Forget the school pool or weekend
trips to Genesis. This summer,
teenagers have found something way
more productive to do with their
time; light themselves on fire in
hopes of becoming social media
famous on platforms like YouTube
and Vine.
The Daily Dot reports on this
phenomenon, saying "the trend isn’t
exactly new, but it seems to have
reached a fever pitch in the last
week: A 15-year-old in Lexington,
Ky., suffered second-degree burns
after torching his torso , while a
phony report of another boy dying in
Buffalo, N.Y. , has begun to make the
social media rounds."
If you search through the
#FireChallenge hashtag on Vine or
Twitter, you get a horrifying look at
what this trend entails. This is not
the old harmless swinging of your
finger through a lit candle.
These kids are dousing themselves in
lighter fluid and then taking a match
to their skin.
This same kid, who got his wish to go
viral, came back later with Part 2, an
explanation of what happens when
you light yourself on fire.
The message: don't do this at home.
You think?
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