“When I see these videos, I think, ‘Are we as bored as parents and so desperate to make content?'” On TikTok, Sarah, a well-known influencer on the social network for her account “mom.uncharted”. , returned to a strange trend that emerged on the platform.
The “crack egg challenge” consists of breaking an egg, by surprise, on your child’s forehead. Hundreds of videos accumulate on TikTok, with tens of millions of views.
Some children barely react, others enjoy it, and others seem confused and end up crying. All under the funny, even hilarious look of the mother of the family.
While the trend is clearly taking off, it’s also starting to see more backlash emerge. “Offending your child just to entertain the gallery for 8 seconds, is it really worth it?” asks a user in the comments of one of the videos. “It hurts more than it seems, huh,” underlines another.
This trend is reminiscent of another that had been just as viral in 2019: the “cheese challenge.” This time, the goal was to throw a slice of cheese into his son’s face.
“It is more than a lack of respect, it is a lack of understanding of what a baby is, of what he is capable of doing, of understanding, and a singular inability to be empathetic,” Lisa Ouss, a child psychiatrist, explained at the time in FranceInfo. Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital.
On TikTok, challenges, more or less intelligent, regularly arise with sometimes real health risks. In May, a tendency to explode microwaved hard-boiled eggs caused severe burns to a woman.
Source: BFM TV
