Students are jamming objects inside Chromebook ports to cause them to smoke or catch fire, prompting TikTok to block searches for the challenge and remind kids not to be stupid.
A new TikTok “challenge” is encouraging kids to jam objects into the ports of their school-issued Google Chromebooks in an effort to generate sparks, smoke, or even fire.
Law enforcement and school districts across the country are warning about the TikTok challenge, saying it risks posing a major fire hazard. In Arizona, students at Bullhead City Middle School “were briefly evacuated Thursday after a Chromebook laptop computer began emitting smoke in a classroom, burning internally,” the district said in a Facebook post.
