Don't Get Caught Pooping At School

About

Don't Get Caught Pooping At School or School Bathroom Stall Pranks refers to a trend on TikTok where students go into the school bathroom and seek out someone in a stall by looking for their dangling feet, then verbally or physically annoying them in an attempt to bait a reaction, sometimes stealing their shoes off their feet. Some of these videos are staged as comedy skits. The videos first became popular on TikTok around September 2021, but school bathroom stall pranks have been popular throughout the 2010s.

Origin

One of the most prominent bathroom stall prank accounts is TikTok^[1] and Instagram^[2] user Stall Bro, who waits inside bathroom stalls, usually at his college, and pranks people in the stall next to him, or messes with people from the outside of the stall. Stall Bro began posting on Instagram in September 2020 (example shown below).

On November 11th, 2019, YouTuber^[7] RamelWithaR posted a video pranking people in the high school bathrooms by playing footsies with them, gaining over 1.7 million views in roughly two years (shown below). The video begins with the YouTuber listing three unwritten high school rules, the third being "do not take a number 2 in the school bathroom."

In September 2021, as students returned to school, TikTokers began posting videos pranking or harassing other students in the bathroom stalls. On September 7th, TikToker^[3] @yandi1k posted a video approaching someone in a stall and saying it "smells good in here" and asking them what they're doing in a strange voice, with the on-screen caption "rule number one don't get caught using the school bathroom," gaining over 2.8 million views in two weeks (shown below).

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On September 16th, TikToker^[4] @yandi1k posted another bathroom stall prank, knocking on the stall door and asking to come in followed by the person in the stall lifting their feet, gaining over 10 million views in six days (shown below).

On September 17th, TikToker^[5] @rycree posted a bathroom stall prank video with the caption "don't get caught pooping in school," gaining over 11 million views in five days (shown below, left). On September 18th, TikToker^[6] @papakac posted a video using the same gravelly voice as @yandi1k and stealing a shoe off someone in a stall's foot, gaining over 880,000 views in four days (shown below, right).

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