Silhouette Challenge on TikTok

Dangerous Social Media Challenges

The Silhouette Challenge is a trend on TikTok that puts a red filter on a video that darkens the user’s body while they dance or move to look like a silhouette. Some users are recording the videos partially clothed or nude because they think their body is completely darkened with the red filter. Users are being cautioned to avoid participating in the challenge or to wear clothing they would normally be comfortable being seen wearing in a public setting.

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Silhouette Challenge on TikTok

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Bathroom Vandalism Challenge

Dangerous Social Media Challenges

The “Bathroom Vandalism Challenge” on TikTok encourages students to cause destruction in their school’s restroom. Schools across the country are reacting and asking for help from parents and guardians to help stop this trend.

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Benadryl Challenge

Dangerous Social Media Challenges

The Benadryl Challenge encourages users to take excessive amounts of allergy medication with the hopes of hallucinating. If you find anyone who has overdosed on medication, seek medical assistance immediately. Learn how parents and educators can talk with students about this, and other, dangerous social media challenges.

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Blackout Challenge

Dangerous Social Media Challenges

The TikTok Blackout Challenge involves teens choking themselves or holding their breath until they pass out and sharing videos of themselves doing this. Learn how to talk to students about this and other dangerous challenges.

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Blue Whale Challenge

Dangerous Social Media Challenges

The Blue Whale Challenge is a game teens play to perform harmful tasks over 50 days, with the last task urging the victim to die by suicide. The challenge as a whole is meant to harm students and slowly get them to trust the game. Each challenge in the game shames the student to take another action (or they will share their secrets with the public). If your child has engaged with anything like the Blue Whale Challenge, other students might be engaging with it too.

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Chroming Challenge

Dangerous Social Media Challenges

The Chroming Challenge on TikTok is a dangerous social media trend. This challenge is a variation of the long-standing practice of inhaling toxic chemical fumes to obtain an immediate short-term high. This challenge can have a lasting impact on one’s health including a decrease in brain activity and even death.

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Condom Snorting Challenge

Dangerous Social Media Challenges

The condom snorting challenge is a viral trend where teens post a video of themselves snorting a condom through their nose and pulling it out of their mouth. While this may sound like a joke, teens have been doing this challenge since 2007. This challenge can be very dangerous and can cause choking, infection, or allergic reaction. Viral challenges like this encourage teens to do dangerous things just for likes, views, attention, and subscribers.

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Deodorant Challenge

Dangerous Social Media Challenges

The deodorant challenge is a viral teen trend where students spray their bare skin (or someone else’s) with aerosol deodorant for as long as they can stand it. The challenge is painful, can have a lasting impact, causes scarring, and is causing some teens to be hospitalized. Knowing about social media challenges and trends before your teen does can help you keep them safe before an incident occurs.

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Door Kick/Heart Beat Challenge

Dangerous Social Media Challenges

The Door Kick or Heart Beat Challenge encourages participants to kick unsuspecting people’s doors on college campuses and in neighborhoods. Learn more about why a simple prank with popular song lyrics is causing concern across the country.

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Fire Challenge

Dangerous Social Media Challenges

Some students across the country are lighting themselves on fire-- or letting their friends ignite them while recording it for social media. It’s called the “Fire Challenge.” The life-threatening internet stunt has been around for a while, but unfortunately, some are still attempting it and some of them are getting badly burned in the process. We highly recommend parents discuss the dangers of the Fire Challenge with their students before they find out about it from their friends.

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Kia Boys TikTok Challenge

Dangerous Social Media Challenges

The Kia Boys TikTok challenge involves stealing cars, reckless driving, and major consequences. Learn more about this challenge, the potential dangers, and tips to talk to your students about why it’s important to avoid this particular social media trend.

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Milk Crate Challenge

Dangerous Social Media Challenge

Dangerous Social Media Challenges

The “Milk Crate Challenge” is a viral social media challenge that medical practitioners and law enforcement officers have strong warnings against.

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Momo Challenge

(A hoax, but important to know about)

Dangerous Social Media Challenges

The Momo Challenge encourages students to contact an unknown person called “Momo” via WhatsApp. Throughout the challenge, students are sent violent and graphic images and texts. If students want to stop the challenge “Momo” threatens to leak their personal information. Students who partake in the Momo Challenge are actively communicating with strangers who intend to encourage self-harm.

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No Budge Challenge

Dangerous Social Media Challenges

The No Budge Walk Challenge encourages social media users to record themselves walking through a busy area (like a school hallway) going in the opposite direction from others with the intention of bumping into other walkers.

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Nyquil Chicken Challenge

Dangerous Social Media Challenges

The Nyquil Chicken Challenge requires participants to cook chicken in cold medicine and post a video on social media. The challenge could cause breathing problems, hallucinations, and seizures. The challenge is also known as the #sleepychickenchallenge.

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One Chip Challenge

Dangerous Social Media Challenges

The One Chip Challenge is a viral social media challenge in which participants must eat a chip made from the spiciest peppers in the world.

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Orbeez Gel Gun Challenge

Dangerous Social Media Challenges

Participants of the Orbeez challenge load airsoft or gel blaster toy guns with soft gel beads known as Orbeez. They then record themselves shooting people or objects with the gel beads and share the videos on social media. Police are prosecuting participants for personal harm and property damage.

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Shell On Challenge

Dangerous Social Media Challenges

The Shell on Challenge is a social media trend that is gaining popularity among students. Teens are challenging each other to eat food items still in their packaging. To partake in the challenge, teens will shoot a video of themselves eating something with the ‘shell on’ and then post that video on social media. It should be a red flag for parents if their child is doing this challenge to gain attention on social media.

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Skullbreaker Challenge

Dangerous Social Media Challenges

In the Skullbreaker Challenge, three people stand side-by-side. The two people on either end will trick the middle person into dancing or jumping with them to make a video. Then, they kick the unsuspecting person’s feet out from under him/her forcing the victim to fall on the ground. The prank is then posted to social media. There are reports of kids getting concussions or being hospitalized with other injuries after attempting this. Some students have also faced legal consequences for participating in the Skullbreaker Challenge.

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Slender Man

Dangerous Social Media Challenges

Slender Man is a fictional character who originated from a viral internet meme. The character is portrayed as a tall, thin, and faceless man in a black suit who goes around traumatizing people. Although he is fictitious, the Slender Man is causing teens to act dangerously. In 2014, two tween girls stabbed a classmate and claimed it was in an attempt to act on behalf of the Slender Man after reading about him online.

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Swatting

Dangerous Social Media Challenges

Swatting is when someone makes a prank call to emergency services in an attempt to dispatch a large number of law enforcement officers (often a swat team) to a school or an unsuspecting victim at home. Learn how to talk to students about preventing this trend.

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Tide Pod Challenge

Dangerous Social Media Challenges

The Tide Pod Challenge encouraged students to consume a plastic laundry detergent pod and post a video of it to social media. At first, the challenge started as a joke but now poison control centers are warning parents about this dangerous activity. Even if a student doesn’t eat the entire laundry detergent pod, just ingesting a tiny bit can lead to serious health repercussions.

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