Remember that TikTok trend where people would crack eggs on the foreheads of their unsuspecting friends and family members, and then post their shocked reactions online? It got even wilder when people did it to kids.
Well, here’s some “vengeance.” A mother in Sweden was convicted of harassment, and was ordered to pay her daughter $2,000 in damages for posting a video of herself cracking an egg on the girl’s head.
The girl is young, and she wasn’t the one who made the complaint. Someone else did, and a prosecutor picked it up and ran with it and argued to a judge that this wasn’t fun, that it was CRUEL.
She said, “You simply don’t do that to a child. To record and humiliate the child and then broadcast it to thousands of viewers, I find that incredibly degrading. [It’s] a reckless act.” And the judge agreed.
The mother insists that it was just a harmless prank.
On one hand, even if the egg-cracking looks and sounds violent, it’s probably harmless. That said, there are a LOT of people USING their kids for social media “content,” and many of them are too young to consent or understand the ramifications of potentially going viral online.
This upcoming generation will have to deal with being in high school, college, and in the professional world, with embarrassing videos of them endlessly circulating online.
