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    Parents and psychiatrists have been trying to wrap their heads around how some of the more dangerous Internet trends take off, especially among kids.

    Kids are dumb and they do dumb things. There’s not really that much to wrap one’s head around.

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      And it’s not even like Internet trends are a new thing. TikTok has simply offered a platform that’s extra predatory about it.

      I can imagine that TikTok has been for Internet trends, to what slot machines did for gambling.

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        Anyone else remember kids watching videos of other kids nearly choking to death on cinnamon, and thinking “hey this looks like fun”?

        Or the “chug a gallon of milk” thing? Those “trends” were just weirdly masochistic and sadistic. It wasn’t even misinformation or anything. Kids watched other kids suffer, and then chose to suffer too.

        I can imagine that TikTok has been for Internet trends, to what slot machines did for gambling.

        It’s closer to what mobile apps did for gambling. Crazy how quickly that was normalized in the US, and it’s tragic how easily people can just delete thousands of dollars from their bank account on a whim from the comfort of their couch.

        I guess what I’m saying is, maybe sometimes children and adults really do need some protection from their stupid impulses.

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        Yeah, like, first time?

        The presentation has changed slightly but the content is much the same. Back in the good old days I was a moderator on Totse forums (the original, but its web bulletin board incarnation and not when it was a BBS) and we literally had an entire subforum just titled “Bad Ideas.” This was where things got launched, torched, smoked, blown up, stolen, scammed, or otherwise mutilated. Or at the very least all of the above talked about, at length. All of this with an strong implicit suggestion to try it yourself. Most of the kiddos did not actually have the means to pull of what they claimed they did but the ones who could and more importantly had the means to prove it were celebrities. Usually only for a short time, for various reasons.

        The early Internet was basically just a repository for bickering about Star Trek, low grade porn, plans for how to build potato cannons, or schemes involving smoking dried banana peels. An immense amount of stupidity has always been there to be found, because the place was and is full of teenagers and teenagers are stupid.

        I sure was, when I was one.

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    Perhaps it’s more like “Kids short-circuiting school issued chromebooks because of excessive surveillance.”

    …but probably not (or at least, not entirely) because many kids are dumb.

    source: was a dumb kid.

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        It’s school property with a camera and microphone in their homes lol

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          You’re assuming that they’re ones that leave the school property. You’re also assuming that they are constantly recording audio and video, which being chromebooks we know they’re most likely not since they’re low spec low storage devices since they’re cloud based.

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            This is also assuming there’s some mastermind at the school compiling all this data versus some teacher working essentially a second job dealing with broken chromebooks every day because kids are irresponsible. Suggeating this is anything but good old fashioned vandalism of school property is ludicrous, but it’s also an expected conclusion for here on Lemmy. Some of the comments in this thread are seriously unhinged.

            To sum it up, kids are dumb and always have been and it’s nothing more than that.

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              Check out the down/up votes on your comment vs mine, and also the stupid conspiracy theory one I replied to. People on here are so brainwashed that they follow every dogpile they see, which in this case is purely because of who is saying something - me in this case. I’ve got a bunch of lemmings following every comment I make across instances just spouting hatred and abuse and downvoting and reporting everything. An admin has even confirmed to me that 90% of the reports they get, and there are lots, are from the same users over and over and over on every comment I make.

              Lemmy is so far beyond gone it’s not even funny at this point. The actual reality and truth doesn’t matter, only what the mob decides does.

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                Yeah, here and Reddit, I find myself nodding along often enough, and that’s when I know I should perhaps adjust my viewpoint, just for the sake of making sure I’m not just nodding along. It’s unfortunate you’re perhaps being brigaded a bit, but it doesn’t matter. I say what I’m gonna say, people can think whatever. I like to think that we can come here speak on things, have philosophical discussions, but it feels like sometimes the whole discussion has been aimed in a certain direction before it even got underway.

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                  Yeah I don’t care about “karma” or any scores, but I do like to use it as a way to gauge the “temperature” of the conversation. As soon as the dogpiling starts happening, and benign comments that are in no way disagreeable - or even the same as other comments that are highly upvoted - are mass downvoted, you know that you’re in a circle jerk echo chamber.

                  I’ll happily continue voicing my opinion and defending my stance, but I know it’s a losing battle because the majority aren’t here to actually learn or discuss or change their minds - they’re here to circle jerk and tell each other how bad the thing they hate is and shame those who don’t hate it as much as they do.

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            Hi there, I’m currently in highschool. You don’t understand how school laptops work. There was a court case where a school laptop was recording from a child’s home - it actually happened.

            Also when you shut the screen it doesn’t turn off all the way. I’ve had times where I shut the screen, out it in my bag and 45 minutes later on my Bluetooth headphones I’ll head the windows notification sound.

            And just for clarity, do I personally believe that they are spying with audio/video? probably not tbh.
            Do they track EVERYTHING you do on the laptop? yes. Very obviously yes.

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              Hi there, I’m a tech enthusiast who has worked in the industry longer than you’ve been alive. I know how they work, but thanks for trying to teach me (honestly, good on you for the way you’ve gone about your post)

              Closing the screen hasn’t been a complete shutdown in at least a decade. It defaults to a low power state. On devices that are more “always on” like Win10onARM and Chromebook devices, they default to a low power state that still receive notifications etc. This can be changed, but likely not on a school owned and issued device.

              Yes, they obviously track everything you do on school issued devices. This should be clear to everyone. It would be spelled out in the terms and conditions of getting it in the first place. The case you’re talking about was almost 20 years ago iirc (2007 I believe), and the photos taken by the device were part of a “help us retrieve stolen devices” thing, that was “not adequately explained” to the parents/kids. It would regularly take photos so it could have evidence of who stole them and where they might be.

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          Which also meant that they had to seal them in…
          Which means that you couldn’t clean them out when they got dirty.
          Fun times.

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    Youthful rebellion transcends technology.

    Is there much difference between this and, say, using a pen to drill a hole in your desk?

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        I’m not so sure about cheaper. A quick google search shows the desks I used in school are priced around $400-$600 depending on type (different subjects had different desks), whereas the Chromebooks are around $250. I definitely agree with your second point, though.

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          Also, most school laptops are old. Someone did this at my school and got charged (iirc) $175 since it was the really old kind

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          i don’t know much about school desk but I can get a nice standing desk for $600. That is nuts.

          Also I wonder if they sell replacement parts.

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              And isn’t rendered unusable by a “hole drilled by a pen”. The person comparing a desk to a Chromebook is making a ridiculous comparison.

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            I’m sure the schools don’t pay that much for the desks (or the Chromebooks) since they buy in bulk – those are just the prices I could find for single units. I was more trying to show the difference in price, rather than exactly how much the schools spend.

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              Not even that, but they are simple and repairable. I remember we had these sleigh-style desks (same idea except the seat was one-piece molded plastic) that were a total of four parts (two rails, the seat and the desk top) aside from bolts/hardware, and they had a graveyard of parts to replace pieces as needed. And those desk were tough as all hell.

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                Sounds great, but… unfortunately, it seems impossible to tilt on the chair with those, which I see as an essential part of going to school.

                Also, the heights of the chair and table seem unadjustable, and it seems the pupil is seated too far away from the desktop to actually be comfortable.

                What a useless piece of piss. Yeah, at least it’s repairable, but is such a stupid piece of faulty furniture even worth repairing?

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                  Again, that was the style and not the exact ones we had, but yeah they were all fixed position, however ours weren’t too bad. I dunno, I don’t remember anyone complaining much, I was on the taller side of my peers and fit fine while I recall even the smaller kids were alright too. Id wager a big reason they were chosen was so kids couldn’t balance on the back legs, fall back and crack dome. They were great for cracking your back!

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            Chromebooks are designed to be cheap and disposable. I’ve seen some as low as ~$100. That doesn’t mean you can’t get some very expensive ones, but since they basically only allow you to use Google and a select few apps from the play store, I don’t know why the expensive ones exist.

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              I got an EOL Chromebook for $50, dropped Mint on it & use it to run a 3D printer instead of a raspberry pi.

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                laptops > raspberry pi imo. Having a screen is SO useful. I just got an old laptop to watch YouTube and mp4s on my TV without ads. Way better than the slow ad filled Roku OS

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              I used to have one as my primary work device for a few years. Honestly, it was surprisingly usable once you find online analogs for all typical things you do on a computer.

              The biggest issue is you’d be using a free online service for some application, and then they start charging per month or the company goes under and you lose your work, so you have to keep finding new services and exporting your work to a common format that won’t disappear to a central file system like Drive diligently.

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            They are very cheap. We had to buy them ourselves for our kids, which at least gave choices. We settled n $400 because for the cost of the cheapest piece of shit laptop, we could get a high end Chromebook that ran circles around it: faster, much more durable, much lighter, multiple times battery life

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          its cheap when you consider the desk could still be fully functional 100 years from now. good luck getting a chromebook to last even a quarter of that

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          What sort of hole were you drilling in a desk with a pen in order to completely render the desk unusable?

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      Thank you, it’s relieving to see that some people don’t fall for the “kids today” bullshit

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    Well, maybe a school-issued computer should be designed differently than a consumer device.

    Maybe such things should be considered beforehand.

    In industrial ergonomics you are supposed to, ideally, present a worker with a few buttons with abundantly clear results of pressing them and no forbidden combinations leading to unexpected\undefined\dangerous results.

    Kids sticking things into what’s given to them are not an unexpected event. I’d say kids doing that are better than kids not doing that. And if it’s expected, then this is almost entrapment.

    Oh, oh, OH, you can’t just put a consumer device with a web browser with Google and MS and Apple shit into schools then? No kickbacks from those companies? So fucking sad.

    Forcing a kid to wear around a centrally managed device with a microphone and a camera makes me want to vomit. That should be illegal as many other things. It’s a disgusting world.

    These should be military-level (by resilience to attempts to throw them out of the window, sink them in the water, overheat them and so on) devices with something like FreeDOS+OpenGEM. That’s by far enough to run school programs. If you think it’s not, then you are possessed by collective delusions, that’s a thing in crowd psychology, so drink a glass of water, listen to cars\birds, look at the sky and answer which fundamentally new tasks you need to solve as compared to having year 1999 Internet (as in open a static webpage, follow links, send forms), WordPerfect and Basic. Especially at school.

    We use axes, knives, hammers and screwdrivers and other stuff to do things, more or less as they existed 300 years ago, when we are not professionals, who of course use power tools.

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          A Chromebook for school kids costs around $200 when I was in school 5 years ago… A normal computer would cost closer to 500

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            Chromebooks are cheap compared to average laptop but still expensive compared to identical laptops with same components.

            So I should have said overcharged instead of expensive.

            2GB ram chromebooks you can find on ebay are an exception as they are not getting any more updates soon.

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        That can be as cheap as Chromebook. Expenses at reliability are partially redeemed by no need for such complexity and computing power.

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            Compared to a machine good enough to run TIE Fighter and not more - they do. Should remove that difference.

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      Arguably they already do take physical abuse into account, by focussing on cheap replacements

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      Unsure why this has downvotes and not more conversation, it’s not that hot of a take and downvotes don’t mean anything here.

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        It’s maybe not that hot a take to lifelong nerds who grew up with the Apple II and are disconnected from how kids use computers in schools in the 21st century.

        “School computers should be more durable and run Linux” isn’t that hot a take. FreeDOS??? WTF?

        Not to mention that he basically called everyone who disagrees with him stupid.

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      with something like FreeDOS+OpenGEM.

      Sigh. Watching windows users try to make sense of the computing world is always cringe.

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        I’m not a Windows user. Unix-likes are also too complex for most tasks.

        And your tone evokes suspicion that you’ve switched to Linux not so long ago and think that brings authority. Nah. It’s just an OS. Its users are as qualified as Windows users. When you’ll be able to explain to me how an IP packet passes through the networking stack, or something like that, then maybe. At least how virtual memory works, or swapping, or syscalls, or process scheduling.

        OK, admittedly I don’t remember shit of any of that.

        Just - wanting something more minimal doesn’t mean I’m ignorant of Unices.

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      explain to me why tiktok is promoting these videos and not censoring them?
      they censor cuss words on there, but not videos of encouraging kids to hurt themselves or others?
      but, there were always idiot fucking things up in school… well before the internet. tiktok is just channeling that.
      ….
      also, forcing kids to use chromebooks is child abuse… especially since schools spy on kids through them

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        I searched and the first time ever received a message about tiktok protection, etc. They are censoring apparently.

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    These kids know they’re gonna be replaced by tech and they’re fighting back

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      The ones that are dumb enough to do this won’t be getting jobs to be replaced anyway.

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      Yes they are. These 9th graders are feral though. That realization would require forethought.

      Some of these kids should have been sent out to cut trail for a year between HS and Middle School.

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        This is highly dependent on the state and even the areas within a state. Here in California for instance we have the Williams Act which lays out a ton of guidance. Some of which impact students paying for things at schools. Some districts in the state view Williams Act and 1:1 Chromebook deployments as being something that the student/parents aren’t responsible for paying for even when they purposefully damage it. This can change though from region to region in the state based on how a districts legal team and its board chooses to read the law since no one so far (at least as far as I was last aware and I work in edtech) has pushed to see where it stops or starts. I’ve worked for districts that were on separate ends of that spectrum and even in the district that made parents pay for damages we still would give them a replacement and not charge them since it was added to a “tab” and only if they wanted transcripts did they have to pay.

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          That’s fair. In my district your insurance is covered if you qualify for assistance, but intentional damage isn’t included in insurance.

          In my school we will still replace the Chromebook though (barring admin or district saying otherwise), and the financial impact will be fought by others at the district level. It’s above my pay grade.

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        What does “cut trail” mean in this context? Do you mean literally going to walking trails and maintaining them? Is there precident for that?

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            I was having a similar conversation with my teen - out hiking and wondering how the trails were built and maintained. We talked scouting service projects and all the way back to the WPA, but have no actual info. The park is a hill so there are several rough stone stairways up to the ridge trail. They probably last years but do need attention

            Occasionally you see online ideas about a year of service for every new adult and this would be a good option

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    So you mean there are laptop USB ports out there without current limiters?
    I would want to check my PC’s ports, but I am not filthy rich, so I’ll just assume stuff is not current limited.

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    the so-called Chromebook Challenge includes students sticking things into Chromebook ports to short-circuit the system.

    I am rather surprised that works. I thought any modern device would have overload protection in place. I think I even remember accidentally tripping it on some device, but it would just reset after reboot.
    I also tried to see the max output current of my previous phone this way. Load it up till the protection trips. Result: Stable up to 2.1A, tripped at 2.5A.

    Oh, yeah. A Xiaomi phone charger I have also shuts down if I either overload it or immediately load it near max rating rather than gradually increase the load.

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    I remain utterly convinced that Tiktok is nothing but a chinese psyop experiment to see how far they can manipulate people into actions that would otherwise be prevented by our brains screaming in self preservation.

    Has there ever been a “good” trend on tiktok? Every week its just another destructive thing that gullible idiots are being tricked into doing.

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      I agree. I was exposed to a lot of leftist content on tiktok and it’s made me want to protest. Good thing you explained that it’s stupid.

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        TBF TikTok wants the US Government to fail regardless of who is in office at the time.

        It’s like that meme from flippanarchy the other day.

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      People have just been doing dumb things for reputation since forever. We had the cinnamon challenge back in our day.

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        yeah, the cinnamon challenge was dumb… but it didnt involve mass destruction, psychotic behavor, or contaminating food\ in stores.

        So its hardly comparable.

        Also it wasnt Tiktok. Predates it, significantly.

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      Sees teenagers doing dumb shit, like they have since literally forever

      “Is this a plot by the despotic orientals?!”

      Fucking listen to yourself. I’m not on TikTok. I just don’t care for vertical short-form video as a concept. But even I can tell you that not every TikTok trend is teenagers being destructive idiots.

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      We skipped our 3310s down the road Infront of our school without tiktok brainrot. Kids today need chinese to tell them to be stupid. Back in our day, we were stupid on our own!

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        Yeah, this is yous lemmitors being conspiracy poisoned by the internet.

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        back in our day, our stupid wasnt malicious mass destruction or food tampering.

        It was actual stupid shit, like trying to jump over your friend as he raced towards you on his bike, or falling off a roof, Shit that only hurt yourself, if anyone. Wasnt breaking and entering and destroying shit so people in the next town over would think you were cool. We were stupid, but we werent that stupid.

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          Nah kids always do things that end up being malice since they don’t know it is maliceful. Kits are by definition retarded. Its expected of them to do dumb things.

          The fact you didn’t just means you were lucky.

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      Soon as Chump took office the moderation flipped. It was open and handled well. Now if you call a corrupt politician an asshole you get a violation.

      Talk about Palestine get a violation. Critical of the Chump regime get a violation.

      Chow somehow inserted himself fully up Chumps ass on like Jan 22. TT hasn’t been the same since.

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        TikTok always favored Trump because China always favored Trump and TikTok is operated by Chinese Military directly out of Chinese servers which also store location data, contacts, text message history, and photo library of every device which has ever installed TikTok.

        It’s a weapon to be used against the US now and since always.

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          […] TikTok is operated by Chinese Military directly out of Chinese servers which also store location data, contacts, text message history, and photo library of every device which has ever installed TikTok.

          It wouldn’t surprise me, but can you point me to a trustworthy source confirming that claim? Also, does the TikTok app refuse to work without those permissions granted (Location, Contacts, SMS, Photos and videos)?

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            But at the very least, why wouldn’t the Chinese government do what they think can get away with?

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            Years ago it was reported on by Internet 2.0 which was shared by news organizations such as Huffington Post. Additionally there was this guy on Reddit 5 years ago who decompiled the app and shared all the results on a subreddit made specifically for it LINK HERE and he claims that the app is literally more malware-like data collection than actual video playing app, like the amount of install data is mostly just the data collection tools.

            There were also House of Representatives intelligence briefings that went public but god those things are hard to sit through and read.

            If TikTok didn’t want these stories swept under the rug and if there wasn’t truth to these stories they could have sued these people for defamation. But they didn’t, implying they would have lost the case handily and looked bad for it.

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      It’s curated to cause problems, I wouldn’t believe anything otherwise. Douyin which is the Chinese version shows completely different content, including government narratives. Tiktok is straight brain rot, and I believe it’s curated to encourage poor behavior in users outside of China.

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      Obligatory “China hate” comment missing the forest for the trees.

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      Has there ever been a “good” trend on tiktok?

      The ice bucket challenge was making rounds again. But there’s basically infinite harmless trends that nobody thinks of. The 100 men versus 1 gorilla thing is a trend and unless somebody jumps in a gorilla pen for Harambe 2.0 it’s been harmless.

      Reminder that the ice bucket challenge is something that raises awareness and funds for ALS research.

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        My question was “was there ever a good trend from tiktok”

        Icebucket challenge was from before tiktok existed.

        So kinda proving my point.