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Texas parents heartbroken after 9-year-old dies in social media ‘blackout’ challenge: ‘It was just the three of us’ (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why do half these 'challenges' seem like they were dreamed up by the types that live on 4chan?

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Likely were.

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You know there’s a video because she was doing it for tik tok, bet it ends up there mysteriously.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They weren't. We did stupid shit like this when I was a kid, long before the internet was even a thing.

[–] sness@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, had friends that did almost exactly this well before any of us had Internet.