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GARCIA-NAVARRO: Especially when adults are talking about it on NPR.Ĭopyright © 2021 NPR. NESI: These trends do tend to be short-lived. Finally, Jacqueline Nesi says, keep this in mind. What is very real is the thousands of dollars guilty students would be responsible for and a potential felony charge. Meanwhile, school administrators are reminding students that TikTok is not real life. Now TikTok has taken down any videos tagged with the phrase devious licks, though enterprising users are trying to get around that by using creative spelling. There's a large audience and an easy way to quantify approval, with more likes, more shares, more views. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Nesi says all of those incentives are really amplified on TikTok. And that's a really powerful incentive for teens. I think the goal is really to have the what seems like approval of your peers online. JACQUELINE NESI: The goal is not to have the thing that you've stolen from the school. And she studies the effects of social media on teens' mental health. Jacqueline Nesi is a professor at Brown University. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Of course, it's never really just about the urinal. Like, that's another thing that confuses me. Like, I would like to know what a student wanted with, you know, a well-used public urinal. She says a urinal was taken from her school.ĭIANA LOPEZ MARTINEZ: Taking the whole urinal from the wall and, you know, taking it home or taking it whatever - like, I really don't know what happened to it. Officials in California's Lucia Mar Unified School District say they've had about $7,000 worth of damage from the devious licks trend.ĭiana Lopez Martinez works with students at a school in Austin, Texas. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Silly and costly as the students try to one up each other with more extreme thefts. Like, I don't see a need to take home a soap dispenser. And nope, she's not impressed.ĪSHWINA BANGARI: If I'm being honest, I think it's really silly. Ashwina Bangari says, yep, it's happening at her high school outside of Boston. GARCIA-NAVARRO: This music from rapper Lil B is like a siren song, playing on videos where students unzip backpacks to show off their devious licks. LIL B: Ay, man, you already know who it is. The kids have rebranded old-fashioned theft and vandalism and given it a soundtrack. I said, what do you mean, devious - devious what? He says a lick is like a theft. Oh, I had to have him repeat it three times.
It's part of the latest TikTok trend known as devious licks.ĬURTICE: Devious licks. GARCIA-NAVARRO: And the reason for this - well, destruction in the bathrooms in middle and high schools nationwide - soap dispensers stolen, mirrors broken, sinks ripped off of walls.
The only open one was at the nurse's office, which meant a long line of very uncomfortable students.ĬURTICE: That really makes me mad. GARCIA-NAVARRO: The boy's bathrooms, he told her, were closed. And I was like, what do you mean you need a bathroom? He's like, there's no bathrooms at school today. And I said, OK, we're going to go home, right? Or do you want to get something to eat? He says, I need to go home. LINDA CURTICE: He jumped into the back seat with his girlfriend. Linda Curtice of Tempe, Ariz., first heard about it last week when she picked up her teenager from school. But lately, it's their bladders that are being tested.
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However, it has become a serious political debate since some experts and civil rights campaigners believe that the battle to outlaw TikTok runs the risk of placing excessive restrictions on free expression and private enterprise, emulating the kind of censorship that several Western nations have criticized China for.Students are used to taking tests. Government officials in the U.S.A are also paying closer attention to TikTok, a company with more than 100 million monthly active users in the U.S., because of concern that user data may end up in the hands of the Chinese government, which might then use the app as a weapon to spread misinformation. Schools Close Bathrooms Due To Vandalization From TikTok 'Devious Licks' Trend As if schools across the country didn't have enough to worry about: some middle and high school students are. Although popular among young people, the app has also come under fire for potential privacy abuses and ties to the Chinese government. TikTok was prohibited in Canada on mobile devices provided by the government, after a similar prohibition in the European Union. Recently, the opposition to TikTok, which is controlled by China, has grown in the United States and other Western nations. Tick Tock has mastered the art of casual dining, providing customers with high quality ingredients, generous portions at a reasonable price and a comfortable.
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