't the first time and I'm sure it won't be the last. Clout is genuinely an addiction

[@dragonriderabens9761]

Agreed We really need to get it classified as a genuine drug

[@sebbog]

@Pyler.. yeah sh up

[@mikehunt4797]

Next will be the jump out of a moving car at 50 MPH challenge and some idiots will do it.

[@MGVK2277]

Take me back to the good times when if you posted some shit on the internet and it didn't get popular, you didn't give a crap

[@saschaberger3212]

I say it's psychological warfare by the Chinese

[@HourRomanticist]

The irony of getting a TikTok ad on this video.

[@rubybishop8749]

I'm an Australian, and we're taught from birth how much respect you need to give water. Its insanity what those people are attempting.

[@Bananasplitsssz]

You can say that again. Its shocking how illogical people have become.

[@mambamentality4483]

Wish we were taught that here in America tbh along with other stuff.

[@HiItsMars]

@@mambamentality4483 don’t blame our country man. Your parents failed you if you weren’t taught such a thing.

[@mambamentality4483]

@@HiItsMars then who taught their parents and parents parents. Its gotten to a point where I believe common sense needs to be taught. By our education system. Yes our country, gov needs to step in. I have seen it with my own two eyes. So many young ppl these days have no remorse for their actions in public and don’t respect boundaries. Something has to be done. Morals and common sense must be taught somehow.

[@paperlacejane]

​@@mambamentality4483 Dude. 'then who taught their parents and parents parents' -- THEIR PARENTS. Stop trying to outsource teaching that should be done by parents to schools. It's not f-ing algebra or rocket science. It's parents saying "be careful around water," "never turn your back on the sea," "stop fucking doing that, you'll break your neck", "that's literal poison, dumbass", "don't touch that, it'll set you on fire". It's a parent's job to teach the child first and foremost, especially basic-bitch survival knowledge. Common sense has always been taught -- it's meant to be taught by parents and family.

[@BBoy4040]

"Video game violence causes real life violence." TikTok trends with actual body counts:

[@Miasaint10]

They aren't ready to talk about that though. 🤷

[@amor7886]

tiktok isn’t that bad pls

[@AE-or7xd]

​@@amor7886stfu all he did was point out an irrefutable fact

[@cheddarsunchipsyes8144]

@@amor7886single celled organism

[@Hi-cm1cj]

​@@amor7886You're purposely ignoring the dangerous trends on that app.

[@JustaKeven]

The main reason I deleted TikTok was because of how brain dead I felt on the app just constant stupidity being thrown at me.

[@BowlOSoup6661]

Yep never downloaded it, when I saw it for the first time in an ad I immediately thought to myself "this is retarded"

[@theinvisiblebrick636]

I never got it, I've always hated tiktok due to all the "zombies" (in other words, mindless people who are completely disconnected with reality).

[@destroyur7476]

I'm glad I never got this app

[@railworksamerica]

I never downloaded it because a) it’s stupid and b) I don’t have enough room on my phone

[@arsenelupiniii8040]

I still have never seen it. But I used to program back in the 80 when i was in my teens. I saw the writing on the wall way beck then.

[@cyberdelicxp9125]

I fully encourage all people wanting to do deadly tiktok challenges to do them constantly, without restraint, second thoughts, or caution. Please do them more. You will b so internet famous that all your dreams will come true

[@SpicyChickenSammichPodcast]

As someone who has once hydroplaned over 20 feet spinning end over end like a wayward soup can, I can confirm that going 15mph+ on water is scary

[@JOE_XD]

Done a lot a water skiing and face-planting at 35kmh isn't that bad (from the front), but at 80-100kmh from the side, better have a strong neck to survive. At that speed water feels like asphalt/concrete, it's like jumping off a car on the highway/freeway.

[@MastemaJack]

I was dragged underwater 20ft when I first learned to water ski. But I did a dumb and didn't let go

[@Sbinott0]

Wtf I did the thing where they tow you on a rubber thingy at 50+ mph while trying to make you fall down, never knew it was so dangerous

[@filip9564]

​@@JOE_XDthe water is hard but not like asphalt. If you land correctly there is a possibility to survive a 80kmh fall in water. Not possible on asphalt

[@JOE_XD]

@@filip9564 Yeah not hard as asphalt, maybe like an 1'' of padding, very smooth..

[@misterpanic73]

As a wise man once said, “Don’t weep for the stupid, you’ll be crying all day.”

[@jerseythedog]

Parents used to ask “Would you follow your friends as they jump off of a cliff?” That used to be a rhetorical question. Times have changed.

[@Hmmmdot]

now its "would you watch your friends jump off a boat at high speeds?"

[@mydobie130]

Hitting water is like hitting concrete. I have wiped out doing water-skiing tricks. Its brutal.

[@CrAAAstastic]

As a SCUBA instructor I have always been fascinated how on one hand people always underestimate how dangerous water can be and yet how terrified they can get instantly while surrounded by it ;)

[@josephmother2659]

There are people who legitimately believe they could fight off a bloodthirsty Wolf/bear/wolverine when in reality they would be dead in 2-3 seconds and do nothing. The issue is that when slightly more rational people apply this logic to water, it seems to be a lot less “dangerous” simply because it’s not obviously and immediately dangerous nearly all the time. I can’t even really call it overconfidence or hubris, some people don’t spend time around bodies of water and aren’t aware of the danger. You can drown in an inch of water in the right conditions, add in currents, depth, lack of swimming ability and endurance, diving from high heights, rocks/trees/animals that are invisible beneath the surface, and pretty much anything can go wrong, which people aren’t used to treating water that we drink every day as a potential catastrophe waiting to happen.

[@goku445]

Maybe because we lived 9 months in a liquid before we were born.

[@TightTautog]

freediver here. Water, especially the ocean is stinkin' scary if you think about it. It needs to be taken seriously

[@donaldjz]

TITAN

[@jchristHeckYeah]

ANOTHER!

[@Kaean11isboss]

I worked as a waterfront director at a kids summer camp where boats are supposed to stay at least 500 feet away. I can’t tell you how many times I had to scream at people for driving too close or fast. One time a jet skier was going full speed 2 ft from the rocky shoreline and nearly could’ve killed himself. Way too many drunk idiots on vehicles they don’t know how to drive. Not surprised something like this happened when combined w TikTok.

[@TheBigHog07]

The fact that we can get a story like this about people actually dying over a stupid internet trend and just continue to expect it to happen, is quite scary.

[@ilove_dr.pepper.]

And that we’re 100% right ab the fact that it will happen again

[@arsenelupiniii8040]

I fully promote this stupid trend and other lethal gags!! Please do more!

[@axe2grind244]

What’s scary is the widening gap in intelligence from a typical 20 year old in 1998 to a typical 20 year old now….whom btw has every bit of information at their fingertips.

[@skybailey4792]

Scary? It’s funny

[@TheKillerMB1]

im glad these challenges show us who the dumb people are

[@beesa1t]

When everything’s been done online people have to find something more and more shocking to get a reaction from the public.

[@crazycowcraft350]

So far death is the way I guess

[@mikehunt4797]

Next will be the jump out of a moving car at 50 MPH challenge and some idiots will do it.

[@Idonthaveanythingtodo]

The amount of competition, stupidness, and the agressive praise towards popularity only brings savage people to make everything to draw attention to them... Theres many ways to be popular in this word, but to be popular doing the same shid as society, is impossible .

[@JeromeProductions]

Exactly

[@niceto_meet_you2528]

It’s annoying how they become trends. You’d think these “influencers” would be happy to think of something original but instead they just hop on stupid trends.

[@FernandoJCruz-kt1zo]

Back in the day I used to say the cinamon challenge was not a challenge, it was just attempted suicide and I also jokingly said if there was a "kill yourself" challenge people would try to do it, and the scary thing about it is, with every new challenge that morbid joke I made years ago is becoming true.

[@fiftyzanes]

good on you for seeing right through it & not falling for those dumb trends!! it’s crazy how prone kids (& even adults) can be to attempting all kinds of self destructive behaviours

[@jamesbeatty-wilson5290]

Attempts domiciled

[@blouburkette]

George Carlin actually does a bit about this in his 2006 special Life is Worth Losing. He calls it the "pyramid of suicide." Pretty funny and depressing stuff.

[@Pietelt]

@@fiftyzanes it's just common sense, nothing to be proud of. We should be ashamed there is actually someone who did this instead.

[@RedMo46]

Choking game. If youre old enough thatll ring some bells

[@stephenl6948]

Every time I see a headline like this regarding TikTok, I fear for my sisters who both use TikTok a lot. I actually asked my sister if she knows jumping off a speeding boat kills a person, and she said she didn't know (she goes to Cornell and is a very smart person, and she doesn't do TikTok challenges). I know I might get made fun of, but I never learned the lesson about the danger of jumping off speeding boats either, I just knew that water isn't safe to land in at high heights. Obviously, I knew the Blackout challenge was a terrible idea and many other 'challenges', but it scares me that many people blindly engage in activities without verifying safety. These people were probably kids or young adults who didn't even consider the possibility of death or injury. TikTok is a platform for mindless stimulation that encourages a kind of mob mentality; people doing bizarre things to gain attention or likes.

[@Nice-im3jb]

@@kevinortiz2597while i agree with the sentiment of “be there for your people,” the assertion that an older brother can control what their sister consumes is absurd, esp sonce shes in college. Even in jr. high, you cant even control what you consume yourself - your friends just show you stuff regardless if you want to or not. What can you can be is a safe confidant and advisor.

[@神林しマイケル]

So this is the NA education system. No wonder. You guys lack critical thinking, every school outside the US drills critical thinking to students.

[@kindauncool]

+@@kevinortiz2597 bro she goes to Cornell

[@kindauncool]

Tbh I didn't know that jumping off of a speeding boat kills a person but that doesn't mean that I'd do it.

[@ansalem12]

The reason hitting water from a high height is dangerous is literally because of the speed you will be moving when you hit. Heights don't kill people, the speed of impact does.

[@abbshurz]

Idiocracy becoming reality every day. That movie is disturbingly prophetic.

[@sybsygstgstsgysg5330]

The thing about the tide pod challenge is that it wasn’t even a challenge. It started as a joke, then the news called it a challenge, and so people started doing it

[@beavis6157]

Barely anyone did it, it's obvious you never had tik tok

[@sybsygstgstsgysg5330]

@@beavis6157 well yeah I never had tiktok, I don’t want china spying on me and my attention span disintegrated, and I never said a lot of people did it too

[@pinkperfumefairy9205]

​@@sybsygstgstsgysg5330"attention span disintegrated" yea yea I can obviously tell you are a kid by those 3 words alone 💀

[@sybsygstgstsgysg5330]

@@pinkperfumefairy9205 “💀” i can tell you’re a kid by that one emoji alone

[@Randomlad56]

@@pinkperfumefairy9205yes, how dare they critique the almighty Chinese spyware we use so often

[@Narull]

As someone with a stoma due to bowel removal from bowel cancer I would totally own that "Take a shit without wiping challenge". Great example I just had to have a laugh at it for me personally, these 'challenges' are modern day natural selection at work I swear.

[@tinpotmst]

and you just embarrass yourself cause it smells like shit LOL

[@mikadosannoji553]

gotta Optimize your speedruns

[@America17760]

As a scientist currently studying how human bodies are affected when they hit water at high speeds, I can indeed confirm that "when you jump off of it, you hit the water hard as shit"

[@hollowgonzalo4329]

We need a toaster fork challenge. See how close you can get it to the metal bits while she's plugged in and if you get zapped cause they touched you lose.

[@dotar9586]

Bonus points if you do it while siting in a bathtub. 👍

[@PyroApple562]

Don't give them ideas. They'll take you seriously 😂

[@auquitaine9201]

@@PyroApple562 Good, people dumb enough to do shit like this are just cleaning the gene pool

[@GeorgeMonet]

It doesn't really do anything. I've done that many times and nothing happened. You aren't completing a circuit and there is a lot of resistance in your body.

[@thebigpicture2032]

This trend already happened when toasters first came out

[@Totalcryptid]

Hearing about this scared the lights out of me. My sister is a frequent user of TikTok and is what one would definitely consider a rather stereotypical teenage girl. She is by no means stupid of course. But she is very subject to peer pressure. She has obviously become much meaner since she’s entered her real teenage years so she’s harder to communicate with as well. I worry for her. I don’t know much about her friends but I hear things from my mother. Thankfully since she goes to a private school with a lot of sheltered children there is a low likelihood she will get into a lot of the regular life damaging troubles teens face but the thing that worries me is shit like this. I don’t know. Maybe I worry too much but in the end I’m her older sibling so I guess that’s kind of my job. God. I hate this kind of shit ok the internet. Can we go back to saying silly names to the bathroom mirror at midnight?

[@StopYTShorts]

She’s smart but succumbs to peer pressure so she’s still stupid. Bruh 💀

[@yatshie8717]

My little brother wants to be smart (he is but he wants to act smart) and whenever I see sh*t like this I always show him and say like "look how f*ing stupid this is, who's stupid enough to do this".

[@Christy.1]

That's to a T how my youngest daughter is. She's 17 now, and finally starting to get it overall. But whoooo the past 2 years have been hell. All I can tell you is, keep nagging her about stuff that's bad, eventually she'll hear the same a few times from someone else she trusts-like another kid's parent. She'll eventually realize you know what you're talking about and listen.

[@goaway9923]

@@yatshie8717 Your little brother sounds amazing

[@michelehemlokhexwhite4310]

Private schools are often full of kids with richer parents who have toys...like boats...though.

[@gabethebaeb_5881]

It's like a vicious cycle. People will throw their dignity away, sacrifice their self respect, and just become a sheep for internet popularity. I've stopped caring about it too; Tik Tok or just social media in general is destroying people.

[@MAX-de8fe]

You've stopped caring about your dignity too?😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 L

[@erikfinkel2717]

00:46 I'm glad you explained why it's a bad idea jumping up a boat at high speeds without using any science or math jargon to confuse the folks in Alabama.

[@DoMorrMusic]

😐

[@juanospitia]

@@DoMorrMusic white

[@soupcangaming662]

@@juanospitia color

[@SuzA8110]

This type of thing has happened for many years. Way before TicTok. Where do you think your parents got the question "If your friends jumped off a bridge/cliff would you do it too?"

[@livenotonevil8279]

I once tried to scoop water into a large bucket over the side of a fairly slow moving boat. Almost ripped my arms off, and luckily I wasn't pulled into the water.

[@TheOnlyUmbrilla]

This is proof that anyone will do literally anything for clout. Good or bad. Wouldn't be surprised if someone went skydiving without a parachute as an "internet challenge."

[@slump2p]

alr happened

[@Dr.Livingdark]

Hello fellow Rover enjoyer

[@tommkc]

Not anyone, just the clout chaser.

[@barcelodrums9530]

"Skydiving without parachute challange! (Gone wrong)"

[@sorenkazaren4659]

It is funny hearing Charlie talk about people not understanding how dangerous water is because it reminded me of my senior year in high school. This was 11 years ago and I found out half of the government class I was in didn’t know how to swim. For context, we live in Michigan, a place where you literally cannot stand at any point in the state without being within 6 miles of an inland lake.

[@TheDrizzle404]

Swimming is as easy as having air in your lungs.

[@prettyokandy230]

@@TheDrizzle404 yet people that can't swim drown...

[@LordPichuPal]

I also live in Michigan and I can't swim either. It's not that unheard of. I had a traumatic experience of nearly drowning in a pool when I was 7, developed really bad aquaphobia as I grew older because of it, stopped wanting to go in pools or water altogether by the time I was 15. The last time I even attempted to join a friend and his family in a shallow lake to go swimming, I got too freaked out that I couldn't leave the beach or go within 10 feet of the water, which was a good 7 years ago now. But I never learned how to do it and any time I went in a pool as a teenager, I'd just stay in shallow water where I could touch the ground.

[@a.r.4822]

@@LordPichuPal just learn how to swim then it's not hard. Comming from a neckbeard that learnt swimming at age 11 (which is considered late)

[@Victtimus]

​@@prettyokandy230it's panic that drowns them. People who can't swim can still float.

[@thelivingdrawing2262]

Clearly public education isn't teaching physics very well to people. Not very surprising.

[@signofthecrimes1534]

it's so hard to have sympathy for them because it could have been easily avoidable.

[@wongwong1517]

When a black kid attacks a police officer and reaches for his gun:

[@Brawler1216]

Right, Darwin Award for these stupid people, woo! 😂😂😂

[@creasedhorizon8931]

@@wongwong1517 You could have just said when someone reaches for the officers gun you know

[@meoff7602]

​@@wongwong1517Yeah and I'm totally going take the lying cop's word for it.

[@RainbowDashShadesOfApproval]

​@@wongwong1517Wtf? Wierdo.

[@coolbunny]

You know it's bad when at this point we hear news like this, shrug, say "damn, that sucks", and move on. Like it's 2023; if you're *still* making up and/or doing stupid challenges without any precautions, you're a lost cause. 🤷‍♂️

[@Randomlad56]

Indeed, from a young age I was prepared for the world to be evil and cruel but I was never prepared for it also be this fake and stupid

[@onamattapeeya]

A clear example of Darwinism

[@Eduardo_Espinoza]

Yes the Darwin challenge

[@onamattapeeya]

@@Randomlad56 lol that's a good point, I was warned about predators and I was warned about peer pressure, I was not warned about people as a whole, that even kind well-intentioned people can be morons and stand in the way of progress, and I mean true progress not this far-left Progressive BS, so much day-to-day frustration we have to deal with because of stupid people, even in the government, I got three letters from A government entity over a two-month period, the first letter was to tell me my benefits were being raised by $2, the second letter was to told me that my benefits were being lowered by $1 and third letter was to tell me that there would be no further change, so three letters worth of paper wasted over $1

[@onamattapeeya]

@@Eduardo_Espinoza the original darling challenge was probably a berry bush and a couple of people trying to decide who would eat them first,

[@suucat]

We need to remove the warning labels of stuff and let the problem fix for itself.

[@TwoSpark55]

I think Bill Burr had a bit "if we removed all the warning labels for a year..... then maybe we will never have to deal with nut allergies again?"

[@flightmaster1213]

Tik tok is synonymous with ignorance and room temp IQ’s at this point

[@ProfessorThock]

Now that “heating” is confirmed (they manually make specific creators or videos go viral) it is way more terrifying to think of someone at TikTok deliberately pushing dangerous challenges

[@Delsin42]

Elaborate

[@levelhumor2nd790]

A TikTok “moderator” chose that video to go viral, modifying its “algorithm” to make it pop up more often for everyone. So someone chose the boat vid to go viral

[@JimboPro]

what

[@burp2019]

confirmed where?

[@c0wmane]

source?

[@bettyb1313]

My son had a friend who died when they we're 15 from a bicycle accident doing stupid kid's suff. Well before the internet was a thing. His death still haunt's everyone, his loss was so profound to his parents they only had one child him... His name was Henry

[@Projection_]

Not only the boat impact at 1:15, but also like 99% of boats have props, so if they're jumping off the front or back, there is a chance the prop can actually shred them up like diced tomatoes.

[@kylie9246]

nobody actually died doing that challenge in Alabama. Alabama's Law Enforcement Agency (Marine Division) spoke about how there are currently no recorded deaths linked to the trend on Tiktok. The people that made the claim were just volunteers from the group Childersburg Rescue Squad.

[@9xavie]

Sad how weird challenges have been so normalized that the poop without wiping challenge actually sounds real

[@TheSuperappelflap]

i want to see the "stick your head out the train window in a tunnel" challenge

[@amatistate]

@@TheSuperappelflapDon’t give them ideas

[@Googlysaur]

⁠@@TheSuperappelflapnah I’m waiting for the “skydive without a parachute” challenge

[@appledragonfiend2839]

It is real, and the people doing it see absolutely nothing wrong with it.

[@WhatIsThatThingDoing]

Drain your brake fluid without replacing challenge

[@ProbablyCathy]

This saddens me for a number of reasons that Charlie shared so eloquently as he does. However, it also makes me appreciate my parents, once again and in a big way. I'm in my early 60's. I started swimming lessons at three years old. I don't imagine there was a lot of skill being learned at first. The point was to learn how to interact with water, respect its power without flat out fearing or avoiding it altogether. I continue to be a strong swimmer today, enjoy it immensely, continue to do it in both pools and natural settings. I will also never forget the at-least-one-time-each-summer when on our yearly vacations to the NJ Shore, I would be caught off guard by a powerful wave or current and scrape the entire front of body by being roughly washed up onto beach and/or swallowing a nasty amount of salty water which would then tend to shoot out my nose... ugh. That was not fun, it was to be avoided, but it did not cause me or my sisters to panic, which was an important component of those early swim lessons. Mom used to give us a Brach's butterscotch candy to suck on after one of those episodes - I'm not sure about my sisters, but I STILL cannot eat those. LOL! All of this reminiscing is to say that the understanding of and healthy respect for the remarkable power of water is a good thing for all people - the smart as well as the not-so-smart. Start early and you can possibly be as weird a story-teller as I am. 🙄 edit: because, for some reason, I cannot properly proofread until my post is posted. I'm a weirdo, I tell ya'. 😆😆😆

[@mlgplayer2169]

Thank u for sharing ur Amazing story, it was nice to read and learnt a thing or two about the power of water😄 thank u once again!

[@LunTheOptimist]

It genuinely befuddles me how could anyone do these trends and not see a problem with them.

[@Pylen2]

Ikr

[@theussmirage]

Especially when it could be done safely by jumping off a slow moving boat. I guess you don't go viral unless you're going 100 MPH

[@ceefar10]

Apparently fake internet points > unsnapped neck 🤦

[@theussmirage]

@@chriscanavanii9064 Thats a good point.

[@scarlett8782]

brain rot from social media

[@allys744]

Pretty much all of these “trends” or “challenges” were seen by normal people as dangerous things. Now, they’re encouraged and done for clicks. Honestly, we’re living in a real life twilight zone episode

[@lotkf1]

If you're moving fast enough, water may as well be asphalt because of a little thing called "surface tension". In the end, they made the choice to do it. Everyone should, at least once in their lives, not go with the crowd; rather stand outside of the crowd and observe it. You will gain perspective doing so.