There is potential young people saw it yes but it wasn’t quite as simple as people make out.
it did last 30 odd mins, but when the self harm began Tik tok took it down within mins, he was clearly very manic to start with and not in a rational state, saying he didn’t want to live , everyone wanted him dead etc, and then his distress escalated, and it began and he couldn’t feel it and didn’t understand why it wasn’t working, why he wasn’t dead. When it escalated people started reporting it.
tik tok are under fire as it should have been stopped when his distress started escalating, not because the self harm was shown as such. More it should never have got to that stage, although I don’t think anyone could have predicted whay was about to happen,
even some of the people on line with him clearly can’t understand what’s happening and are asking what are you doing, are you ok , Perez stop, it’s like their brains couldn’t compute what they were seeing as it must have been incredibly shocking for them. I mean I knew what I was about to witness roughly and even I was shocked for a moment like my brain froze.
then people started to report, as they realised what was happening and gather their wits, and call the Emergancy services. It is not 30modd mins of self harm.