Sick for the sake of a ‘like’
Jan 07, 2021
3 minutes
It sounds too awful to be true, but the shocking craze sweeping social-media platform TikTok involves teenagers pretending to be victims of terrible events, including 9/11 and the Holocaust.
In the disturbing trend dubbed ‘trauma porn’, fame-hungry users make videos of themselves covered in fake cuts and bruises and describe events in explicit detail.
‘His hands were around my neck,’ says one girl pretending to be the victim of killer Ted Bundy.
The videos attract hundreds of thousands of likes, spurring teens
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