![]() In it, Dennis also says the unsubstantiated boat jumping challenge is “just like with TikTok issuing the Tide Pod challenge.” The Tide Pod challenge, which data revealed wasn’t a public health crisis, according to statistics from the American Association of Poison Control Centers, is credited as having started from a 2015 Onion headline and started to pick up steam on YouTube to become a meme in 2017. “As far as TikTok, there’s not a challenge on there that’s any good.”ĭennis’s full interview has been uploaded in its entirety to YouTube. “There is a TikTok challenge, but I do know jumping off of a moving boat is nothing new,” he said. On the same day as the ALEA’s tweets, Dennis told another local news outlet in Alabama that his original comments were “blown way out of proportion.” But he reiterated that he thought there was a TikTok challenge, but he couldn’t prove it caused some of the drownings. On July 10, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) tweeted that the information was “incorrect.” It clarified in a follow-up tweet that the ALEA’s Marine Patrol Division did not have any records of boating or marine-related fatalities in Alabama “that can be directly linked to TikTok or a trend on TikTok.” ![]() People magazine, on July 11, left an editor’s note on its coverage of the “trend,” reading, “This story has been updated to reflect a substantive update made by authorities after publication.” Two days later, Today ran a segment about it that has since been taken down. ABC7 published the headline “ Trending TikTok boat jumping challenge kills at least 4 in Alabama” on July 8. Other publications took the quote and ran with it. Doing this can result in paralysis or death. The “challenge,” according to Dennis, involved people jumping off moving boats at high speeds. Jim Dennis with the Childersburg Rescue Squad told outlets: “We have had four drownings that were easily avoidable. Prior to the holiday weekend on July 3, local news outlets in Alabama were reporting that “a deadly trend” was “killing people of all ages.” Cap. ![]()
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