Skull Breaker Challenge – A trend that isn’t a trend at all

The so-called “Skull Breaker Challenge” is said to be widespread among young people.

In this Skull Breaker Challenge, two classmates kick the feet of a third student while jumping, causing him to fall hard on his back and head.
However, this is not a trend as it seems; there are very few videos about it, but many warnings about it.

There were harmless challenges like the “ Ice Bucket Challenge ”, more dangerous ones like the “ Bird Box Challenge ” and completely idiotic ones like the “ Halal Challenge ”. And then there are challenges that aren't actually challenges at all, which can be easily recognized by the fact that there are more warnings about them than actual cases.

A current example of this is the alleged “Skull Breaker Challenge” from 2020. From the name, you would think that you would be asked to break your skull, but in this case it is different: someone else gets involved Danger of life-threatening injury or death.

Note:
YES, there are videos like this.
YES, imitating something like that is extremely stupid.
However, one should not generalize:
NO, there is no comprehensive challenge.
The vast majority of (young) people are fully aware that this is nonsense. NO, it's not a trend, it's huge stupidity to imitate these videos.

What exactly is that supposed to be?

Three people stand next to each other. The two people on the outside jump up once, then the person in the middle should jump. However, the two people on the left and right then kick the person in the middle's feet forward as they jump, so that the person in the middle falls hard on their back and probably also on their head. Totally funny, this “Skull Breaker Challenge,” isn’t it?

Where does the alleged trend come from?

A video was originally distributed on TikTok in early February in which the action described above was carried out. Spanish is spoken in the video and the place of origin is probably South America.

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The video went viral and was re-uploaded by many social media accounts after it was removed from TikTok. But since a video like this isn't exciting enough on its own, the hashtag #skullbreakerchallenge was created. Apparently there were actually some people who felt called upon to imitate this and film it.

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6 videos, countless warnings

As of this writing, we've counted six different videos, none of them less than a week old. But there are countless tweets and posts that post the same six videos over and over again and warn about this Skuell Breaker Challenge .

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that there will be a few more videos, but the majority of users will probably come to their senses once they see the video in which a man apparently hit the back of the head very hard and lost consciousness .

TikTok removes such videos

Gulf News site received the following statement from a representative of the video platform TikTok:

“The safety and well-being of our users is TikTok’s top priority. As we make clear in our Community Guidelines, we do not allow content that encourages, promotes, or glorifies dangerous challenges that could result in injury. We will remove such reported content.”

Conclusion

You don't have to be a medical expert to say that this Skull Breaker Challenge can be not only painful, but extremely dangerous. From an injured spine, a broken neck to a fractured skull base, anything is possible; even with the greatest effort, a funny factor cannot really be recognized.

However, there can be no question of a trend or even a “hype”. There are a lot more warnings than actual videos about it.

Luckily, it must be emphasized, because apparently not everyone can be challenged to do something stupid just because a video has a hashtag with the word “challenge” on it!

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