TikTok users in Los Angeles are going viral for a bizarre new trend where they run into Scientology buildings to see how far they can get before being stopped and thrown out.
The clips, often filmed in Hollywood, show creators rushing through the front doors, sprinting down hallways, and sometimes even using skateboards to push deeper into the building. The goal is simple: make it as far inside as possible.
The challenge has quickly been dubbed the “Scientology run,” with users trying to one-up each other after one viral clip claimed to show the “deepest recorded run.”
Am I a Boomer if I remember the ‘TikTok trend’ of vandalizing school bathrooms?
Stupid trends are stupid trends. Kids don’t need tik tok to do them, it may spread then faster, but the internet let that cat out of the bag. If it wasn’t tik tok spreading them something else would.
To some degree, yes.
But also to some degree, no. TikTok specifically has an algorithm that seems tailored to push these ‘trends’ and push them hard. And it also very much rewards bandwagoning onto a growing trend … which provides quite a bit of motivation for impressionable kids, offering them attention in return for doing whatever crazy trend is being pushed this week.