Parents Have Not Been Warned About A New TikTok Trend Known As 'Hellmaxxing'

The teens have certainly been up to their fair share of juvenile shenanigans on the ol' clock app recently, as trends where they record themselves committing blatant petty theft and vandalizing their neighbors' properties with beans have recently gone viral and brought the consternation of parents and politicians down upon TikTok. While these are just two among dozens of moral panics related to TikTok we've seen in the site's lifetime, you can rest assured knowing that there's no emerging trend known as "hellmaxxing," despite what Twitter may have told you.

Yesterday, Twitter user @wormwood_stars tweeted a supposed screenshot from Yahoo showing a story in which parents show concern over the growing trend of "hellmaxxing," an alarming trend in which teens allegedly "commit so many sins the devil won't have them."

well i never pic.twitter.com/hlFuVbWeHn

— venus wormwood (@wormwood_stars) October 18, 2021

Rest assured, a simple Google search will show that no such story exists (though it will take you to forum posts about incelmaxing). It's a bit. However, the satirical take on the countless number of "Parents concerned over [x tiktok trend]" articles was spot-on enough that many users commented upon it as if it were real, only to get disheartened when they couldn't find out more about this hot new hellmaxxing craze.

HAHAHAHAHAH WHAT THE HELL? HAHAHAHAHAHA WAIT IS THIS REAL? AM I ON THE WRONG SIDE OF TIK TOK??? HAHAHAHAHAHGAHAHAHA THISBSI SO FYNNY TO ME. A BUNCH OF KIDS RUNNING AROUND COMMITTING THE 7 DEADLY SINS https://t.co/OQAnCgq9eP

— 111 (@uhlaynuh06) October 18, 2021

are we sure this article isn't itself a joke because "parents and small business owners" is from the antifa supersoldier tweet pic.twitter.com/kta49qlP0b

— hetless horseman (@dealtxvi) October 19, 2021

A historian friend of mine explained to me one time that a big part of his job was to like figure out which things in history happened and which ones were like made up panics that 1800s newspapers just went on about for weeks with no basis in reality https://t.co/6bIQMnQEw7

— john stuart thrills and chills 👻 (@js_thrill) October 18, 2021

Others were very excited to try out hellmaxxing for themselves.

Hellmaxxing by walking past all the houses in my neighborhood while muttering, "the wife in there, awooga" https://t.co/fuNarsxb2H

— literary agent needing jerk (@rajandelman) October 18, 2021

doing some light hellmaxxing before bed

— 𝚞𝚗𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚢𝚛𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛 (@rellortnocon) October 19, 2021

Let's be honest: hellmaxxing sounds insanely fun and basically what we built Vegas for. https://t.co/nBhQcXYbgg

— Johnny Normality (Even More Still Spooky Mode) (@Probgoblin) October 19, 2021

If you want to try hellmaxxing, there's nothing stopping you. Except for numerous laws, but other than that…