Actually, the representation of dangerous actions on Tiktok is forbidden. But daring competitions are started on the platform again and again.
First the tower made of milk crates sways, then it collapses: In the social network Tiktok, numerous users are currently posting videos in which they are balancing on a pyramid made of plastic milk crates.
“MilkCrateChallenge” is the English name of the test of courage that, according to the Washington Post, has been spreading mainly in the USA since the beginning of August. Doctors are now warning against imitating the short videos.
The aim of the challenge is to climb up and down a pyramid made of stacked milk crates. But most of the videos show how participants lose their balance and then land rudely on the floor or on the boxes. The result: Dislocated shoulder joints, cruciate ligament and meniscus tears, broken wrists and even spinal cord injuries, as the doctor Shawn Anthony from New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital reported to the Washington Post. Against the background of the increasing number of new corona infections in the USA, he therefore warned against putting additional strain on hospitals.
According to its community guidelines, content that depicts dangerous actions is prohibited on the Chinese platform. This includes “dangerous games, tests of courage or stunts that could lead to injuries”. Nevertheless, videos of the new challenge there and on other social networks were clicked millions of times, reported the Washington Post.
It is not the first time that Tiktok users have put their health at risk for dangerous tests of courage: In the “Tide Pod Challenge”, the participants had to bite on detergent capsules. According to media reports, the “Choking Challenge”, in which participants deliberately fainted, even claimed fatalities.
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