Choking game - An internet challenge of intentionally cutting off oxygen to the brain to gain temporary loss of consciousness and euphoria. The challenge resulted in the deaths of 82 youths.
See also: Blackout challenge
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This was a thing when I was in elementary school which would have been the very early 90s. This creepy redneck kid told me about and said it was "like a magic trick". When I asked how it worked he pushed me against a wall and started strangling me, until I punched him in the eye lol
That predates the internet by a fair margin.
It was one of the early internet challenges. It was just renamed and popularized again in 2021.
I remember this becoming a thing at my jr high school in the late 80's in rural NV, well before there was any internet access in the town at all... this is nothing new.
Isn't this just auto-erotic asphyxiation... but done by kids?
Also, I'm glad I don't TikTok. I'm insulated from this stupidity, lol.
In the linked article, they say that this is distinct from erotic asphyxiation:
Claimed the life of X JAPAN's singer back in the 80/90s
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