If you have a teen and a teen that may be on TikTok listen up!
There is a new TikTok challenge of sorts going around over there where teens are dressing up as grandmas wearing face masks in order to purchase alcohol without an ID.
Yup, it’s latest teen trend we have to worry about as parents!
According to several reports, kids are posting videos of themselves scoring alcohol after disguising themselves as “grandmas” and wearing a face mask to disguise their actual face.
Teens are wearing glasses, head scarves, and baggy sweaters to pass as being a grandma and unfortunately, many have been successful in obtaining alcohol.
While teens are certainly posting this on TikTok, many videos have either been taken down or have been made private but it is currently something we should be worried about.
Sure, some might argue that it is funny and genius but it still doesn’t change the fact kids are underage drinking. Besides if they really wanted to be “smart” and get away with it, they shouldn’t be posting this on social media DUH!
In one video, posted by the user claare__18, a group of girls are seen dancing and dressing up their friend in a rubber mask, wig, and glasses, and they head to a 7-Eleven. She’s then filmed waddling in a convincing old-woman style with a full bag of booze back to the car.
Yikes!
The video has since been deleted on TikTok but someone posted it over on YouTube (you can watch it below).
According to TikTok’s community guidelines, content will be removed “that offers the purchase, sale, or trade of unlawfully acquired goods.”
I get that Teens are bored right now but as parents we have to make sure they aren’t out doing stupid and illegal things like this especially right now.
The best thing we can do is, talk to our kids and make sure they aren’t doing dumb things like this.
