Paying tribute, Tina told the Lancashire Post that her grandson had a 'heart of gold'. She said the family have been left 'utterly devastated' by the loss of Tommie-lee, who was 'bright', 'energetic' and the 'life and soul of any room'.
Tina told the outlet: 'We don't want any other children to follow TikTok or be on social media.
'In fact, we want to get TikTok taken down and no children to be allowed on any social media under 16 years of age.
'This is breaking us all but we want to help save other children's lives and give families awareness to keep their children safe.'
Another day, another Darwin Award, and another family member who thinks this entitles her to dictate terms for all.
The grandmother said she had received many messages from other parents 'thanking her' for raising awareness of the challenge. Tina said she knew of one woman who had 'no idea' about the harmful social media trends and her children 'happily' sit on TikTok in their bedrooms.
'She has now removed all social media from their devices and is so grateful that we are openly talking about it,' the teacher added.
Did she miss all the other stories then?
In 2022, a distraught mother revealed how her son died in front of his friends while attempting a deadly challenge he saw on social media.
Leon Brown, of Cumbernauld, Scotland, was just 14-years-old when he was found unresponsive in his bedroom after reportedly attempting the same dangerous TikTok trend as Archie Battersbee.
His heartbroken mother, Lauryn Keating, issued a warning to fellow parents after her son's friend revealed he had wanted to replicate the choking game after seeing it online.
There's at least three that made the national press. So why should this one be any different?
5 comments:
I've no sympathy for parents who give thier idiot spawn, doulble barrel chav names, before we even get to the inability to police thier kids online activity and the demands that somrthing should be done because it isn't thier fault
Can this not be simply called the Darwinism Effect?
Aren't these kinds of stupid challenge the main thing that Tic Tok is known for? I remember the thing about eating washing machine pods and there has been others since then. As a kid I never got the thing about peer pressure, I never felt the need to do stupid stuff just because everyone else did. This concept was around long before there was such a thing as social media.
Yay! Twenty years late, these trendsetters just invented glue sniffing.
"I've no sympathy for parents who give thier idiot spawn, doulble barrel chav names..."
Yes, I thought that trend was over now.
"Can this not be simply called the Darwinism Effect?"
Indeed it can!
"Aren't these kinds of stupid challenge the main thing that Tic Tok is known for? I remember the thing about eating washing machine pods and there has been others since then. As a kid I never got the thing about peer pressure, I never felt the need to do stupid stuff just because everyone else did. "
Me neither. I remember there was a 'induced fainting' craze going round my school. I thought kids who tried it were idiots.
"Yay! Twenty years late, these trendsetters just invented glue sniffing."
I'm only surprised it isn't organic, artisan small-batch glue!
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