Why the fuck was a 9-year allowed to use TikTok and social media? I'm blaming the parents here.
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2026
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I’ve got a similar age kid and there’s no way I’d let them anywhere near TikTok and social media.
I feel for the parents here, it’s a tragedy and a preventable one at that. It must be so heartbreaking.
I appreciate this and we all need to embrace the mentality, and also you can't always be there to prevent them, they have friends they get exposed regardless, and there has to be something preventing this happening beyond just you, especially given the company has more than enough resources to make their product safer. We are FAR too complicit about this, they enjoy SO much grace it's absolutely unacceptable, and it's all by choice, we ought to hate these companies a lot more.
Yeah as much as we would all love the ability to, it's simply not possible to keep our kids in safety all the time. We should absolutely be hating these companies a lot more.
I’ve got tiktok dns blocked and IP blocked to the best of my ability
People just let their kids scroll for hours and it’s utterly insane.
Because they scroll for hours too?
I think there's blame enough to fall on both neglectful parents and an irresponsible behemoth of a company that absolutely can afford to invest in preventing this shit, but chooses not to because profits, of which there can never be enough, no matter how many children must be fed into the wood chipper.
I'm a bit tired of people completely ignoring the company's responsibilities in the profit making agreement with societies. We can absolutely make them do better, even if they squeal and whine about losing some tiny fraction of a percentile of infinite growth, which they will, every single time. Regulation has always been this way, cause you can't always blame the people/users for not knowing better, it won't stop people from being harmed which at the end of the day is the issue regardless of who is 100% at fault. That's while ignoring the hundreds of millions of dollars invested by that company specifically into making the product as addictive as imaginably possible, which I'd argue changes the dynamic quite a lot.
Why do half these 'challenges' seem like they were dreamed up by the types that live on 4chan?
Likely were.
You know there’s a video because she was doing it for tik tok, bet it ends up there mysteriously.
They weren't. We did stupid shit like this when I was a kid, long before the internet was even a thing.
Why do we even card people for liquor sales? Parents should parent.
You can add warning labels to everything. You can put in as many safety features as you want. You can restrict children and mentally challenged individuals from harmful sites and activities. You can try to add guard rails to everything you can think of.
Darwin will get his due.
80 kids died from this!? That's way more than id expect. Shame there isn't like some sort of filter that could happen on the program that they could apply to remove dangerous stuff.
What's that they use it for stuff like talking about certain people or files?