Makes me wonder how hard it’d be for the company that runs TikTok to identify and promote dangerous trends like this. Turn up the dial to cause a little chaos, interfere with schooling, do some economic damage and maybe even injure or kill some people if they’re lucky.
Kids are dumb^1^ enough on their own. While I’m not ruling out the idea that these things come about organically, there’s a lot of information we’re missing which could explain why their content moderation seems selectively ineffective in these areas.
1Not to say adults are automatically smart, we have plenty of examples to show where that assertion would fail. Teenagers are still mentally developing and (ideally) learning what it means to be responsible and have consequences for their actions.