Tag: social media fails
Teen slaps mom’s breasts for clicks in bizarre TikTok stunt
Finally, a viral challenge so vile, even the most rabid TikTok watchers are talking smack about it.
Thought the “taste test-icle” challenge was weird? TikTokker Aiden Ridings, 17, devised an even more disturbing way to “rack” up social media views — by smacking his mom’s breasts to the beat of “Undercover Martyn” by Two Door Cinema Club.
The eight-second clip — posted Feb. 18 to Ridings’ now-deleted TikTok account — shows the teen trying to stifle a smirk before swiftly mauling his mom’s mammaries.
The video-sharing platform is infamous for its self-indulgent (and often dangerous) stunts — but this bizarre attention grab went too far for many fans.
Ridings’ clip sparked so many outraged comments that he yanked it, but not before it was pirated and uploaded to Twitter, where it has garnered nearly 4.5 million viral views and more than 160,000 highly suspect “likes.”
The Western Australia teen’s stoic matriarch barely flinches during her son’s bosom-beating, and even appears to share a laugh with him by the video’s end.
“My mother was open to doing it,” the teen, a diesel mechanic apprentice, tells Jam Press. “I thought it was really funny and I needed to do the video for laughs on my TikTok page.”
However, many Twitter critics don’t share his sophomoric sense of humor.
“White people let their kids get away with anything bruh,” tweeted one over Aiden’s mother being such a good sport.
“If my kids even asked me anything like that let alone did it — they would be slapped to the ground!!!” posted another.
“Alabama TikTok is wild,” quipped another, seemingly unaware the incident occurred in Australia.
Still, Ridings says he doesn’t “mind the criticism because that’s social media.”
“I thought it was funny and I posted it so others can think it’s funny too,” Ridings says. “And people say some stuff but I just choose to ignore it.”
Thumping chests for TikTok clicks isn’t a new phenomenon. The video-sharing app and YouTube are both inundated with clips of knuckleheads slapping their usually male friends’ nipples to the tune of “Undercover Martyn.”
This appears to be the first instance of a son engaging in a maternal mammary smackdown in order to boost his social media “clout.”
Still, in the realm of harebrained TikTok stunts, the aforementioned prank is arguably less dangerous than the “Cha-Cha Slide” challenge, which involves crazily swerving your car in time with music. Plus, the viral “penny challenge” has been slammed by firefighters as a fire hazard, while the “skull-breaker” challenge has been deemed deadly by doctors.
via: https://nypost.com/2020/02/25/teen-slaps-moms-breasts-for-clicks-in-bizarre-tiktok-stunt/
Photo Credit: Jam Press
Police warn parents of ’48-Hour Challenge’, which encourages kids to go missing
(KMOV.com) – A warning is being issued to parents about a new challenge for teens that is circulating Facebook, the 48-hour challenge.
It encourages teens to go missing for up to two days at a time and awards points for every social media mention while they’re missing.
Police say it is not only dangerous but could also tie them up while there are real emergencies.
Child psychiatrists say it’s never a good idea to assume your child knows better than to involve themselves in such an internet challenge.
Police say anyone caught participating in the 48-hour challenge could face charges.
School superintendent on Texans star: ‘You can’t count on a black QB’
A school superintendent in Texas said he thought he was sending a private message when he wrote a public Facebook post blasting Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson, stating, “you can’t count on a black quarterback.”
Lynn Redden, superintendent of the Onalaska Independent School District, made the comment in reference to the final play of the Texans’ 20-17 loss on Sunday to the Tennessee Titans during which Watson held onto the ball before completing a pass to receiver DeAndre Hopkins as time expired, leaving no time to try a last-second, game-tying field goal.
“That may have been the most inept quarterback decision I’ve seen in the NFL,” Redden wrote on a Facebook post promoting a Houston Chronicle story about the game. “When you need precision decision making you can’t count on a black quarterback.”
But Redden didn’t realize that the post was public. He later deleted his comment and told the Chronicle he wishes he never shared that sentiment.
“I totally regret it,” Redden told the newspaper.
Redden, who oversees 1,130 students and 175 staffers as the district’s superintendent, did not immediately return a message seeking comment from The Post early Tuesday. He had not faced any discipline in connection with the remark as of Monday afternoon but told the Chronicle he understands how people may consider it to be racist.
Redden said he was referring to the statistical success of black quarterbacks in the NFL.
“Over the history of the NFL, they have had limited success,” he told the newspaper.
Doug Williams in 1988 became the league’s first black quarterback to lead his team to a championship, taking the Washington Redskins over the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXII. Williams, who started the season as a backup, was named the game’s MVP after completing 18-of-29 passes for 340 yards and four touchdowns.
More recently, in 2014, Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson became the second black quarterback to win it all, beating the Denver Broncos 43-8 in his second season as a pro.
The eagle-eyed reader who caught Redden’s comment, meanwhile, said he hopes there are repercussions to follow.
“It’s important to make sure horrible words are met with consequences, especially for those in powerful positions with influence,” reader Matt Erickson told the newspaper.
Watson, for his part, said the Titans simply countered with “good coverage” during the game’s waning seconds, according to ESPN.
Asked if he should’ve thrown the ball away earlier, he said: “Of course.
“But while you’re playing … you can sit back and sit in your seats and say that I needed to throw the ball away,” Watson said. “But we tried to take a shot and we didn’t have any timeouts and they guarded the sideline very well. So my instincts took over and tried to get the ball and time ran out.”
Coach Bill O’Brien instead took most of the blame.
“We’re just trying to get it into field goal range and just trying to — we’ve got to do a better job of coaching that play up,” O’Brien told reporters.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/09/18/school-superintendent-on-texans-star-you-cant-count-on-a-black-qb/