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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]
The “blackout challenge,” or “choking challenge,” is an online challenge proliferated through social media apps such as TikTok that encourages viewers to asphyxiate themselves until they ...
It was the TikTok-infamous “Blackout Challenge” that killed 10-year-old Nylah Anderson, according to her mom. In December 2021, Philadelphia-area resident Tawainna Anderson discovered her ...
By Nate Raymond. (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court has revived a lawsuit against TikTok by the mother of a 10-year-old girl who died after taking part in a viral "blackout challenge" in which users ...
Choking game. The choking game, or fainting game[1][2] is the act of intentionally cutting off oxygen to the brain with the goal of inducing temporary loss of consciousness and euphoria. A related internet challenge, the blackout challenge, encourages the use of the choking game online.
Blackout Challenge/Choking Game - A challenge involving deliberately tying belts, cords, and other ligatures around ones neck, for the purpose of experiencing a "high". While the blackout challenge did not originate on the Internet, it had resurfaced in popularity on TikTok during the COVID-19 pandemic. [53]
The "blackout challenge" has been around since at least 2008, according to People, but it started making the rounds on TikTok again back in 2021. Experts have warned young users not to try the ...
On 7 April 2022, a 12-year-old boy, Archie Battersbee, [1] from Southend, Essex, England, was found unconscious by his mother, Hollie Dance, with a dressing gown cord around his neck. Dance performed CPR, and called for an ambulance. [2] The paramedics who attended found that Archie Battersbee had suffered a cardiac arrest and his Glasgow Coma ...