Current Events > 12-year-old boy on life support after doing blackout challenge he saw on TikTok

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Authorities are warning people to steer clear of the Blackout Challenge, which, like the Pass Out Challenge of 2020, can lead to asphyxiation.
Heres what you need to know about the dangerous trend.
The game requires the participant to choke themselves until they pass out and wake up moments later. Its easy to see why this is a bad idea.
The trend can cause fainting, brain damage and seizures even when it isnt deadly, according to experts.
What is actually going on in the brain is a lack of oxygen similar to when someone is drowning, choking or having a cardiac arrest, Dr Nick Flynn told the Irish Examiner about challenges like this. If you have low oxygen to the brain for over three minutes you can get brain damage and if you have low oxygen to the brain for over five minutes it can result in death.
On March 22, 12-year-old Joshua Haileyesus was found breathless on the bathroom floor by his twin brother after participating in the Blackout Challenge, which he discovered on TikTok. According to a GoFundMe set up by his family, the young boy is on life support in the Childrens Hospital ICU in Denver, Colo., and doctors say his odds of surviving are extremely unlikely.
He is very, very much a fighter, Joshuas father, Haileyesus Zeryihun, told Denver7. I want others to see what Im going through, learn for their children.
Our family is devastated beyond belief by Joshuas circumstance, the family wrote on their GoFundMe page. We are saddened that someone who has a future as promising as Joshua is in such a critical and life-threatening situation at the moment. We are also concerned for other families who like ourselves, may not be aware of the existence of the Blackout Challenge and others like it. We are desperate not only to bring Joshua home, but to ensure that nothing like this happens to anyone else. We urge the community to spend awareness about Joshua and the real risks involved in not having knowledge of what kinds of activities children are involved in.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/tiktok-blackout-challenge-turn-fatal-130000454.html

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TikTok should be banned

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Oh kids and their dang trends

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Gosh. Ppl are so stupid. Hope he recovers.

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NeonOctopus posted...

TikTok should be banned

Unfortunately, dumbshit kids don't need TikTok or even social media to do stupid shit like knocking themselves out. I remember hearing about kids doing this dumb pass out shit when I was in high school, slightly before it became cool to put footage of yourself doing absolutely stupid things online.

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They're still doing this shit? Kids were asphyxiating themselves back when I was a kid.

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I remember a girl in middle school kept choking herself. I kept telling her to stop because it was fucking weird and I was afraid she was gonna die. Then people kept making fun of me by saying "ooh why do you care so much, do you have a crush on her" and I stopped. She's alive when we graduated

Why does shit like this keep happening on tiktok? Are there no rules about self harm or encouraging violence?

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part of me just wants to say let kids drink a damn beer or something.

so they dont do stupid shit like choke themselves to death or inhale paint fumes or some shit just to feel some sort of high

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Alucard188 posted...

They're still doing this shit? Kids were asphyxiating themselves back when I was a kid.

Me and my friends passed each other out as kids >_>. Just for a couple days. But it was rapid fire back to back. It's when I lost my first few senses.

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Gobstoppers12 posted...

Why does shit like this keep happening on tiktok? Are there no rules about self harm or encouraging violence?

There was a trend where you stuck a dime in an outlet.

So it doesn't seem like it.

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I remember this back in like 2002 when I was in 8th grade...

I was in the bathroom and was watching some kids do it and I was like nope I am getting the fuck outta here.


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I mean it's sad but unless he was mentally disabled, someone who is 12 should know not to choke themselves.

Daniel_Berkhart posted...

I mean it's sad but unless he was mentally disabled, someone who is 12 should know not to choke themselves.

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The Darwin Award challenge.

Trump was onto something when he wanted to ban TikTok.

4D chess?