TikTok skull-breaker challenge - sick or what???

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We have just received the following message from our school. We are not in the UK but this thing is spreading on TikTok so it is potentially everywhere. I am shaking like a leaf seeing this.

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It has been brought to our attention that there is a very dangerous and undesirable activity among young people around the world at the moment, called the ‘Skull Breaker Challenge.’

Essentially this involves three people, who begin to jump up and down and then two of them kick the legs away from the other causing her or him to fall onto either their back, neck or head. I am sure you can understand how extremely dangerous and reckless this is. To make matters worse, the children use their telephones to video this and then post it on social media.

I am imploring you to talk to your children about this and insist that they never carry out such an activity anywhere and we will be doing the same.
If any student(s) of our school are found to be doing this, there will be the most serious of consequences applied to their poor choice of conduct and behavior.

I have attached a link so that you may view for yourself. Warning – graphic content
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Bloody hell, that made me feel ill! What is wrong with people?sometimes I despair!

I do talk to my these kind of things and hope he has the sense not to get involved but you never know if he could be the victim of a prank. Just sickening imo.

@MintyMabel Shaking like a leaf? Really?

Actually, yes - and I would count myself as fairly anaesthetised to violence on-screen.

TBH I wasn't expecting to be flamed for propagating the bad behaviour.

To be honest if schools had to warn against every single stupid things that kids do they never do any educating

OP I think you’ve just really got your knickers in a twist

Youtube and TikTok algorithms and how things go viral on each platform are completely different

But the mechanism that brings people to view them are exactly the same. Over blown media hype. I guarantee when parents tell kids about things, especially if it is to warn them off, the first thing they do is seek it out. It has bugger all to do with algorithms.

MintyMabel Wrong again. If you want to find a specific video their search is actually pretty crap. The premise of TikTok is that in the main it shows you videos that IT decides to show you, not the other way around. How it decides which videos is based on a number of factors, but this is not the traditional 'media panic causes the hype that wasn't there in the first place' type scenario with this SM platform. This isn't YouTube where you decide what to watch. When you scroll the For You page you have no idea what you're going to see next.

And again, there's a huge difference between 'overblown media hype' and just being aware of a potential risk.

I recently completed my Safeguarding of Children level 2 training and the use of tik tok was brought up as being potentially harmful to children and one for parents to be aware of.

I am on Tiktok and I've only a few of these videos floating about. Its not a massive trend. They are pretty quick to remove videos if they violate terms or are dangerous.

So that's what it's called. My dd12 showed me a video of 2 girls in year 10 in her school doing this to a vulnerable year 7 lad and it looked absolutely awful.

I reported it and told the boys mum so hopefully it's been dealt with

Love the honesty 🤣I warned my son by explaining two people standing side by side next to him may ask him to jump but he shouldn’t and he asks “what if I jump in front”. My last response was very loud and clear “don’t jump”.

I am on Tiktok and I've only a few of these videos floating about. Its not a massive trend

It is though. When o go on TikTok I see videos of horses and cats because that's what I have watches a lot of. If kids are actively watching this 'trend' then more of the same will appear on their page.