A ‘DEVIOUS’ DEMAND

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) sent a letter to TikTok Tuesday demanding the platform do more to discourage the “devious lick” trend where students remove things from schools and other buildings.

“You have a responsibility to delete videos, ban users, and restrict hashtags that glorify property damage and threats to school safety to prevent this destructive behavior from spreading,” Blumenthal wrote to TikTok chief executive Shou Zi Chew.

“While TikTok has taken steps to remove these videos, these actions were too little, too late and do not make up for the damage to schools across the country,” the Connecticut lawmaker wrote.

The trend rose in popularity this month, with users one-upping each other by removing items as small as notebooks to whole sets of lockers.