“Fairy flying” The resurfaced TikTok trend #fairyflying encourages millions of users to create disturbing videos that resemble fake suicide-by-hanging footage. To help readers know what to avoid, we’ve compiled a list of challenges so ludicrous we might want to reconsider a TikTok ban. Unfortunately, the app’s eyeball-seeking algorithm makes it extremely difficult for these oft-harmful trends to be nipped in the bud before they metastasize across the internet. In the most notorious stunt in recent months, TikTok has become obsessed with NyQuil Chicken, which is far more deadly than when a female TikTokker wound up in the hospital after trying to style her hair with gorilla glue.
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