The social media platform TikTok is one of the most popular apps in the world, with users infinitely scrolling through short video clips of their favorite content. Aside from destroying the attention span of the youth and addicting them to the infinite scroll of content, TikTok has birthed a variety of different trends in which users can partake.
One of the most recent TikTok challenges going viral is known as The Bucket Challenge, which involves placing a bucket over an unsuspecting person’s head. Gamerant described the social media trend:
For those who may not have heard of the bucket prank (also known as the bucket challenge), it involves the prankers filming themselves inside a store and placing a bucket or shopping basket over the heads of unsuspecting shoppers to get their reactions. This is not to be confused with the ice bucket challenge of years gone by in which participants would douse themselves with a bucket of ice-cold water. As one might expect, this newest TikTok trend is controversial since the targets of the prank aren’t always consenting.
However, this challenge recently hospitalized a California mom who was shopping in a Target where a group of teenage boys pulled the prank on her. Comic Sands reports:
According to The Los Angeles Times and FOX station KTTV, Lana Clay-Monaghan was shopping in the baby section of the Target in Tustin, California on Sunday when the bucket was suddenly placed over her head.
Clay-Monaghan, in an interview with KTTV, said the last thing she remembers before passing out is asking the boys for help while they laughed.
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