TikTok users are again endangering their lives following the latest dodgy challenge ‘Choking Challenge’. If you are a TikTok user who is coming across a lot of Choking Challenge videos, we request you to report them all, as they may endanger the lives of several people. Below we have provided all the details about what is the Choking Challenge on TikTok all about and why are users getting onto this dangerous challenge.
This is not the first time TikTok users are getting behind a dangerous trend. Nowadays, it has become common for people to endanger their lives for the sake of popularity and to earn a few more followers, views, and likes on their videos. However, they don’t understand how they are endangering the lives of several other users by posting such dangerous content.
Some of the dangerous challenges that we have come across in the past on TikTok include the following:
- Milk Crate Challenge
- Blackout Challenge
- Skull Breaker Challenge
- Plug Challenge
- Blue Whale Challenge
- Big Straw Challenge
- Magnet Challenge
And the list goes on.
Several people mostly young children have died after attempting these dangerous trends. To add to the list another challenge that users on TikTok call the Choking challenge has started spreading across the foryou page of TikTok.
Below we have provided all the dangerous consequences of the Choking Challenge. Keep reading to make sure the safety of your young kids.
What Is The Choking Challenge On TikTok?
As the name suggests, Choking Challenge involves choking. It is pretty similar to the blackout challenge that went viral on TikTok earlier. After the blackout challenge is being reported and removed from the platform, the negative people of the platform have now come up with the choking challenge.
Quite similar to the blackout challenge, choking challenge too requires the users to hold their breath until they lose their consciousness.
Several users have already ended up in hospitals following this scary trend. As reported by NBC 12, a 12-year-old boy from Colorado ended up in the hospital after trying this dangerous TikTok challenge.
As per the news reports, this young kid was found unconscious in his room by his twin brother. Upon investigating, the family came to know that the young kid has fallen victim to the dangerous choking challenge on TikTok. This same trend has also killed a young 10-year-old girl in Italy.
Is The TikTok Choking Challenge Dangerous?
After the trend started creating deep roots on the video-sharing platform, users have come forward to remove the trend from the platform. As the TikTok guidelines are pretty clear about self-harm and suicide, the platform also is taking all the measures to bring down this dangerous trend.
The TikTok guidelines for self-harm and suicides are as below:
The guidelines read:
“We do not allow content depicting, promoting, normalizing, or glorifying activities that could lead to suicide, self-harm, or eating disorders.”
The platform has already explained that they don’t support creators who invite their fellow users to take part in dangerous challenges. The quote from the platform reads, “We also do not permit users to share content depicting them partaking in, or encouraging others to partake in, dangerous activities that may lead to serious injury or death.”
Despite the strict guidelines of TikTok, if you still find any video related to the Choking trend, we would suggest you report it following the below steps:
- Open your TikTok handle and search for the ‘Choking challenge’ or the ‘Blackout challenge’ in the search bar.
- If you have found any video that features this challenge, hit the white arrow to the right of the video.
- Here, you will find an icon that says ‘report’. Tap on this flag icon.
- In this reason, provide this ‘suicide, self-harm and dangerous acts’ statement and hit the enter button.
- You have successfully reported the harmful trend.
- If you find any other similar video content, report it and be a responsible internet user.
You may also want to read about Blue Whale Challenge TikTok
The Bottom Line
This was all about what the Choking challenge on TikTok is, and how to report it on the video-sharing app. Hopefully, you have found all the details you were looking for.