Initially, this new very popular TikTok game is quite good-natured. participants must answer a very simple riddle: one of two participants Labello put it on her lips and has to guess, kissing another person, what kind of smell it is. All this is not very Covid friendly, but let’s face it. This at first rather innocent little game eventually took a turn as dramatic as it was unexpected. First of all, participants began to film themselves, damaging the lips. They then covered them with Labello for camouflage, but above all to aggravate the injury. Why ? The secret remains intact.
BUT challenge where teenagers kill themselves
While he thought he had reached the limit of (let’s say) stupidity, challenge survived the last completely insane hijacking since met life participants. Yes, you read it right. So the last challenge is to take pictures of yourself every day, applying labello on the lips. But the center piece gives a whole new dimension challenge : When the Labello ends, the contestant must commit suicide. And what had to happen happened. Several teenagers died trying to take part in this challenge completely crazy. Several studies have indeed shown a correlation between adolescents’ increasingly fragile mental health and the time they spend on social media. Therefore, a fragile profile can easily do the irreparable.
What is TikTok doing?
We assume that the viral nature of such challenges doing business on TikTok. However, these high-risk situations require network intervention. social. While many others challenges inserted danger some users (on consider artificial lip pouting), TikTok has promised it will work to limit maximum such content on the platform. Obviously, there is still a lot of work to be done. Recently, another 12-year-old boy was found dead after participating in the “Blackout Challenge”, another game in which children immerse themselves in danger of death.
