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Update: TikTok Banned the Milk Crate Challenge

Melissa August 26th, 2021
TOPSHOT - A man falls down of a pyramid of milk crates while he participates of the Milk Crate Challenge, on August 24, 2021 in Venice, California. - The Milk Crate Challenge, where participants walk up a pyramid of milk crates has gone viral in recent days on social media. According to US media some doctors are also warning that the injuries from the challenge are putting more stress on hospitals at a time when emergency rooms nationwide are overwhelmed because of the surge in coronavirus. (Photo by Apu GOMES / AFP) (Photo by APU GOMES/AFP via Getty Images)

If both of your ankles are still intact, you probably haven’t tried the “Milk Crate Challenge” yet.  Now TikTok has gone on record telling people NOT to do it.

In case you haven’t heard, the Milk Crate Challenge is the new DANGEROUS TikTok trend that’s been going viral.

You stack milk crates at various heights and then try to walk across them.  The middle one is seven crates high.  So it’s a long way to fall . . . and most people DO fall.

The hashtag “MilkCrateChallenge” was trending this week.  But now TikTok has BANNED it, and they’re scrubbing all those videos from their platform.

The statement they released says they prohibit content that “promotes or glorifies dangerous acts.”  And they encouraged people to, quote, “exercise caution in their behavior, whether online or off.”

Of course, trends like this helped TikTok get popular to begin with.  And some people still don’t think they’re doing enough to squash them.

Remember, this is the same platform that brought us the “Tide Pod Challenge” . . . and the “Coronavirus Challenge” where people just walked around licking stuff.