[unixgoddess]

Few months ago there was some sort of challenge on tiktok, most kids at my local middle school arrived to school with self-inflicted bruises on the face.

With this shit, if you don't do it too you are out of the group and goodbye social life.

Social media are preying on the group-belonging instincts of kids with tremendous damage not only on the kids themselves, but on society as a whole.

However, it's up to parents to deal with it. It's unacceptable that I have to produce my ID on the internet to remedy the damage of other people poor parenting.

[robertfw]

I did a stint working on trust & safety tools for a social media startup. What I learned from working with content moderators is that overall, the industry gets by doing the barest of bare minimums, and TikTok is one of the worst offenders

"But the cost!", well, if the business model can't be viable when done safely, then the business model is not viable - we just don't have the externalized costs of harm done visible to help make that call

[boxed]

Be glad no one died, like with the blackout challenge or the cinnamon challenge.

[unixgoddess]

even back in the day there were raw egg or hot chili challenges... being idiots for acceptance is truly embedded in the human mind. But social media and general societal collapse bring it out several orders of magnitude worse.

[watwut]

You would not believe stupid crap and self harm my peers engaged in 25 years ago, before any of us had phones. Self-inflicted bruise or bruises to impress other boys were a thing among some kids.