Is this actually...a thing? Just got this "warning" about a TikTok challenge from my oldest kid's school where students are apparently jamming things into their Chromebooks to "create sparks." I'm skeptical lol
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There was a Tiktok challenge ("devious licks") a few years ago where, at least in the school I worked at, kids were taking the soap bags out of the soap dispensers and messing around in the bathrooms with them.
Caused a strict "1 person in at a time" rule for quite a while. Very annoying.
My son sent me a video of someone using graphite from a mech pencil. I explained to him that not only was this dumb, but also dangerous because you can end up sending voltage down the data lines and doing damage to the laptop. Luckily he asked me what was going on before trying to do it himself.
It was a package on the radio this morning while I was driving, too. I am also skeptical that it is A Thing of any note. (Although I fully believe, having once been a teenager, that some students somewhere have done so and filmed themselves lol)
once as a kid i used the car's cigarette lighter to burn a hole in my mom's dashboard just to see what would happen even though i knew what would happen (i would burn a hole in the dashboard, the literal thing I was doing), so i gotta say i believe kids would do this
We once used some sort of flammable liquid to create a cool line of flames like in a film inside a garage. We lit it, and then realised afterwards, there was nowhere for the chemical smoke to go. Thankfully, we opened up the garage and nothing happened, but kids definitely love a bit of destruction.
lmao me and some friends were seconds from spraying wd-40 into a fire we lit *in a garage* because we heard it would make a big fireball, and like thank god his dad came busting in to stop us
In highschool we were provided laptops. We used to take foil gum wrappers and fold them up, stick them in the USB ports of our friends laptops which caused them to shut down unexpectedly. Our version was much better.
Work in IT at a high school. I haven’t seen it yet, but now I’ll keep an eye out. Also, the chances of sparks or smoke is so incredibly low, seems like a near nothing burger.
Teacher in the Chicago area (near you I would imagine). We sent out the same email to all parents in our district yesterday as well. It’s definitely a thing, unfortunately.
oh yea man this is all over tiktok (real). they're shoving mechanical pencil lead into USB ports, or charging ports, and shorting them out. to what end, idk.
Yes, I work in K12 IT and this has started happening the last week or so after a tiktok trend. It can cause enough smoke to set off fire alarms. We're basically threatening ISS and making them cover the full cost of a device if caught doing it.
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Caused a strict "1 person in at a time" rule for quite a while. Very annoying.
but yeah, kids can, in fact, be wildly stupid, so it's not impossible to me
https://www.distractify.com/p/tiktok-chromebook-trend
Put simply, there have always been certain kids who enjoy setting things on fire