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TikTok is Being Sued Over the 'Blackout Challenge'

#blackoutchallenge#carseat#tortilla#michaeljackson#breathe
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0:00 [Music] is anybody uh anybody one familiar with challenges that are going around on like tick tock and stuff like that no i've seen the break the school challenge you ever seen that one what where like kids will go into like their high school bathroom or some ████ and they'll just rip doors off or like like jump up and like pull lights down he's cracking up about this i watch it and i'm like this is terrible like our kids are ████ that's ████ up like a ████ zoo bro yeah it looks i'd be so pissed if i worked at the school yeah and then you watch that stuff even as a student you're like this is why we can't have nice things like this is why i can't show you i feel like that's why we didn't have doors that's why we didn't have doors in the ████ our bathroom we took a ████ without doors no for rest or even as a first grader you get paper towel right you're sucked with water yeah i did that oh

0:50 i forgot about that all recessed lawn you had all those paper towels stuck on the ████ mop wow that was science though in a way yeah yeah that's hella science well there's this challenge on tick tock going around right now called the blackout challenge does anybody hear this oh it's just like they hold their breath and ████ or they or they like choke you out and you like yeah exactly now i remember when i was a kid i remember doing semi-similar stuff like during like pe or during recess and stuff like that you would like go up to like a ████ wall and you're put your arms here and your homie would like push against your chest or something like that why are you trying to make your arms raise up yeah yeah stuff like that but then you would i remember kids would actually pass out i remember or like fall to the ground like hit their head oh my god you did yeah my friend was like we're like we're sleeping over and he's like oh you guys want to feel what it feels like to like pass out like yeah yeah i prevented late so much for like like 100 like count to 100

1:41 wherever and you stand up and they push you and then you're like oh ████ and then they're like waking you up like did you feel that you just ████ passed oh so cool i always pretended ironically that's exactly how it went down right i think that's exactly how it goes down i never passed out from it because i always had to fight fake it because i was like man it's not working well if you're waiting to be cool you're trying hard i was just like ████ my whole life i faked every single one of them i gamed the game did you want to get you in a rear naked and you didn't have i i never i never passed out from every anything like they could make that happen right now yep nick will teach you nickel teach you how to pass out dude yeah honestly i've been passed out a couple times i know how to do that ████ he's a pro at that and when you wake up like you feel like you have the best snap of your life really yeah you're just like i don't know about that man that's how i felt i've been oh i've been put out way more

2:32 than you dude are you sure yeah way because i suck really bad oh dude way more bad wow all right so tick tock right now is being sued after two young girls died while trying to recreate a viral trend called the blackout challenge how'd it die it got choked out that sounds like not even pretty bad two the lawsuits allege that lalani erica walton eight years old ariani jailene arroyo nine years old died after copying the trend in which participants tried to choke themselves into unconsciousness but how did this like what's the mechanics behind it today are they just doing this ████ yeah or did they hang themselves did they die together so a royal from milwaukee was found quote hanging from the family's dog's leash oh it's like basement that's not even the challenge yeah she was taken to

3:22 a hospital and put on a ventilator but had lost all brain function and was eventually taken off it's not even the challenge that's ████ death dude people said you did it wrong that's just the ████ hanging dude use that court similarly walton from texas was found quote hanging from her bed with a rope around also they didn't do this together it was separating my god man so bart is the ultimate asian dad dude yeah departs like you ████ up all that they just had better work ethic that's not the game but then so they they did it separately but they had the same idea of like yeah i think it just happened at the same time so two different lawsuits are going on wrongful death lawsuits were filed this past friday in la um and yeah so just two kids were just found hanging and police took walton's phone number uh phone and tablet and

4:13 later told her stepmother that she had been watching blackout challenge videos on repeat um royal was taken to the hospital but her brain cells were already messed up and they're not the first children to die while allegedly trying to participate in the challenge nyla anderson 10 years old similarly died while trying to copy the choking challenge leading to her mother filing a lawsuit against tick-tock and his parent company bite dance in may the challenge has been linked to at least four other deaths of children ranging from 10 to 14 in australia italy colorado and oklahoma um this is how i know i'm closer to being an old man than being a kid because my first thought is why can't they just do nice challenges whatever happened the good old good old cinnamon challenge let's feed the homeless

5:03 did someone die did somebody die for the cinnamon challenge more of a challenge actually why wouldn't that go viral huh make yourself pass out doesn't really uh seem like a challenge feeding the homeless chicken and stars i will say there is one challenge i will say there's one challenge going around right now it'd be really funny if we recreated it this is the blackout challenge no it's the tortilla challenge oh it's worse oh you put water in your mouth you play rock paper scissors and everybody holds a tortilla in their hand and if you lose rock paper scissors you get slapped in the face with the tortilla and obviously whoever busts up for spits of water out it's actually pretty ████ funny i can't breathe out of my nose so let's turn into the blackout challenge which is exactly why you're the number one candidate for that challenge should we do it he blacks out with the water spill in his mouth because i can't breathe on my nose dude hold on yeah don't do it right now do it right

5:53 now close your mouth breathe i can do out of one nostril that's what i'm saying one of them works yeah right now sometimes just hold water in your mouth right now put some water in your mouth right now for like the rest of the video how do you breathe at night oh yeah that dude put some water in your mouth put some water hold it yeah and then breathe through your nose full no that's that's not a slap that's a very nice love tap wait living oh ████ we're losing them nick wake up nick um fresh ones that are that are sitting out for a sec they get hard dude yeah yeah oh what if you toast them first corn versus flour this is why jk party always has to take it to the next level dude corn tortilla is crazy but it's just taking the whole

6:44 ████ tortilla like package that has 50 of them or you get the bottom of a sope man ████ you yeah challenge dude unless it's soggy then you then you're good bart just turns into a whole pizza challenge inside the box you're gonna do a bun me challenge or you just slap your face with a bomb specifically mr baguette where it's hella tough oh that would be tough do people forget that they did stupid ████ too as a kid everyone does because like that blackout challenge ████ existed since when we were kids too well yeah but we missed the window because i remember they were doing the ████ challenge i was like how did i miss this ████ window i never got a shot you're like i wanted to give so many ████ yeah i don't want to suck all those dicks wearing different colored lipsticks or how ████ up is this you think about how many people did things like the blackout challenge back in the day but it just wasn't recorded yeah so there's like still hell of death and they really died yeah it's just a living room

7:35 imagine all the other imagine all the sad kids that like killed themselves are like actually just part of the blackout challenge and we're just but we didn't record it so they're like oh no it was just so sad we just thought it was suicide yeah we didn't need blackout challenges we were doing ████ wrestlemania finishing moves [Laughter] but did you record it no we didn't have any cameras see that's why it's not as viral i like super kick my friend in the face like you know like sweet chin music i remember in the locker room i was in middle school my buddy was like do the rock bottom to me and i was like all right dude the rock bottom is like you grab somebody you pretty much slam them and he's like do it on the bench and he was like this small korean boy and he was like ████ i remember the story about this kid is that when he was in the seventh grade he had a ride in a car seat because he was so underweight oh like that's how small he was that's right yeah dude that's gotta be a ████ exaggeration that some of the

8:26 ████ bully-ass kids made up the car seat kid he's like that's my little brother he already went to school he gets dropped off first like you know you're in the car seat you're the car seat kid and i rock bottomed him on my ████ bench and you split him in two and he wanted destroyed it yeah did he sell it though yeah he was really hurt i was like oh no oh yeah he's like you gotta breathe and ████ dude dude he was terrible i know dude it was crazy my favorite ████ is somebody taking the stunner and they're just flopping around like a fish after they're every time the rock takes the stutter he's like ████ flying around 30 feet dude it's so good yo have you guys seen santana jackson he's a michael jackson wrestler yeah

9:17 that guy he he gets somebody into ddt and then does the moonwalk yeah the second drug yeah check this ████ out real quick so he's just doing michael jackson yeah his character is michael jackson he wrestles as a is that tommy dreamer bro dude he's like a ████ jacked michael jackson yo check this ████ out dude [Music] damn that looks just like mike oh straight to the dick oh he fights unfair that's how you know he's a ████ villain right there everyone hates this guy oh yeah come back bro this is sick i'm a fan oh [Applause] [Music]

10:16 the other guy was walking that's so sick [Music]

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