TikTok is in news and yes again for not for some good reason. Recently it was at the center of communal hatred that was spread through the platform after the ‘ Tablighi Jamaat’ exposure. However, this time it’s behind the death of a teenager.
An 18-year-old man allegedly took his own life for not getting enough likes on his ‘TikTok‘ videos. The incident has come to light from Uttar Pradesh’s Noida aka Gautam Buddh Nagar. The teenager was living with his father. Both the father and son are working in a private firm said the police.
Due to the ongoing lockdown, the youth was mostly at home and was making videos and sharing them across the popular social media platform, TikTok. ” It seems that for the past few days, he had been troubled that there weren’t enough likes on his videos. He had even shared this with his father “, said station house officer(SHO), sector 39 Noida police station Shailesh Tomar.
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The incident was reported on Thursday. Police said that few neighbors confirmed that the youth had been upset for the past few days and was staying up at night to make videos. The police had to break the door of the house to recover his body. The father and son originally hail from the Malda district in Nadia in West Bengal.
