Teenager dies after TikTok challenge



A 13-year-old boy died after overdosing on Benadryl while his friends were filming. ABC’s Lionel Moise reports how the family now hopes to change the regulations.

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49 comments

  1. Age restriction on Benadryl? Seriously why don’t you as a parent tell your child not to take copious amounts of any medication if anything tell them to buy some weed I mean it’s all on the parents and the app, TikTok, making kids, dumber and dumber by the year social media has only ever made kids stupider and stupider

  2. Mom and dad go shoot yourself you are to blame for this

  3. It was the parents fault I see it everyday lmao 5 years old with a tablet. I laugh and this is why. Parents don't know and don't want to be actual parents anymore

  4. Why are we not donating money to people that always actually need it ? Shows me how lost and stupid this generation is. How this family and damar hamlin raking in money is insane. Go fund me needs to be erased so many institutes and etc. Hey didn't someone die in your family of cancer or etc that's where I'm donating to wow the stupidity.

  5. Parents, delete tik tok app immediately.

  6. Now now hear me out jaw breaker licker or ice cream licker

  7. I must not release my inner Ohio joke

  8. Here's a new challenge: The Delete TikTok challenge! Just delete TikTok, and you succeed in the challenge!

  9. This is why TikTok needs to be shutdown, giving power to dummy’s is not a good idea

  10. Omfgg…. when I was younger we would take 20 to 30 at a time and trip balls. My God I was so so lucky… my condolences goes out to you and ur family!!

  11. Rip kid. Dumb decisions. Give kids flip phones not smartphones.

  12. Chinese are smart Americans are stupid

  13. Enough with TikTok because of dumb fiascos going on.

  14. I don’t deserve to do stupid things like that.

  15. I'm surprised parents allow kids unsupervised access to phones and computers. Seems like a disaster waiting to happen.

  16. When they going to delete TikTok ????

  17. I got a tiktok challenge, study hard and be a good human.

  18. play stupid games win stupid prizes

  19. More evidence that TikTok should be banned.

  20. There are no words. So many ways to die, but a TikTok challenge is what takes you out. 🤦‍♂️

  21. Murdoch bought abc and these reporters get a bounty for lying

  22. this is one of the hundreds of reasons as to why tiktok needs to be age restricted and with id verified before use, might sound unlikely and people might have different opinions, but this has to be the best option if people don't want tiktok banned as a whole.

  23. Yeah, let’s all blame our bad parenting on TikTok. This is ridiculous. Get a grip on your children and do your job as parents.

  24. Regulations aren't going to do anything. They'll get it from somewhere.

  25. Average stunt in Ohio

  26. Age restrictions on medications? How about age restrictions on social media and getting a cellphone? My condolences to the young man's family, but this is what happens when you let impressionable children have access to social media that promotes stupid behaviour like this.

  27. Natural selection is making a much needed comeback.

  28. The Chinese Communist party wants this kind stuff to Attack us in 🇺🇲

  29. The Lord works in mysterious ways

  30. Stupid is as stupid does

  31. I feel like teens are so bored and influenceable nowadays 😢

  32. It's pretty obvious that Philipp Budeiki also known online as Philipp Lis "Fox" (The creator of the Blue Whale Challenge) is behind all these dangerous challenges throughout the years in Tik-Tok as he quoted to aimed his victims who kill themselves 'biological waste' and that he is 'cleansing society' he was sentenced to prison since 2017 and then he got out in 2021. It presume he is out but cannot find confirmation online until this day.

  33. So now we're going to have "Jacob's Law" ?
    Okay 👌

  34. TikTok has been nothing but a a bunch of bad ideas. For several years, my city has had to deal w/these TikTok challenges which should be removed immediately. These teens have become a problem in my city. These challenges r either dangerous for young ppl or they r criminal activity making victims out of other Americans. This is why we need to ban TikTok if China won’t sell. These parents should talk to an attorney and see if they can sue TikTok. China and Russia r involved w/much of the big issues we’ve seen over recent years. They r trying to cause as much trouble in the US/West as they can, trying to install their handpicked far-right pro-autocratic politicians to make the US a puppet autocracy of Russia/China, and trying to defeat the US/West. We r n the beginning of World War III. The US/West has been attacked by Russia/China every day w/disinformation, cyber, economic, proxy/conning Americans to carry out the behavior Russia/China want to see in the U.S./West, and a conventional war in Ukraine. This is why it’s so important that we ban TikTok or make them sell. We don’t want to be in a war and have China pushing disinformation, propaganda, convincing young Americans to refuse to defend the US, and/or con young ppl to pressure their government to stop the war and allow Russia/China to win. This is exactly why China prohibits any U.S. social media platforms in China. Xi isn’t dumb and we shouldn’t be either! If they ban TikTok, I’m sure some American will create a replacement.

  35. Social media is a blight in many ways.

  36. Im thinking tik tok is the new Natural selection app

  37. Lol age restrictions because your water head kid did something stupid

  38. tiktok challenges are so stupid

  39. Sounds like they shouldn’t have let a little kid use tik tok.

  40. I'm actually more inclined to laugh at you than feel sorry for you if you for trying something so stupid.

  41. There's already an age restriction for Benadryl. You need an ID to buy it in CA.

  42. Hey American, did you know the TikTok in China doesn’t show anything but educational and wholesome videos to their people, and all they do here is using algorithms to make sure that people are seeing the worst of each other, and the dumbest challenges put on stage. It is cyber warfare and you’re all too ignorant to take two steps back and realize it.

  43. Maybe when these younger generations can understand that moderation of anything in life is key meeting moderation of even going on TikTok or any other social media crap they’ll realize that their life is so much better without social media. Tik Tok should be banned here anyway seeing as the Chinese spy on every single person attached to it, and even people not on TikTok.