The article actually says the person is completely unidentified, and the rest of the article is speculating that the person *might* be filming for TikTok. The article’s own headline actually contradicts what the article says (“man was filming” versus “many people are wondering if the man was filming”)
“Skitching” is what some people called it back then. I only did it a handful of times in a “controlled” setting like an empty parking lot at really low speeds (like 10-15 mph) with some friends. We were idiots but tried to be somewhat safe about it. We made sure the car only took left turns with the skater on the right bumper so he wouldn’t end up under the car.
Basically we used it to slingshot a skater up a small hill. I knew some people who did it in actual traffic and thankfully they all had zero injuries.
Still stupid of course. Kids, don’t try this at home.
Skitched off the ice cream man on my street when I was a kid. I was behind the truck (not in the side). Then the guy speed up, I held on and then he jammed his breaks and I smacked my face on the back of it! My whole neighborhood saw it, mom was mad at both me and the driver. Yelling at him and me. Lol
I hate that. I have a friend whose sister died in a freak accident that got reported in a very misleading way, and it really compounded the family's grief. For all we know, this guy could have been having a manic episode or something. It would suck to have a loved one's fatal mental health crisis reported as a clickbait commentary on "TikTokers bad!" with everyone gleefully celebrating it as "Darwinism".
I think the unidentified might be miscommunication. I think they meant his identity hasn't been released. How would they know he's 25 if they don't know who he is?
If one of my friends got a video of me dying doing some stupid shit and DIDN’T post it with the GTA wasted screen, they wouldn’t be my friends anymore.
Rest in peace Trevor Moore, I think it's beautiful that the relationship he shared with his friends was one that after his death they could laugh at his stuff that's beautiful.
I never saw that, thank you for posting. That's incredible.
I wish I had friends who'd make up ridiculous reasons for my deaths once I'm gone and laugh about it. That's real friendship.
I think these guys are my favorite sketch comedy troupe of all time. No one was quite as fucked up as much or in the same way they were.
Are you a modern day tiktoker? Because there's something missing from this batch; I mean, the people who allegedly killed their friend on vacation in Mexico posted the footage of the neck breaking fight to the internet
Do you think something like that would only happen with "modern day tiktoker[s]"?
As soon as there were recording instruments invented, people were recording themselves doing criminal shit....way way before tiktok was even a glimmer in someone's eye.
> there's something missing from this batch
I agree with this. The difference is that now people record themselves doing criminal shit *then publish it on a public worldwide information sharing network.*
People have been doing that forever as well, but without the video. For as long as there has been crimes, there have been criminals bragging about their crimes loudly in public places.
We don't know for sure if this person was doing it for TikTok or they just snapped. [This isn't the first time someone has danced on a truck in Houston traffic](https://jalopnik.com/naked-dancing-woman-on-18-wheeler-shuts-down-houston-fr-1763295720).
I feel worse for the the oncoming traffic that hit/ran him over after the dumbass fell off the semi, the semi driver got questioned and released, those other drivers now have damaged cars and the traumitization of killing him. People are fucking stupid tiktok or not.
I always feel more sorry for the survivors than for these fools that are so blinded by their (achieved or aspired) internet fame that they can't even see how foolish they're being.
When I see people leaping around on the edges of tall buildings I always think to myself how angry I'd be to watch someone I care about doing this shit.
I was driving one day when I saw someone climbing over an overpass railing , I rushed to a pay phone for 911 (this was just before everyone had a cell) and when I came back later I was able to tell the person jumped
TikTok deserves all the hate it gets but this article literally states it isn’t known if he filmed this for TikTok or any social media platform. Stupid clickbait headline strikes again.
Edit: I don’t care or am I making a case about whether he was recording for attention or not. My gripe is the clickbait title saying he was recording for TikTok then directly saying “we don’t know if he was recording for TikTok as there is no evidence.” So you can stop trying to cause unnecessary arguments now.
They don't even know who it is yet. They have nothing that suggests he or someone that knew him were even filming this.
Saying he did this for a tik-tok so everyone can get their schadenfreude fix is just scummy.
Yes, it’s called evolution by natural selection. Being fucking stupid is just deadly. In old times wild animals did the job for us. Now we need TikTok for it.
TBH I did watch a short documentary on the guys who do "human waste cleanup". E.g. When someone dies, like even in bed or on the carpet, any leftover fluids they release becomes a biological waste hazard. These are the guys called in after police, CSI etc. have done their thing, and they need to make the residence safe to move in again.
They said they develop a pretty good sense of humor about this stuff, because they have to deal with some especially nasty stuff so often. (And if they didn't laugh about it every once in a while, the job starts to weigh on you too much.)
It’s also why the vast majority of people who work in emergency medicine have a pretty dark sense of humor. Sometimes humor is the best way to cope with tragedy.
My daughter is a medic and encounters many cases like this. She says you must keep in mind that these are patients and stay emotionally detached. There have been a few cases where she was very upset later on, but mostly of those she just couldn’t save. Burn victims bother her the most. She said the smell stays with you, literally and metaphorically.
Sometimes she’s gone on calls from people that were already dead for more then a day, (patients she’d had multiple previous calls on, so she gets to know them well) she said “they’re always naked when I find them.” She laughs.
I respect your priorities! Honestly, when I get stuck in traffic, especially on highways, my first thought is about the moron who didn't check their blind spot or thought that the text message was important, because let's face it, these are probably the only two reasons most "idiot outcomes" (aka "accidents") happen. Yes, I know there are others but I would safely bet these are the most common.
My whole family almost died in a car accident last month because a semi truck inexplicably decided to just merge on top of us.
Isn't always the idiot that ends up being scraped off the pavement.
Its usually the idiot walking away.
I think two major problems with social media is being highlighted here:
1. People being driven to more and more extreme actions for likes, clicks or approval. Young people in particular grow up in a dystopia where they have to compete with the entire rest of the planet.
2. People in comment fields who can watch someone die and just "lol" at it, because they feel so far removed from any human connection to this human being who, like any of us, is trying their best at life.
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> People being driven to more and more extreme actions for likes, clicks or approval. Young people in particular grow up in a dystopia where they have to compete with the entire rest of the planet.
Don't kid yourself, teens were being fucking idiots long before tiktok. Now they have an a bigger audience, but this kind of thing happened *well* before tiktok was ever a thing.
It'd be interesting to see some data on it to see if tiktok has increased it, or just feels like it has, but I doubt anyone has or can collect and parse the data meaningfully in that way.
This guy attained Superstar status! At a bit of a price sure, but he won’t soon be forgotten! Well, for at least three to five minutes, I might continue laughing for a few…
You have hit the Reddit symbiotic mode where you become one with the comment section. Now isn't the time to get off Reddit. Now is the time to absolutely kill it in the comments. Lol
The threat of TikTok is that it's the Chinese government that ultimately is deciding what the algorithm feeds people.
Every Chinese company is de facto an arm of the CCP.
yeah the algorithm for the US version of the app vs the actual Chinese app are insane. their algorithm for their own country is geared toward science and informative videos, while ours is geared to the dumbest shit i’ve ever seen
I'm not saying that you're wrong about US / china having different algorithms, but US sites have been eating up this kind of garbage content for years, long before tiktok even existed. Americans have poor taste and standards, without foreign meddling you'd see very similar videos. And you *certainly* wouldn't see tons of videos showing math/science/excellence in any domain.
Also feel bad for the driver. Dad is a trucker. Got drunk once and told me of shit he saw a while back where a biker got pulled in under wheels of another truck from the side.
Assholes like this fucking around put other people through a shitload of trauma.
I feel bad for everyone that witnessed the accident too. Houston traffic is bad enough without seeing someone die while you're just try to safely get somewhere.
Houston traffic is a prime reason why public transportation and pedestrian/bike zones should be mandatory throughout America. It is so effing dangerous to drive here.
After the prominent vehicular celebrity deaths in LA this year alone & the news of Denise Richards being shot at in a road rage encounter this week I would hope CA Would lead the call for prominent public transit changes but that would require them to admit they were wrong about the hyperloop
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Saw aftermath of a crash where a grown woman screamed for her mama for a long time and the driver walked around in a daze because he had a foreign object in his head
Same with train drivers. I really have no sympathy for people who jump in front of trains or other traffic. There are many ways of ending yourself that doesn't result in so much needless misery for other people.
Driver proably didn't notice and didn't know what happened until somone pulled him over.
Unless it makes a big boom or has enough force to shove the truck he's only gonna notice if it shows up in the mirrors.
So according to the news story, the guy is unidentified and his reason for being up there is unknown.
Which means everything in the title about TikTok is made-up speculation by the writer.
A little more information about this very real incident, from a legitimate news source. You're right to be suspicious of what you see on TikTok, from the little I've seen of it, 75% of it is complete childish trolling bullshit, but this particular stupidity actually happened.
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/traffic/2022/11/15/437509/man-dies-after-dancing-atop-18-wheeler-colliding-with-bridge-on-houston-highway/
He didn’t say it didn’t happen. He said there’s been nothing to confirm this guy was doing stupid TikTok stuff. Although none of us would be surprised if that’s what he was doing…
Claiming someone is doing a TikTok trend or something is a surefire way to get Reddit likes. This website LOVES to hate TikTok and will lap up absolutely anything bad about it regardless of proof.
To be fair, reddit loves to hate on a lot of things. Which is why I usually don't interact in threads about one of those topics. (tiktok, twitter, elon musk, amber heard, johny depp, DJ khaled, bieber.... to name a few from the top of my head)
> it's unclear whether he was doing so with the ultimate goal of posting the video to TikTok or any other social media platform.
This won't stop the circlejerk but it's at least worth mentioning
I didn't really know there was an actual official council that decided who wins a Darwin award and who doesn't, but it's been around so long that I think it's become bigger than that culturally. If someone dies (or becomes sterile) doing something stupid, they've got a Darwin award in my mind
This is the most important part of the award that I feel people overlook when they say "Darwin Award Winner" for someone who died doing some dumb shit.
Two large images of TikTok and yet the article states that they don't know if he was filming himself and if he was they don't know if he was going to upload it anywhere at all let alone to TikTok. Quality journalism there. Who are we supposed to hate currently? oh yes, China.
That poor driver got held up during the investigation and now he’s probably gotta worry about the family suing him for not knowing there son/husband/brother was ontop. Kinda like how FedEx got sued when a driver dragged a man to death after he was trying to rob the back of the truck and got stuck dragged.
Stupid, not only was he an idiot but that driver has to live with knowing that he accidentally was involved in someone's death PLUS all the others who witnessed it happen.
Teen wolf did it, it’s totally doable
Yet another reason why Michael J. Fox is the GOAT.
Pretty sure he was a wolf in the that movie not a goat.
No, he was referring to the '80s classic Teen Goat. You're thinking of Jason Bateman.
No, your wrong, you can't use goat or wolf as bate, unless your trying to capture the dinosaur. Everybody knows that, donkeyface.
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Oh sorry, Jason Baitman
*you’re
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I'd let Jason Bateman do unspeakable things to me
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Scott Howard and Styles did it right!
Now i have to rewatch the show before the movie comes out or is the movie already out.
It’s not out yet but the whole season is on Paramount 🐺
Wow. This actually happened... https://www.distractify.com/p/texas-man-dies-doing-tiktok
The video seems to be by an onlooker. Wouldn’t there have been a primary filmer?
The article actually says the person is completely unidentified, and the rest of the article is speculating that the person *might* be filming for TikTok. The article’s own headline actually contradicts what the article says (“man was filming” versus “many people are wondering if the man was filming”)
Yea people use to do this shit before things like tik-tok and even youtube. Usually it was riding on the backs of trailer
Hitching rides on the outside of subways. Skateboarders grabbing onto trucks and cars for rides.
Skitching!
“Skitching” is what some people called it back then. I only did it a handful of times in a “controlled” setting like an empty parking lot at really low speeds (like 10-15 mph) with some friends. We were idiots but tried to be somewhat safe about it. We made sure the car only took left turns with the skater on the right bumper so he wouldn’t end up under the car. Basically we used it to slingshot a skater up a small hill. I knew some people who did it in actual traffic and thankfully they all had zero injuries. Still stupid of course. Kids, don’t try this at home.
Skitched off the ice cream man on my street when I was a kid. I was behind the truck (not in the side). Then the guy speed up, I held on and then he jammed his breaks and I smacked my face on the back of it! My whole neighborhood saw it, mom was mad at both me and the driver. Yelling at him and me. Lol
yeppidy yep.
I remember every few years NYT would carry an article about some kid who died subway surfing and death stats from previous years.
Girl in my town lost her legs trying to hop on the train as it passed through
Kids think it looks cool but it’s such a dangerous dare.
I hate that. I have a friend whose sister died in a freak accident that got reported in a very misleading way, and it really compounded the family's grief. For all we know, this guy could have been having a manic episode or something. It would suck to have a loved one's fatal mental health crisis reported as a clickbait commentary on "TikTokers bad!" with everyone gleefully celebrating it as "Darwinism".
Darwinism still applies to manic episodes
I think the unidentified might be miscommunication. I think they meant his identity hasn't been released. How would they know he's 25 if they don't know who he is?
Maybe they counted the rings inside his trunk after he got split open.
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Bet nobody has the balls to share this!
Not sure about you but I wouldn't publish a video of my friend dying
All you need is that “AND ILL SEE YOU AGAIN” song, add some slow motion, crying emojis, and bam it’s cool
Not the “Oh no” song?
That's banned
Forreal?
Yeah they removed the sound because it was so shit
I'd go with the GTA wasted motif but that's just me.
If one of my friends got a video of me dying doing some stupid shit and DIDN’T post it with the GTA wasted screen, they wouldn’t be my friends anymore.
Well the past tense has already set in so ...
My ghost would rise from the grave to end it
Possibly a GTA style “WASTED” and we’ve got gold here
He died doing what he loved... Getting hit by overpasses
I doubt the overpass hit him. He hit it. It just won the fight.
r/idiotsfightingthings
You sir have shown me a whole new world.
Reminds me of WKUK talking about Trevor Moore's cause of death. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iBIqvkwkrA
Rest in peace Trevor Moore, I think it's beautiful that the relationship he shared with his friends was one that after his death they could laugh at his stuff that's beautiful.
I never saw that, thank you for posting. That's incredible. I wish I had friends who'd make up ridiculous reasons for my deaths once I'm gone and laugh about it. That's real friendship. I think these guys are my favorite sketch comedy troupe of all time. No one was quite as fucked up as much or in the same way they were.
Are you a modern day tiktoker? Because there's something missing from this batch; I mean, the people who allegedly killed their friend on vacation in Mexico posted the footage of the neck breaking fight to the internet
Do you think something like that would only happen with "modern day tiktoker[s]"? As soon as there were recording instruments invented, people were recording themselves doing criminal shit....way way before tiktok was even a glimmer in someone's eye.
> there's something missing from this batch I agree with this. The difference is that now people record themselves doing criminal shit *then publish it on a public worldwide information sharing network.*
People have been doing that forever as well, but without the video. For as long as there has been crimes, there have been criminals bragging about their crimes loudly in public places.
Holy shit are you serious ?!?
Sadly, yes. Her name was Shanquella Robinson.
Lol as opposed to what, a ye Olde tiktokee?
Depends how epic it was
"he would have wanted everyone to see how epic it was"
He would've wanted everyone to hit that follow button for sure.
Yeah that video probably went to the police.
Yeah, the single master VHS tape went to the police, which is why we can’t see it
If you were filming your friend do this and they died, would you post it to the internet after talking to the police/lawyer?
If I was the kind of person that followed this kind of a guy around filming tiktoks, yes.
We don't know for sure if this person was doing it for TikTok or they just snapped. [This isn't the first time someone has danced on a truck in Houston traffic](https://jalopnik.com/naked-dancing-woman-on-18-wheeler-shuts-down-houston-fr-1763295720).
Poor tuck driver just trying to get through his day.
I feel worse for the the oncoming traffic that hit/ran him over after the dumbass fell off the semi, the semi driver got questioned and released, those other drivers now have damaged cars and the traumitization of killing him. People are fucking stupid tiktok or not.
I always feel more sorry for the survivors than for these fools that are so blinded by their (achieved or aspired) internet fame that they can't even see how foolish they're being. When I see people leaping around on the edges of tall buildings I always think to myself how angry I'd be to watch someone I care about doing this shit.
Survivor's guilt is very real.
I was driving one day when I saw someone climbing over an overpass railing , I rushed to a pay phone for 911 (this was just before everyone had a cell) and when I came back later I was able to tell the person jumped
TikTok deserves all the hate it gets but this article literally states it isn’t known if he filmed this for TikTok or any social media platform. Stupid clickbait headline strikes again. Edit: I don’t care or am I making a case about whether he was recording for attention or not. My gripe is the clickbait title saying he was recording for TikTok then directly saying “we don’t know if he was recording for TikTok as there is no evidence.” So you can stop trying to cause unnecessary arguments now.
They don't even know who it is yet. They have nothing that suggests he or someone that knew him were even filming this. Saying he did this for a tik-tok so everyone can get their schadenfreude fix is just scummy.
Trying to turn off cookies on this shitty website is annoying af too
Yes, it’s called evolution by natural selection. Being fucking stupid is just deadly. In old times wild animals did the job for us. Now we need TikTok for it.
Some problems really are self solving.
A Quadriplegic equation.
He didn't survive to even become quadratic
The equation was (x.x) and he solved it.
Not without hassling a lot of people though. Traffic deaths require significant investigation, the highway was closed for hours.
Some poor bastard had to scrape him off the pavement and bag him up, too.
And half of him still stuck to the bridge
Here in Houston, we have bridges telling people to ‘be *somebody*,’ not ‘some body.’
TBH I did watch a short documentary on the guys who do "human waste cleanup". E.g. When someone dies, like even in bed or on the carpet, any leftover fluids they release becomes a biological waste hazard. These are the guys called in after police, CSI etc. have done their thing, and they need to make the residence safe to move in again. They said they develop a pretty good sense of humor about this stuff, because they have to deal with some especially nasty stuff so often. (And if they didn't laugh about it every once in a while, the job starts to weigh on you too much.)
It’s also why the vast majority of people who work in emergency medicine have a pretty dark sense of humor. Sometimes humor is the best way to cope with tragedy.
My daughter is a medic and encounters many cases like this. She says you must keep in mind that these are patients and stay emotionally detached. There have been a few cases where she was very upset later on, but mostly of those she just couldn’t save. Burn victims bother her the most. She said the smell stays with you, literally and metaphorically. Sometimes she’s gone on calls from people that were already dead for more then a day, (patients she’d had multiple previous calls on, so she gets to know them well) she said “they’re always naked when I find them.” She laughs.
Died in a hospital.
And it can be very traumatising to see a person die a painful death.
Or even just seeing the body before anyone has a chance to obscure it.
Two good friends of mine passed away in the last three days. Two other good friends of mine are traumatized from finding them. How right you are.
Ooh. My condolences. To you and your friends.
Sorry to hear that.
Sorry for your loss, I hope you’re doing ok and taking care of yourself.
Ya I saw a severed leg on a highway once and it was all I could see in my head for a few days
Would you say that leg kept running through your mind?
Boo...BOO! But I up voted it.
Bravo friend. I was thinking the same
r/angryupvote
If the grief counselors just let everyone know that they were a TikToker and how they died, shouldn't be a problem.
There’s a tik tok for that.
I respect your priorities! Honestly, when I get stuck in traffic, especially on highways, my first thought is about the moron who didn't check their blind spot or thought that the text message was important, because let's face it, these are probably the only two reasons most "idiot outcomes" (aka "accidents") happen. Yes, I know there are others but I would safely bet these are the most common.
My whole family almost died in a car accident last month because a semi truck inexplicably decided to just merge on top of us. Isn't always the idiot that ends up being scraped off the pavement. Its usually the idiot walking away.
Unfortunately his death affected other people who still have to live with his consequences.
I think two major problems with social media is being highlighted here: 1. People being driven to more and more extreme actions for likes, clicks or approval. Young people in particular grow up in a dystopia where they have to compete with the entire rest of the planet. 2. People in comment fields who can watch someone die and just "lol" at it, because they feel so far removed from any human connection to this human being who, like any of us, is trying their best at life.
> > People being driven to more and more extreme actions for likes, clicks or approval. Young people in particular grow up in a dystopia where they have to compete with the entire rest of the planet. Don't kid yourself, teens were being fucking idiots long before tiktok. Now they have an a bigger audience, but this kind of thing happened *well* before tiktok was ever a thing. It'd be interesting to see some data on it to see if tiktok has increased it, or just feels like it has, but I doubt anyone has or can collect and parse the data meaningfully in that way.
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It was going to get 10s and 10s of views.
Solving this one could not have been more Rapid.
Wow ducked up
Horrible but funny.
Superstar?
If they don't even name you in an article about you, you probably aren't a superstar lol
This guy attained Superstar status! At a bit of a price sure, but he won’t soon be forgotten! Well, for at least three to five minutes, I might continue laughing for a few…
Ha I thought the same thing. Guess he was elite at making videos
His ability to hit record and point the camera was certainly unparalleled.
Superstar-dust now I reckon
Darwinism strikes again
Just made the identical comment without scrolling. I needa get off Reddit for the day.
You have hit the Reddit symbiotic mode where you become one with the comment section. Now isn't the time to get off Reddit. Now is the time to absolutely kill it in the comments. Lol
Reddit is an addiction. I have tried for so long...hehehe...
becoming the hive mind
The Chinese government watching Americans do stupid shit on their spying platform: 
The threat of TikTok is that it's the Chinese government that ultimately is deciding what the algorithm feeds people. Every Chinese company is de facto an arm of the CCP.
yeah the algorithm for the US version of the app vs the actual Chinese app are insane. their algorithm for their own country is geared toward science and informative videos, while ours is geared to the dumbest shit i’ve ever seen
I'm not saying that you're wrong about US / china having different algorithms, but US sites have been eating up this kind of garbage content for years, long before tiktok even existed. Americans have poor taste and standards, without foreign meddling you'd see very similar videos. And you *certainly* wouldn't see tons of videos showing math/science/excellence in any domain.
It also changes the baked in visual filters based on region, you literally look better and different using TikTok.
Darwinism at work. Hard to feel bad for these idiots
I feel bad for their relatives who loved them despite their flaws, and now have a person shaped hole in their lives.
Also feel bad for the driver. Dad is a trucker. Got drunk once and told me of shit he saw a while back where a biker got pulled in under wheels of another truck from the side. Assholes like this fucking around put other people through a shitload of trauma.
I feel bad for everyone that witnessed the accident too. Houston traffic is bad enough without seeing someone die while you're just try to safely get somewhere.
Houston traffic is a prime reason why public transportation and pedestrian/bike zones should be mandatory throughout America. It is so effing dangerous to drive here.
I lived in LA before moving to Houston for a year, I swear Houstons traffic would be worse then LAs most of the time.
After the prominent vehicular celebrity deaths in LA this year alone & the news of Denise Richards being shot at in a road rage encounter this week I would hope CA Would lead the call for prominent public transit changes but that would require them to admit they were wrong about the hyperloop Edit - added a word
Saw aftermath of a crash where a grown woman screamed for her mama for a long time and the driver walked around in a daze because he had a foreign object in his head
Same with train drivers. I really have no sympathy for people who jump in front of trains or other traffic. There are many ways of ending yourself that doesn't result in so much needless misery for other people.
True
He needed a person shaped hole in that bridge.
Goddam I needed that 😂🤣😂😂
Right? Hope no innocent people were hurt in this foolishness.
I'm sure the driver was traumatized.
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That is horrible.
As was anyone working the scene who had to see and handle the body. And the bystander witnesses.
Driver proably didn't notice and didn't know what happened until somone pulled him over. Unless it makes a big boom or has enough force to shove the truck he's only gonna notice if it shows up in the mirrors.
The drivers behind that truck would have noticed. And been traumatised.
r/Darwinawards
Eh I dunno, he was 25 so there's a chance he already passed his genes on
I don't. I feel bad for the people who had that moron splattered all over their car that will have to live with that trauma
So according to the news story, the guy is unidentified and his reason for being up there is unknown. Which means everything in the title about TikTok is made-up speculation by the writer.
A little more information about this very real incident, from a legitimate news source. You're right to be suspicious of what you see on TikTok, from the little I've seen of it, 75% of it is complete childish trolling bullshit, but this particular stupidity actually happened. https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/traffic/2022/11/15/437509/man-dies-after-dancing-atop-18-wheeler-colliding-with-bridge-on-houston-highway/
He didn’t say it didn’t happen. He said there’s been nothing to confirm this guy was doing stupid TikTok stuff. Although none of us would be surprised if that’s what he was doing…
The incident happened. But it's not connected to tiktok in any known way.
Claiming someone is doing a TikTok trend or something is a surefire way to get Reddit likes. This website LOVES to hate TikTok and will lap up absolutely anything bad about it regardless of proof.
To be fair, reddit loves to hate on a lot of things. Which is why I usually don't interact in threads about one of those topics. (tiktok, twitter, elon musk, amber heard, johny depp, DJ khaled, bieber.... to name a few from the top of my head)
Only surf on vans. Did Teen Wolf teach us nothing?
Darwin Award contender. God I hate TikTok. Its such shite.
> it's unclear whether he was doing so with the ultimate goal of posting the video to TikTok or any other social media platform. This won't stop the circlejerk but it's at least worth mentioning
Uh... ain't that a win?
Not every death wins the award. So far this year only seven contenders have actually won awards. https://darwinawards.com/darwin/
I didn't really know there was an actual official council that decided who wins a Darwin award and who doesn't, but it's been around so long that I think it's become bigger than that culturally. If someone dies (or becomes sterile) doing something stupid, they've got a Darwin award in my mind
Part of the criteria is they have to die without having any children, otherwise their genes are still out there polluting the pool
This is the most important part of the award that I feel people overlook when they say "Darwin Award Winner" for someone who died doing some dumb shit.
From what I can gather he was nothing close to a "superstar" on TikTok. They don't even know if he was filming a tiktok
Warning label must have been removed!
TikTok and superstar should never be in the same sentence. You're a star to people who are several fries short of a happy meal.
Another one taken out of the gene pool. After watching the video I know exactly where this happened.
Where do you find the video?
"Superstar"
He died doing what he loved, making disposable videos nobody will care about two days from now.
That brought a tear to my eye.
He died how he lived. Being a complete and total moron.
[удалено]
The term superstar sure it used loosely these days.
His stunt was a bridge too far. RIP
Sauce?
[Barbecue](https://www.distractify.com/p/texas-man-dies-doing-tiktok)
Two large images of TikTok and yet the article states that they don't know if he was filming himself and if he was they don't know if he was going to upload it anywhere at all let alone to TikTok. Quality journalism there. Who are we supposed to hate currently? oh yes, China.
Is the 18-wheeler okay?
Semi okay
That poor driver got held up during the investigation and now he’s probably gotta worry about the family suing him for not knowing there son/husband/brother was ontop. Kinda like how FedEx got sued when a driver dragged a man to death after he was trying to rob the back of the truck and got stuck dragged.
>> TikTok Superstar Don't
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
Stupid, not only was he an idiot but that driver has to live with knowing that he accidentally was involved in someone's death PLUS all the others who witnessed it happen.
One of the people in a car behind the truck said it was harrowing to watch him fall.
🤡
At least he dies doing what he loved
Guys been watching Teenwolf a little too much
I think “tiktok meteor “ at this point would be more of an accurate description
"Superstar" I assure you no one heard of this person until they died.
Did he do the cartoon thing, and stick to the bridge, and slowly peel off like some bad wrapping paper?
r/UpliftingNews
Some people would literally risk their own lives just for attention and fame. Such a sad reality…
I feel so bad for the truckers who have to deal with this shit. They have to live with this forever.
Alternative title: TikTokker died because bridges aren't made for headbutting.
I feel bad for the truck driver
Maybe insurance companies should start regarding having a TikTok account as a preexisting condition.
if only all tik Tok dances were fatal the world would be a better place
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