“It goes without saying that neither these videos nor any other ones I created glorified, endorsed, or depicted performing the challenge,” he emailed me on Wednesday.
One particularly clever video takes the bit to the next level, with the creator claiming that videos of people trying the challenge are being removed by TikTok moderators immediately-a way to explain why there’s no available video of any person actually doing this. Meanwhile on TikTok, Facebook, and Twitter, #PorcelainChallenge videos created by those in on the joke started asking people to spread warnings and share stories of (fake) injuries and deaths from those who tried it. His original video quickly passed half a million views, and TikTok slapped a warning on it for promoting dangerous acts. On Saturday, Durfee posted a call to action to his followers: to work together to get “boomers to freak out about a fake TikTok challenge.” He chose the porcelain challenge-which, once again, is just a thing Durfee made up-because it seemed like something that would be plausibly dangerous, but not something “the average person could go off and do very easily,” he told me this week.
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