People being seriously hurt or even dying while trying to make viral videos is, sadly, nothing new. Some TikTokers seize fame through extreme stunts involving tall buildings, only to plunge to their doom, like Xiao Qiumei in 2021, who fell roughly 160 feet to her death while attempting to film a video on a tower crane.
Others just take things too far. Take Pedro Ruiz in 2017, who convinced his girlfriend to shoot a bullet into a book he was holding against his chest, believing the book would protect him. It didn’t. He died.
