So you may remember this challenge called devious licks.

That is Drew Harwell, he covers technology for the post.

Supposedly it was this big viral sensation on TikTok where teens were going into their

school and they were vandalizing school property and just going wild in the bathrooms.

And it became such a big thing because local newspapers and TV stations were talking about

it.

Another viral TikTok trend going in the wrong direction it's happening in our local

schools.

So this tried you by the heart of it it's called devious licks and students have been

recording themselves.

Higher waterfelt.

It's called the devious lick challenge.

And the challenge is to successfully steal items from school for online popularity.

There was even letters from senators to TikTok executives saying, hey, we need to haul your

executives to DC to talk about these harmful and destructive acts.

The business model is glorify, destructive, sometimes deadly actions on the part of children

and teens who are attracted to the site purposefully so TikTok can make more money.

But the more we found out the more we realized that actually the devious licks challenge

wasn't just a TikTok thing if anything it had started on Facebook.

And this trend was not nearly as big as all the panic made it seem.

But there's a reason for that.

These stories about devious licks on new stations and the scary talking points being paraded

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