Her suit claimed that TikTok “sent what was essentially a how-to asphyxiate yourself video, disguised as a challenge, to a 10-year-old. The suit cited five other cases of children dying after participating in the blackout challenge between January and December of 2021, including a 10-year-old girl in Italy (whom Arroyo told her parents about), two 12-year-old boys in Colorado and Oklahoma, a 14-year-old boy in Australia, and another 10-year-old girl in Pennsylvania named Nylah Anderson.Īccording to The Washington Post, Taiwanna Anderson filed a lawsuit against TikTok in May 2021. The parents of both girls allege that TikTok had “specifically curated and determined that these blackout challenge videos… are appropriate and fitting for small children.” The lawsuit in question was filed on June 30, 2022, by the parents of eight-year-old Lalani Walton of Temple, Texas, and nine-year-old Arriani Arroyo of Milwaukee - both of whom died last year while attempting to do the blackout challenge. Parents are suing TikTok and its parent company ByteDance to hold the platform accountable for their children’s deaths as a result of the blackout challenge going viral on the app.
They don’t always rely on their friends to act as safeguards, making things especially dangerous if they become unconscious. They have their phone in hand, TikTok video playing on the screen, and the camera rolling. What makes the blackout challenge especially dangerous - and fatal - is that kids often play it by themselves in the privacy of their own bedroom. Today, it goes by the blackout challenge. The game has gone by different names since the 1930s, such as the “pass out challenge,” “space monkey,” and “flatliner.” No matter what name the game bears, it still challenges kids to choke themselves without cutting too much of the flow of oxygen to the brain in order to achieve momentary euphoria. between 19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (via TIME). The blackout challenge is reminiscent of the choking game, which killed 82 children between the ages of 6 and 19 in the U.S. TikTok is launching a dedicated gaming channel The ’77 blackout presented a rare opportunity for the powerless minority to suddenly seize power, TIME concluded, quoting the head of the National Urban League as saying, “ in a crisis feels no compulsion to abide by the rules of the game because they find that the normal rules do not apply to them.TikTok CEO to face Congress on Thursday. Some saw the worsening circumstances - and institutional neglect - of this group of people as the key to the differences between the two New York blackouts. The blackout ultimately shone a spotlight on some of the city’s long-overlooked shortcomings, from glaring flaws in the power network to the much deeper-rooted issues of racial inequality and the suffering of the “American underclass,” as TIME dubbed it. A headline from Tokyo’s Mainichi Shimbun: PANIC GRIPS NEW YORK from West Germany’s Bild Zeitung: NEW YORK’S BLOODIEST NIGHT from London’s Daily Express: THE NAKED CITY. Newspapers abroad also focused on the looting.
Sample headline from the Los Angeles Times: CITY’S PRIDE IN ITSELF GOES DIM IN THE BLACKOUT. TIME noted how news media outside the city characterized the crisis:
Now it seemed as if New York had set itself to auto-destruct. One TIME editor remarked that the tenor of the blackout had more in common with the 1964 Harlem race riots than with the 1965 blackout, which had been generally seen as an example of the city’s resilience. “They set hundreds of fires and looted thousands of stores,” the magazine noted, “illuminating in a perverse way twelve years of change in the character of the city, and perhaps of the country.” As TIME put it, the 1977 blackout left the city powerless in terms of electricity and also powerless to stop the people who seized the opportunity to riot. Yet the effects were dramatically, devastatingly different.
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The earlier outage affected far more people (25 million, spanning New York and seven other states, plus two Canadian provinces, compared to the 9 million people in New York and its northern suburbs who lost power in ’77, per TIME). The mayhem of 1977 came as a night-and-day contrast with New York’s previous citywide blackout, in 1965. The sweltering streets became a battleground, where, per the Post, “even the looters were being mugged.” Opportunistic thieves grabbed whatever they could get their hands on, from luxury cars to sink stoppers and clothespins, according to the New York Post.
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