A TikTok went viral calling for kids to shoot up their school and now half the schools in my county are closed tomorrow. Trying to find the TikTok now
Edit: It’s always very telling when I learn about something from colleagues instead of from online because apparently these memes having something to do with the new Spiderman movie
My teacher mom said that it escalated to “hit a teacher” to which I responded “they’re fucking with you. They know you’re going to overreact. There is a world of difference between breaking soap dispensers and assaulting teachers with admins and an armed SRO around the corner. This is exactly the point of the TikTok rumor. Bathrooms are the only places on campuses that aren’t surveilled.”
Probably some down-stream effect of viewing children as property of the parents with no critical thinking capacity of their own.
It was actually a rumor started by a fucking cop, of course... there's a good Reply All episode on that
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when i was in HS I worked at a movie theater and we had this powder you could throw onto wet stuff that would instantly turn it into like gel, I stile a bunch of it and we put it into all the toilets at school. We loved doing a bit of tomfoolery.
One of my most effective strategies for cheering myself up is reminding myself that I’m not in high school anymore
Truly it is hell, and yet I was homeschooled for half of high school and that was infinitely worse. And I like my parents. I think maybe the ages of like 12-18 just suck balls.
Wage slavery during adulthood is worse because there are no breaks and employers have a much easier time getting away with abuse than teachers. I don't want to imagine the hell of having to work while going to school and getting the worst of both worlds.
100% agree, at least so far. Having to work sucks, but at least I have some level of autonomy over my free time. I can go where I want when I want, eat what I want, etc. Being an adult is way fucking better.
I had a decent time in high school. Jr. High was a nightmare though.
Wonder if we're going to see a rise in black pilled zoomers. Generally from what I've seen Gen Z seem cool but there's troubling elements like this.
I mean how could you not be fucked up growing up in this shit storm? A lot of my peer group has weird ticks about money just from the mental scars of living through the 08 recession. These kids were born in a post-9/11, post-recession world and are now currently going through their government willingly throwing them to the wolves during covid
My nephew is a teen and has been cracking jokes about fighting in the Climate Wars for years
I’m like right on the line of questionable between zoomer and millennial, but I usually say zoomer because I don’t remember 9/11 or ever not having access to the internet. My Instagram bio currently is “My retirement plan is dying in the climate wars”
I’m also currently taking the max amount in grad school loans they’ll let me and trying to live it up some while advanced society still exists.
Gen Z is so utterly fucked. I feel a lot of solidarity with them.
Yes but this is just an example of teenage stupidity and terrified adults. A modern day satanic panic. When the Zoomers really hit the black pill its going to be scary and we won't warn any of you about it coming.
Man if this is the naive, optimistic zoomers it’ll be real interesting to see the jaded, cynical zoomers of 10 years from now.
It’s 100% a satanic panic thing. Conservatives are massively freaked out by Tiktok because it’s not American owned and they think algorithms are demonic.
Pretty sure most everyone here is a zoomer. That's just under 27 yea?
Early 30s gang rise up, but not too quickly, id appreciate it if you'd let me take my time getting up for something.
I'm among the oldest of gen z and I'm 22. 27 year olds are kinda young millennials.
Cutoff is somewhere vaguely between 1996 and 2001. Within that range I feel like which you fit more with depends on some cultural factors and how they affected you specifically. Like, “Do you remember 9/11?” and “Do you remember a time before the internet?” If your answers to those are both no (like me), you’re probably a zoomer. If the answer is yes, you’re probably a millennial.
If you remember getting kicked off the internet because someone called your house you might be a millennial
True, another thing I don’t remember. We had broadband since as long as I can remember. I remember the internet being slow and shitty, but it never had anything to do with the phone.
I think so, there's some old heads though, not many.
Yeah but I've seen a lot of comrade zoomers too, so it's not all bad?
back in 1999 in the months after Columbine there was a huge bomb-threat fad in schools across America since any kid could just phone the school, say there's a bomb, hang up, and thus force them to cancel all classes for the day
All four years I went to high school we had one bomb threat-related day off. These would also turn into two days off for me, because the next day I would see that they were checking bags, turn around and go home. I had almost flawless attendance despite skipping any time I saw that happening, so nobody ever came looking for me.
Half the time these aren’t actually on TikTok. It’s often something a chud facebook group makes up and gets parents to freak out about. The parents then mention it to their kids.
yeah first i heard of this is my prolific facebook user mother, not my prolific tiktok user brother. that was my first instinct when hearing her hysterically ask my brother about it, he hadnt heart of it before then.
lmaooooo so that's what my dad had to do fucking overtime for jfc i thought he was talking about devious licks on the phone
I heard about it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia/comments/ri4k6v/from_my_kids_school/
There are a ton of schools all over the country responding to it, based on the comments, and it seems like people are pretty scared. Crazy that it started just from a tiktok.
One person mentioned it made its way into local reporting
Even if this was nothing, it has been signal boosted to A Thing. Personally given our track record with school shootings and proliferation of fascist cops who have no bound legal duty to intervene, I would also err on the side of caution.
