Tag: tiktok

  • Feroze Khan says TikTok is ‘cancer’

    Actor Feroze Khan took to Twitter to lash out at popular social media app TikTok. The actor posted the screenshot of the two controversial TikTok videos and wrote, “Tik Tok is cancer. I repeat, cancer !”

    Khan talked about the video that was recorded at Quaid e Azam mausoleum that shows a girl in Hijab dancing in front of the mausoleum. Khan also referenced another TikTok video that was recorded at a graveyard.

     Fans of the actor agreed with him on Twitter.

    https://twitter.com/imkakarotto119/status/1232693623080267779?s=20

    The Mazar-e-Quaid’s administration on Tuesday decided to approach the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for the removal of the viral video.

    Many people had protested after watching the TikTok video of the girl dressed in white clothes dancing in the vicinity of the shrine. They said that the incident has tarnished the sanctity of the historic place.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/B8_ffoQHV0Z/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
  • TikTokers arrested for recording videos at Mazar-e-Quaid

    TikTokers arrested for recording videos at Mazar-e-Quaid

    Police have arrested TikTok stars who made a video at Mazar-e-Quaid. The video shows a girl dancing on a song at a mausoleum.

    After the video was posted on social media, administrative authorities reached out to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to take action.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/B8_ffoQHV0Z/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

    The Mazar-e-Quaid authorities also asked FIA to remove the video from all social media platforms, following immense outrage on social media.

    Meanwhile, the episode sparked debate on social media. People argued that though dancing at the mausoleum was immoral, what rule did the girl break and why was she arrested.

  • TikTok’s life-threatening ‘skull-breaker challenge’ is trending

    TikTok’s life-threatening ‘skull-breaker challenge’ is trending

    To go viral and gain views, TikTok users have started the ‘Skull-Breaker Challenge’ causing people to end up in the hospital with broken bones and fatal injuries.

    The challenge begins with three people standing alongside one another and in a row, the middle person jumps while the other two kick his/her legs out from under causing a dangerous fall.

    https://twitter.com/britishchickAD/status/1228335700132712450?s=20

    Falling like this is life-threatening and can cause paralysis and even death as severe head trauma could lead to serious internal bleeding in the brain.

    Meanwhile, TikTok does not allow content that is harmful. The community guidelines for the app state: “We do not promote participation in activities that could lead to harm. We also do not permit users to encourage others to take part in dangerous activities. We do not allow content that promotes self-harm or suicide, but we do allow our users to share their experiences in order to raise awareness about these issues.”

    However, TikTok has not officially responded to this matter.

  • Boy falls off moving train while recording TikTok video

    Boy falls off moving train while recording TikTok video

    TikTok nearly took another life as a young boy in India was lucky enough to escape from being crushed under a moving train.

    The boy was recording a Tik Tok video while jumping off a moving train but lost his balance. He luckily survived the fall from the train and moved away from the tracks.

    After the incident, Indian Railways took to Twitter to issue an advisory against boarding and deboarding a moving train. It read that the boy was lucky enough to survive the fall this time but may not be lucky for a second time around.

    The tweet asked people to avoid such stunts and also stop others from making such videos. They asserted that life is invaluable and should not be endangered for a stunt or a video.

    TikTok is a video-sharing social networking application that is used to create short lip-sync, comedy, and talent videos.

    This is not the first time that youngsters have risked their lives to make TikTok videos to get high views and likes.

    Earlier in January, a teenage boy had lost his life after a revolver accidentally went off while he was shooting a TikTok video in India’s Uttar Pradesh village.

    TikTok has over 500 million active users worldwide. The app had already crossed 1 billion downloads last year.

  • Teacher, student suspended from college over TikTok video get married

    Teacher, student suspended from college over TikTok video get married

    A teacher and his young student expelled from a college for allegedly posting an indecent video clip of themselves on TikTok have contracted court marriage, earlier this week.

    According to reports, Rafaqat Hussain, a 38-year-old English teacher at the Government Postgraduate College Haripur and his 24-year-old student Zainab Ali tied the knot at a local court in Abbottabad. Zainab’s mother and Rafaqat’s cousins and friends were present in the courtroom.

    Speaking about the marriage, the groom expressed that he was very happy adding, “We were in a relationship and were waiting for our families’ permission to get married.”

    Rafaqat is already married and has three children with his first wife.

    According to the couple, the 20-second clip that shows Rafaqat and Zainab together at a local fish-point was shared on the popular video-sharing social networking application TikTok by someone with ill-intent.

    “Today, it has been established that we were in a serious relationship,” said the professor.

    Rafaqat said the clip wasn’t meant to be shared on TikTok, but someone hacked into Zainab’s cellphone, stole the clip and shared it on social networking platforms. The college suspended Rafaqat and Zainab after the clip went viral for violating the college discipline, Principal Dr Muhammad Ishfaq said.

  • Boy sets himself on fire after father bars him from using TikTok

    Boy sets himself on fire after father bars him from using TikTok

    A teenage boy set himself on fire after his father advised and stopped him making TikTok videos. 

    As per reports, the boy from Arifwala near Pakpattan tried to commit suicide by setting himself on fire after his father constantly stopped him from recording Tiktok videos. The boy was shifted to a nearby hospital in critical condition.

    TikTok is a video-sharing social networking application that is used to create short lip-sync, comedy, and talent videos.

    Last year in December, the teenager was accidentally shot dead while recording a video with his friends in Sialkot’s Kharota Syedan area.

    The 16-year-old boy, identified as Ammar Haider was using a pistol to record a TikTok video with his two other friends. Allegedly, the trigger of the pistol was accidentally pressed and the bullet hit Ammar’s stomach, which caused his death.

    TikTok has over 500 million active users worldwide. The app had already crossed 1 billion downloads last year.

  • TikTok beats Facebook to become second most-downloaded app in world

    TikTok beats Facebook to become second most-downloaded app in world

    TikTok, a video-sharing social networking app, has beaten Facebook to become the second most downloaded app in the world in 2019. The platform owned by China-based ByteDance came second to Whatsapp in terms of downloads.

    As per market analyst Sensor Tower’s ranking, both TikTok and its Chinese counterpart Douyin amassed a total of 740 million downloads in 2019. The reports consist of worldwide downloads for Google Play Store, iPhone and iPad. They, however, did not include data from Apple apps, pre-installed Google apps and Android downloads from third-party stores based in China.

    The company is making efforts to monetize the app, it had a successful year in terms of revenue grossing over $176.9 million in 2019.

  • Inquiry against Sandal Khattak initiated after Mubasher Luqman’s complaint : FIA

    Inquiry against Sandal Khattak initiated after Mubasher Luqman’s complaint : FIA

    TikTok celebrity Sandal Khattak, who is often seen in videos and pictures with viral TikToker Hareem Shah, is angry at the Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) for their investigation against her.

    Sandal approached a Lahore sessions court, demanding that the FIA should stop ‘harassing’ her and that she had not been informed why she was being investigated.

    The FIA, in a written response to the court, said that they launched their investigation against Sandal after anchorperson Mubasher Lucman filed a formal complaint against her with the FIA’s cybercrime wing. In the complaint, Mubasher claims that Sandal is posting ‘fake and fabricated’ videos against him on social media.

    The FIA also denied that they were ‘harassing’ the TikTok star and said that they were just doing their job by summoning her.

    Sandal has petitioned for all documents in the investigation against her to be brought to court.

    Previously, Mubasher Lucman had filed an FIR against Sandal and Hareem Shah, alleging theft when they recorded videos in his private plane.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xMMTM9SpbQ

    The two TikTokers said that the theft claims were false and that Mubasher was against them because they had ‘exposed’ his private plane.

  • PTA files written request with TikTok to remove Hareem Shah’s videos

    PTA files written request with TikTok to remove Hareem Shah’s videos

    Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), in a written complaint, has requested TikTok to remove Hareem Shah and Sundal Khattak’s videos from the app.

    According to reports, the government has requested TikTok to remove videos posted by Shah and Khattak after they received complaints regarding their videos. A PTA spokesperson shared that they have written to TikTok to remove videos posted by the two women, though he denied receiving a request to suspend or delete Shah and Khattak’s accounts.

    The spokesperson explained that PTA wants TikTok to “defuse” the videos.

    Shah and Khattak became popular after they shared videos of themselves with high-profile people, including ministers and politicians, on the app. Those videos were widely shared on other social media apps as well. However, the two were thrust into the public eye after Shah shared a video of herself walking around a conference room at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA). The video sparked a controversy prompting the government to order an inquiry into the matter.

    Read more – Everything you need to know about Tiktok star Hareem Shah

    Other videos of Hareem — featuring Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed and Punjab Information Minister Fayazul Hasan Chohan — had also gone viral on the internet with the claim that Rasheed had “also sent Hareem inappropriate videos”.

    “What about all those naked videos you used to send me have you forgotten about them?” Hareem can be heard as saying to the federal minister in one of the videos of their telephonic conversation, following which Rasheed abruptly disconnected the call.

    While the videos were removed by Hareem, it wasn’t later that they went viral over the internet, drawing mixed reactions. Amid all the criticism facing the internet star, Hareem on December 31 was reported to have left the country and applied for Canadian citizenship.

  • An old music video by Hareem Shah resurfaces

    An old music video by Hareem Shah resurfaces

    Pakistani TikTok sensation Hareem Shah has stolen the spotlight once again. She dropped a music video titled ‘Nakhray Baaz’ on twitter. 

    Hareem, originally named Fiza Hussain, was seen in the video singing and posing alongside Sandal Khattak and rapper Aash Chughtai.

    Almost every video of the TikTok star goes viral but she got famous when one of her videos started doing the rounds on the internet where she could be seen roaming around the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

    Her father had earlier also issued a video statement expressing his displeasure and saying: “May Allah accept my sacrifice and forgive my mistakes.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU9QQPLa0h4