15.
Creepy Users 45-year-old Hollis Lee Ball, was recently
sentenced in September of this year, 2018, to nineteen years in prison for some very
disturbing actions.
The U.S. Attorney's Office stated that Ball will serve a life term of supervised release…after
his 235 months in prison.
Through the app under its other name, Musical.ly, Ball, from Virginia, had contacted two Pennsylvania
children in March of 2017.
He groomed the children and asked one of them to send unclothed selfies.
The child did so.
This wasn't Ball's first offense.
He was a registered offender at the time in the state of Virginia, having been convicted
in 2006 of similar actions.
This just goes to show that parents must keep an eye on their children's online activity
and be aware of exactly who they're communicating with.
14.
Warning A popular song in India, entitled "Tera
Ghata," became a hit and then a social media craze in its own right.
The song was dubbed by many on TikTok, including one with four girls who would soon discover
that their lip-sync wasn't worth the jail time.
After they posted their short clip to this song, people began claiming that they were
arrested for creating and promoting salacious propaganda.
They were allegedly demonstrating vulgarity in the video and indecently misinterpreting
the song.
The girls were tracked down by authorities after a complaint had been filed with the
police against them and their responses to those who criticized their video.
The girls had taken to Twitter to harass those who sumbitted to the complaint.
It's scary how a simple lip sync video could land you in trouble with the police.
13.
Bungled Stunt TikTok added a "do not attempt" disclaimer
on clips that showcase stunt work.
This was after a man flung his two year old daughter around like an acrobat, in an attempt
to recreate a stunt he saw in a video.
In doing so, he gave his child a spine injury after dropping her on her head.
What stunt was he attempting?
The man was trying to flip his daughter 180 degrees and then drop her to rest in a sitting
position on his arms.
Instead, she fell head-first into the ground and sustained a spinal cord injury.
This forced TikTok to create a "risk warning system," as some videos are seen as safety
hazards when they go viral or catch on in a way that makes inept people want to imitate
what they see.
News of the accident gained traction on Weibo, where some thought the parent was mainly to
blame, not the app.
Others praised TikTok for taking action and creating the warning system.
It's just too bad common sense eludes some people.
12.
Arrested for Singing Sometimes, it's what you do on Tik Tok that
can get you into trouble.
One popular live-streamer, Yang, rose to fame from live-streaming herself singing.
Within a year, she had been signed for a reported $7 million by a video site, put out her first
record, gave a nationally televised performance, and gained a huge following.
Then, she sang China's national anthem.
When reviews rolled in, critics noted the levity of her performance, while Shanghai
police called it "an insult to the dignity of the national anthem."
Why?
What had she done?
During the opening lyrics of the "March of the Volunteers," she swung her arms,
conductor-style.
This small act was enough to get her arrested for her actions, where she spent 5 days behind
bars.
Yang apologized on her Weibo account to her fans and to the general public, saying she
was sorry for her "stupid, low-level mistakes."
Sounds like a heavy price to pay for a wave of the arms.
11.
Mercedes-Benz Thief When someone posted a video of themselves
taking emblems off cars for fun, a craze swept across China.
And one unlucky imitator was caught out.
A young man named Guo was discovered having taken the emblem of a Mercedes-Benz.
How was he found?
Surveillance footage showed him standing in front of the Mercedes for a few seconds before
jumping in his car and driving off.
The owner of the vehicle then called police to report his car emblem missing.
And he wasn't the only one.
When the police found Guo in his home, they discovered dozens of emblems - which he confessed
was an attempt to gain likes on TikTok.
The young guy told of his obsession with the app and his obsession with gaining an audience.
And theft can mean three years behind bars.
That's a lot of time to do for likes.
10.
Risking Life for Likes What has this world come to when people are
risking their lives just to get internet famous?
"I risked my life to take this, please like!" a Hong Kong teen wrote under a video of him
propping himself in dangerous places, including on a bridge's edge.
And he's not the only user risking his life for likes.
Using the Chinese version of TikTok, Douyin, a woman in mainland China posted a video of
herself hopping in front of a bus that was getting ready to pull away from the curb and
doing a little jig.
Her video was condemned by many for ignoring road safety.
Another girl wrote that she burnt her arm and that 'liking my video means wishing
me well.
These kind of pleas makes some users take drastic measures just to receive a virtual
high five.
9.
Prank Gone Too Far While mockery and satire of politics and politicians
is part and parcel in the US and other democracies, some nations don't take to it so kindly.
A one-minute video created by a TikTok user showed Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder
Singh speaking very slowly, as though he had been drinking.
The footage came from a recent event in which the chief minister was talking about flood
threats in the region.
It had first appeared in a WhatsApp group and then on TikTok.
The video, of course, had been doctored, but the so-called prank was taken much more seriously
than that.
The willful intent to sully the chief minister's image served as reason to register cases under
certain sections of the law.
A criminal case was registered by the Cyber Cell of the Punjab Police after it went viral.
It is unknown if the video's creator was ever caught, but the police also attempted
to remove the content from all the social media sites to which it had been posted.
It appears someone can't take a joke.
8.
Survival What would you do if you were about to be
boiled alive?
Well, one brilliant crayfish in China took matters into his own hands…or his own claw.
And it was all captured on TikTok.
In the video, the crayfish was dropped beside a pot of boiling water to be cooked and eaten.
But the crayfish wasn't having it.
Instead, he removed one of his claws and then crawled away as fast as his little legs would
carry him.
Luckily, the crayfish's wild attempt to save his own life and escape his doomsday
did indeed work.
Not only was the crayfish not eaten, but Jiuke - the TikTok user who caught it on video - took
him on as her own pet.
The video has received over a million views.
"I let him live, I already took him home and am raising him in an aquarium," Jiuke
wrote on Weibo.
Finally, a happy ending on TikTok.
7.
Women's Clothes When a man in India, was harassed for wearing
women's clothing in his music videos on TikTok, he took his own life.
Not only was the young man being harassed by anonymous trolls online, friends, family,
and acquaintances poked fun at the man to the point of wanting to take his own life.
The 24-year-old had been posting his dance videos on TikTok.
He jumped in front of a train when the taunting became too much.
Police officers said his smartphone was missing when they retrieved his body from the tracks.
One official said: "An inquiry with his family members revealed that the youth was
in great distress on being teased by his followers in the app for releasing videos in woman's
costumes."
One of the man's neighbors said the backlash really hurt him.
His family members, too, had been criticizing him for posting the videos in women's clothes,
after being told of the videos by other people.
Shortly before his passing, the user noted in his final video that he'd do whatever
he wanted and wouldn't be dissuaded by the "haters".
He also stated that he didn't understand why they were so critical when he posted videos
of himself in women's attire, as he had many videos in male roles too.
According to the police, they were looking into his social media interactions to find
the offending individuals who caused the man to take his own life.
They never clearly state what the repercussions might be though.
6.
Predators As we've already seen, when children enter
into the unsecured environment of social media, they can become prey to those who use these
apps to groom the most vulnerable among us.
Under the name Musical.ly, creepy people have been finding ways to take advantage, which
is cause for concern in Britain.
While privacy settings are available on the app - allowing young people to approve "followers"
and receive only messages from those they know, not every parent or child is aware of
these options.
This has led to some horrifying messages, both direct messages and comments made on
children's videos.
A parent from Merseyside in the UK explained how her thirteen-year-old daughter had received
a message that made her, as a mother, feel physically ill.
"I checked (my daughter's) phone and found a message asking her for a [unclothed] pic."
Although her daughter had not seen the message, she had a talk with her about what to do if
it should ever happen again.
She has also warned other parents about the dangerous potential of the app and tells everyone
to turn on privacy settings.
In yet another case in Birmingham, a mother stated that her eight-year-old daughter was
being stalked and groomed on the site.
The predator was also asking for pictures.
The mother went on to say that she took her daughter's phone and, after investigating
the guy's history further, discovered he'd been "liking" a lot of young girls'
videos, many of whom were around ten years old.
She made a point that no matter how well you educate your children on the matter, those
manipulative individuals who enter your children's lives through social media know what they're
doing; they know how to groom.
"This person has got into my little girl's brain in a short span of time," she wrote.
5.
Arrested for Viral Video Video-sharing sites can be used for good.
And they can be used for evil.
This case appears to be one of the latter variety.
In India, an individual - described as a "miscreant" in the online newspaper, The Hindu - posted
a video clip likely with the intent to spark tensions in the region.
And it did as intended.
Although no information was found about what, exactly, the video clip entailed, it triggered
major condemnation on social media and further road rokos, as they're called.
Road rokos in India are when individuals or groups obstruct a street in order to protest.
Their protests included demands to bring a case against the maker of the video.
The video clip went viral, and more protests occurred as a result.
The local police eventually registered a First Information Report against the individual
in question.
But this wasn't good enough for the protestors, who wanted to see the culprit arrested.
A cyber crime team was then brought in to search TikTok in order to find the individual
and, once they did, he was arrested and brought before the court.
It's unclear what he was charged with or if he's been sentenced.
But this goes to show that there can be major repercussions to what you post on online apps.
4.
Hashtag TikTok hashtags.
They're as scary as they come.
In fact, the app is prone to some dark and dangerous hashtags.
One of them?
#killingstalking.
This hashtag is meant for videos with dark themes, including knives being put to girl's
throats.
Then, there's #selfharm, in which users show videos of blades or bathtubs being filled
or cutting.
Any thoughts or words of self-harm are shared here.
The images are more than a little disturbing and damaging on both ends - for the user and
the viewer.
Some seek to encourage the poster not to self harm, while others goad them on.
While this is just a dark corner of the full spectrum of hashtags you find on TikTok, it's
a corner that you'd never want anyone you know and love - or even complete strangers
- to be backed into.
3.
More Predators Information Security specialist, Rick Floyd,
knows what it's like for children online.
His entire job involves safeguarding them from online predators.
Floyd's main concern is that the app connects young children directly to the world.
And he has cause for concern.
Many of the children Floyd spoke to told him horror stories about being groomed by strangers
online.
A parent's worst nightmare.
One of these instances involved not one, not two, but eight 3rd grade girls in this one
district.
They all believed they were speaking on Musical.ly with a 12-year-old boy with cancer.
But after the account had been investigated, the "boy" was discovered to be a 28-year-old
Kentucky man.
Although, it's unclear if the man was charged, what is clear is that letting your child on
these apps comes with great responsibility.
2.
Public Shaming China has a very extreme tactic for getting
debtors to pay up: public shaming.
One newly popularized way to shame is to use social media platforms to call out debtors.
The app served as the public shaming block for Kaifeng Longting People's Court in Longting,
Henan province, in central China, to post up their names and other personal information.
Their message?
Pay up, now!
The court created a video which identified eight debtors, including their names, partial
identities, and addresses, as well as their alleged debt amounts and posted it on Tik
Tok.
To top it all off, the list ran with scary music playing in the background.
This tactic was taken, of course, to gain support from the masses to publicly shame
them.
A court spokesperson also said that it was intended to "compress the surviving space"
of the debtors.
Not sure how much the "surviving space" of these people was compressed, but after
a week on the platform, the video had received 8,000 views.
The idea seems to have been riffing off of another court's attempt to shame in southern
China, which had released information about ten of its debtors the month before, even
offering rewards to the public for any information about their whereabouts.
Moreover, enormous billboards and televisions with the faces and identities of debtors was
propped up by another district court in the east of China.
Yikes.
I'd hate to be in debt in China.
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1.
Predator Bust "Operation Open House" landed 24 criminal
arrests after the undercover operation in New Jersey busted these two dozen predators.
The arrests were made over a five-day period.
In an attempt to lure the kids, the predators were actually the ones being lured to a house
in Toms River, New Jersey.
The officers, acting as the target, would claim to be a child home alone, to which the
culprits would then come to meet.
One of the men arrested was 47-year-old Richard Conte, a police sergeant for Howell Township.
He thought he'd been chatting with a 15-year-old girl.
He claimed he was 19 online.
Others who were arrested include college students, a firefighter, and a nurse.
The ICAC Task Force are the specially trained undercover law enforcement members who conducted
the operation and chatted with the targets.
Musical.ly or TikTok is only one of the apps used by the ICAC Task Force to target online
predators.
So, while parents must be more aware of what their children do on the internet, it appears
these potential predators days are numbered.
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