Ohio 10-year-old warns about new social media challenge, tripping jump challenge
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Multiple people have been seriously hurt, and apparently one girl in Brazil died from it. Hopefully the very nature of these things becoming 'viral' will mean more people will be aware of it and refuse to participate.
It's called the "Tripping Jump Challenge." Parents probably have no clue what it's about, but their children probably do.
Three people stand side-by-side. The person in the middle doesn't know what's about to happen. Thinking they're taking a slo-mo video of jumping, the person in the middle jumps high only to have the person on the left and the right sweep their legs out from under them.
This sounds like yet another moral panic over nothing - like the Tide pod nonsense, or the old gang-members-killing-someone-who-flashes-their-headlights canard, or the supposedly-poisoned Halloween candy (yes, folks, we had this sort of the-sky-is-falling! hysteria even before there was social media!) - designed just for the hand-wringers to wring their hands over.
This sounds like yet another moral panic over nothing - like the Tide pod nonsense, or the old gang-members-killing-someone-who-flashes-their-headlights canard, or the supposedly-poisoned Halloween candy (yes, folks, we had this sort of the-sky-is-falling! hysteria even before there was social media!) - designed just for the hand-wringers to wring their hands over.
All those things you mentioned were true and affected people. Just because it didn't affect you doesn't mean it should be ignored.
This doesn't sound like jumping challenge when someone potentially hurts you.
All those things you mentioned were true and affected people. Just because it didn't affect you doesn't mean it should be ignored.
They might have happened to someone, but none of those things are a national trend "sweeping the nation" like the media stories would have you believe.
Have some kids tripped someone as a prank? Sure. Is this something popular among most teens? Highly unlikely.
Pretty sure I'm not the only one who witnessed classmates' chairs being pulled out from under them..? The only difference here is that we didn't have social media to record and make a big fuss over it.
Pretty sure I'm not the only one who witnessed classmates' chairs being pulled out from under them..? The only difference here is that we didn't have social media to record and make a big fuss over it.
The worst was when the kid on the other end of the see-saw suddenly jumped off at the bottom!
The worst was when the kid on the other end of the see-saw suddenly jumped off at the bottom!
I just laughed out loud at my desk reading this... And recalled several instances of severe pain in my butt bones. Followed by some wrestling with my friend(s) in the school yard.
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