Pros and Cons of Tiktok challenges

by: Samuel David T. Bacatan

Different applications that we can all access today, but there Is this one app that I know most of the
Gen Z commonly use. One of the most commonly opened apps today, Tiktok, with over 1.9 billion
users globally it is one of the most used apps in our generation today that even young children use this.
Tiktok is an app wherein people can record dances, gameplay, short blogs and many more video related
content. But sometimes Tiktok is a place where bad things can happen and these usually occur in
challenges.

Tiktok challenges are made by content creators for different users to engage in following dance moves,
lip syncing, face filters, food challenges and many more, and then posting it on the app with a hashtag
to make their content more visible resulting for them to have more followers. But sometimes some
challenges can lead to very dangerous or traumatic causes, an example of this is “THE ONE CHIP
CHALLENGE” this is a challenge wherein people would eat the “Spicy Paqui Carolina Reaper chip”
whilst avoiding to drink anything for minutes, and this at first doesn’t sound so harmful at all but spicy
foods contain Capsaicin which can be highly irritating especially if you aren’t used to eating them, this
caused people engaging in the challenge to vomit, feel throat and mouth pain, significant nausea and
even death. There are many more dangerous challenges out there that we all must be careful of, but
why should we just look on the bad side of these challenges? I think we should also look on the good
side of these. Sometimes Tiktok challenges are a way to help people get connected together or get
together with their friends, family members or relatives to engage on these, It also is a way for people
to learn new things like new dance moves, new knowledge and they also can enhance their skills on the
app by these challenges.

In summary Tiktok challenges has a negative side and a positive side, The negative side being the
challenges being dangerous and harmful to people who engage on them or possibly users being so
engaged to them that they can’t focus on their education or jobs. On the other hand though the positive
side is that people can get connected to each other from different places in the world and they can learn
new things or enhance their skills on engaging on these challenges. There are a lot of challenges out
there in Tiktok that we can do we just have to be careful and think before even engaging on them so
that we can avoid the harmful side of it.