That was what I was referring to. I was being a bit hyperbolic, but a year in national service (beyond just the military) to do community service and gain skills in general not a new proposal. Pete Buttigieg suggested it after HS as part of his candidacy during the 2020 democratic primary.

Sadly, this makes me miss when people pretended to slip and fall at the grocery store so they could throw milk jugs in the air and make a mess.

This is also assuming there's some mastermind at the school compiling all this data versus some teacher working essentially a second job dealing with broken chromebooks every day because kids are irresponsible. Suggeating this is anything but good old fashioned vandalism of school property is ludicrous, but it's also an expected conclusion for here on Lemmy. Some of the comments in this thread are seriously unhinged.

To sum it up, kids are dumb and always have been and it's nothing more than that.

I remain utterly convinced that Tiktok is nothing but a chinese psyop experiment to see how far they can manipulate people into actions that would otherwise be prevented by our brains screaming in self preservation.

Has there ever been a "good" trend on tiktok? Every week its just another destructive thing that gullible idiots are being tricked into doing.

That’s actually harming someone, at least the janitor but it’s a hygiene issue and potential disease source. Yes it’s a stupid teenage prank but it does actual harm to someone else. Not cool (plus i don’t get why this would be funny: I’d groups it with the crayon eater and glue huffer , possibly complain to the school about special kids that need more assistance)

Nearly 20 years ago, I was in a computer programming class surrounded by clunky towers and desktops.

Suddenly, a loud popping, then one of the machines starts belching smoke like a budget fog machine. The kid using it is calmly moved to another station while the prof investigates.

Fifteen minutes later - pop. Smoke again.

Turns out the kid was jamming a paperclip into the power supply like he was playing Operation: Arson Edition.

That was his last day.

On the bright side, computers are a lot cheaper now - and kids are still dumb. So, maybe progress?

Check out the down/up votes on your comment vs mine, and also the stupid conspiracy theory one I replied to. People on here are so brainwashed that they follow every dogpile they see, which in this case is purely because of who is saying something - me in this case. I’ve got a bunch of lemmings following every comment I make across instances just spouting hatred and abuse and downvoting and reporting everything. An admin has even confirmed to me that 90% of the reports they get, and there are lots, are from the same users over and over and over on every comment I make.

Lemmy is so far beyond gone it’s not even funny at this point. The actual reality and truth doesn’t matter, only what the mob decides does.

This seems like something they should have engineered out of a product primarily used by schoolchildren.

We skipped our 3310s down the road Infront of our school without tiktok brainrot.
Kids today need chinese to tell them to be stupid. Back in our day, we were stupid on our own!

Has there ever been a "good" trend on tiktok?

The ice bucket challenge was making rounds again. But there's basically infinite harmless trends that nobody thinks of. The 100 men versus 1 gorilla thing is a trend and unless somebody jumps in a gorilla pen for Harambe 2.0 it's been harmless.

Reminder that the ice bucket challenge is something that raises awareness and funds for ALS research.

People have just been doing dumb things for reputation since forever. We had the cinnamon challenge back in our day.

yeah, the cinnamon challenge was dumb.. but it didnt involve mass destruction, psychotic behavor, or contaminating food\ in stores.

So its hardly comparable.

Also it wasnt Tiktok. Predates it, significantly.

My question was "was there ever a good trend from tiktok"

Icebucket challenge was from before tiktok existed.

So kinda proving my point.

Engineer out the electricity?

I know, but it's recently began again on TikTok after years of being a pretty dead trend.

back in our day, our stupid wasnt malicious mass destruction or food tampering.

It was actual stupid shit, like trying to jump over your friend as he raced towards you on his bike, or falling off a roof, Shit that only hurt yourself, if anyone. Wasnt breaking and entering and destroying shit so people in the next town over would think you were cool. We were stupid, but we werent that stupid.

the worst part is expecting kids to learn about computers using a fucking Chromebook.

You can design something to survive pin shorting.

Nah kids always do things that end up being malice since they don't know it is maliceful.
Kits are by definition retarded. Its expected of them to do dumb things.

The fact you didn't just means you were lucky.

Chromebooks aren't replacing computer classes. They're replacing textbooks and mimeographed handouts for a variety of classes. Most of that stuff is web based now, and Chromebooks are cheap so they're the perfect tool for the job.