TikTok bans viral Devious Lick trend: What is the lick challenge? Wikimedia CommonsA bizarre new TikTok trend has people stealing random objects from their schools, including hand sanitizer, toilet paper dispensers, confiscated goods, ceiling tiles, and more. Now, TikTok has taken a stance against it. TikTok trends have become a cultural phenomenon within the platform. We\u2019ve seen everything from cooking recipe trends and frozen honey trends to comedic skits like the Deja Vu challenge, Bugs Bunny challenge, and more. However, some users have taken it a step further and participated in controversial trends like faking conditions and ailments and pretending to get arrested. The latest trend, though, might be the most bizarre one yet. It\u2019s one thing to knick a whiteboard marker or a pen from school, but a hand sanitizer dispenser? Printers and ceiling tiles? That\u2019s what these teenagers are doing, picking out the weirdest objects to steal from school in an attempt to out-do other users on the platform. In one of the first videos to gain traction, a student reveals that he\u2019s stolen a hand sanitizer dispenser from his school\u2019s bathroom, referring to it as a \u201cdevious lick.\u201d The strangest part is that\u2019s only the beginning. It then moves on to videos of other students stealing everything from people\u2019s shoes to toilet paper dispensers, car doors, confiscated phones, ceiling tiles, fire extinguishers, and even a full-blown traffic light head. View this post on Instagram People are discouraging others from taking part in the trend because, well, it\u2019s stealing. TikTok bans devious lick trend On September 15, TikTok officially denounced the trend, and removed the hashtag. \u201cWe expect our community to stay safe and create responsibly, and we do not allow content that promotes or enables criminal activities. We are removing this content and redirecting hashtags and search results to our Community Guidelines to discourage such behaviour.\u201d We expect our community to create responsibly \u2013 online and IRL. We’re removing content and redirecting hashtags & search results to our Community Guidelines to discourage such behavior. Please be kind to your schools & teachers. pic.twitter.com\/mIFtsYwFRb \u2014 TikTokComms (@TikTokComms) September 15, 2021 They also asked that users be kind to schools and teachers. However, it hasn\u2019t stopped wide-eyed TikTokers from trying to cash in on the trend in the hopes that their video will be the next one to go viral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TikTok bans viral Devious Lick trend: What is the lick challenge? Wikimedia CommonsA bizarre new TikTok trend has people stealing random objects from their schools, including hand sanitizer, toilet paper dispensers, confiscated goods, ceiling tiles, and more. Now, TikTok has taken a stance against it. TikTok trends have become a cultural phenomenon within the platform. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}