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dude@lemmings.worldM to news@lemmings.worldEnglish · 24 days ago

Texas parents heartbroken after 9-year-old dies in social media ‘blackout’ challenge: ‘It was just the three of us’

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Texas parents heartbroken after 9-year-old dies in social media ‘blackout’ challenge: ‘It was just the three of us’

www.independent.co.uk

dude@lemmings.worldM to news@lemmings.worldEnglish · 24 days ago
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9-year-old girl dies in social media ‘blackout’ challenge
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The girl had just shown her grandmother a social media video of someone choking themselves before she wrapped a cord around her own neck
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    Why do half these ‘challenges’ seem like they were dreamed up by the types that live on 4chan?

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      Likely were.

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        You know there’s a video because she was doing it for tik tok, bet it ends up there mysteriously.

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      They weren’t. We did stupid shit like this when I was a kid, long before the internet was even a thing.

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        Yeah, had friends that did almost exactly this well before any of us had Internet.

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