TikTok trend of being fake arrested criticized for bizarre viral videos TikTok: GageBills\/UnsplashTikTok users have started an unusual trend where they fake being arrested, but not everyone is best pleased by it. For the longest time, videos on TikTok were all about showing off someone\u2019s artistic skills. You\u2019d regularly find talented singers, dancers, and artists with a few swipes. Now, the video-sharing platform resembles Vine in its heyday, with a focus now being placed on skits and attempts at pranks that could see a video explode in views and ultimately go viral. There have been plenty of strange trends over the last few months, but the newest \u2013 one where users are faking being arrested \u2013 has raised a few eyebrows of its own. TikTok\u2019s fake arrest trend Pretending to get arrested is nothing new for the internet, it\u2019s been a longtime prank, but it\u2019s usually used to get a reaction out of a group of people. In this new trend, TikTokers are pretending to be arrested in private before turning around making glances at the camera \u2013 usually changing the whole vibe of the post. Some of the posts have racked up a few million views, with some viewers believing it\u2019s completely real, while others can\u2019t believe that it\u2019s not been outed as a fake. There are others that are openly roasting the trend and taking shots at the TikTokers too. \u201cThe only crime they committed was this video,\u201d said one viewer. \u201cSo, you just opened ur phone and thought this was okay to post,\u201d added another. Some other viewers questioned how the videos had gone viral, given that there isn\u2019t really a trend name or hashtag attached to it. As embarrassed as some viewers might be of the posts, they show no sign of stopping as the posts continue to stack up and achieve pretty big views. Who knows where it might go from here, but not everyone is falling for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TikTok trend of being fake arrested criticized for bizarre viral videos TikTok: GageBills\/UnsplashTikTok users have started an unusual trend where they fake being arrested, but not everyone is best pleased by it. For the longest time, videos on TikTok were all about showing off someone\u2019s artistic skills. You\u2019d regularly find talented singers, dancers, and artists […]<\/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-60850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60850","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=60850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}