Tiktok is one of the most popular social media platforms right now. A lot of kids and adults use that app. TikTok says 1 billion people use the app each month.

And one of the things that stands out about it is that there are new trends and challenges almost every day, like dances, food making, arts and crafts, and singing challenges. 

But the one challenge that has been occurring a lot lately is the “Devious Lick Challenge.” It’s when kids damage or steal school property like lockers, water fountains, toilets (I don't even know how people manage to steal that!), etc. 

While some people see it as a bit funny,  it's also pretty serious. Imagine if someone needs to go to the bathroom really badly only to find out that the toilet is missing. 

The school already paid a lot of money for lockers, toilets, sinks, etc., as well as having to spend for things such as school supplies and books, so they can't use it all on repairing sinks.

Students in some schools have gotten so out of hand that they minimized the time allowed in the bathroom to seven minutes, which is still a lot of time to use the bathroom, but not enough to rip a  toilet off the ground. 

As for the lockers, well, what's the point of an actual lock if you can just rip the door off? That would be even worse if it was someone else's, and not yours .

From a headline off of Google News: “Devious Liks TikTok challenge: 6 arrested, 2 more caught, thousands of dollars worth of damage to Marion County schools”.

Headlines like this show that the “Devious Licks” challenge is definitely getting out of hand. And it's definitely getting more serious if people are getting arrested for it.