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The Texas and Wisconsin girls loved to dance, sing and post videos to TikTok. Their parents say they died participating in a dangerous challenge.
The deaths of several online stars have shaken the TikTok community — and broken the hearts of fans — over the years. Taylor Rousseau Grigg died in October 2024 at the age of 25 after battling ...
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday wrestled with whether the video-based social media platform TikTok could be sued for causing a 10-year-old girl's death by promoting a deadly "blackout challenge ...
The blackout challenge is an internet challenge based around the choking game, which deprives the brain of oxygen. [1] It gained widespread attention on TikTok in 2021, primarily among children. [2] It has been compared to other online challenges and hoaxes that have exclusively targeted a young audience. [3]
Grover says these social media challenges are attractive because TikTok prioritizes content that gets those “likes.” What doesn’t get shown, she adds, are the people who get hurt.
Multiple lawsuits have been filed against TikTok, accusing the platform of hosting content that led to the death of at least seven children. [32] The lawsuits claim that children died after attempting the "Blackout challenge", a TikTok trend that involves strangling or asphyxiating someone or themselves until they black out (passing out ...
In November 2022, a Bloomberg Businessweek report linked the challenge to at least 15 deaths in children 12 and under in the previous 18 months, plus an additional five deaths in children aged 13 ...
Kyle Marisa Roth Courtesy of Kyle Marisa Roth/Instagram TikTok star Kyle Marisa Roth has died at the age of 36. “This is not a platform for personal life shares but so many of my connections on ...