TikTok Parents Police Prank

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TikTok Parents Police Prank refers to a series of TikTok prank videos in which participants convince their parents that they are being followed home by the police home because they lied that they were speeding home to check on their parent that fell. The prank videos, which began in late July 2020, typically feature a parent pretending to have fallen in the end to help their child get out of a ticket. The videos were also widely shared on Twitter.

Origin

On July 18th, 2020, TikToker Jaden Green uploaded the first parent police prank video in which she convinces her mom to pretend to have fallen (shown below). The video garnered over 2.6 million views in five days.

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On July 19th, 2020, Twitter user @KavonR5^[3] shared Jaden Green's TikTok saying, "i will be screaming for 40 days and 40 nights bc of this video" and received over 469,000 likes in four days. Twitter user @Lexie_Gruber^[4] responded to the video saying, "This really isn’t the time. Police are killing Black folks with impunity. That mother thought her baby was being followed by the police, and did what she could to protect her. She look terrified on the ground…how is that funny? Smh" (shown below, left). The response accumulated over 580 likes in four days. Twitter user @_keetikat^[5] also responded with a screenshot of the mother's reaction captioned, “Why the fuck did I have these kids” (shown below, right). The tweet gained over 27,300 likes and 1,300 retweets in four days.

On July 20th, TikToker kenzielynnsmith uploaded a video in which they perform the same prank on their dad (shown below, left). The video garnered over 1.6 million likes in four days. The next day, TikToker keemokazi uploaded another example of the prank and received over 694,700 likes in three days (shown below, center). On July 22nd, TikToker kendal_rich uploaded a popular video of herself participating in the prank and accumulated over 456,500 likes in two days (shown below, right). StayHipp^[1] and The Daily Dot^[2] published articles on the prank videos.

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