TikTok users in Los Angeles are going viral for a bizarre new trend where they run into Scientology buildings to see how far they can get before being stopped and thrown out.
The clips, often filmed in Hollywood, show creators rushing through the front doors, sprinting down hallways, and sometimes even using skateboards to push deeper into the building. The goal is simple: make it as far inside as possible.
The challenge has quickly been dubbed the “Scientology run,” with users trying to one-up each other after one viral clip claimed to show the “deepest recorded run.”
The kids are alright
They’re freaky buildings with blocked windows and rooms within rooms. Bringingattention to it seems like a good thing.
It was a good idea when I was in college and participated in the protests around that in the mid/late naughties; it’s still a good idea.
TikTok trend-chasers versus Scientologists?
OK boomer.
Am I a Boomer if I remember the ‘TikTok trend’ of vandalizing school bathrooms?
Stupid trends are stupid trends. Kids don’t need tik tok to do them, it may spread then faster, but the internet let that cat out of the bag. If it wasn’t tik tok spreading them something else would.
To some degree, yes.
But also to some degree, no. TikTok specifically has an algorithm that seems tailored to push these ‘trends’ and push them hard. And it also very much rewards bandwagoning onto a growing trend … which provides quite a bit of motivation for impressionable kids, offering them attention in return for doing whatever crazy trend is being pushed this week.
To some degree, yes.
But also to some degree, no.
this is the kind of tiktok trend I can get behind
Maybe they can do the Area 51 ninja run that was promised a few years back there. Would love to see where they keep Xenu’s frozen body or whatever.
Area 51 is both:
- An actual military facility for testing experimental aircraft
- Quite remote desert
This means that actually getting into it means:
- Being able to carry food and water long distances across inhospitable terrain
- Going to jail when you’re caught
I don’t recommend it.
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JFC, my heart…! No jump scares in the house!
They can’t stop all of us!
The number of people willing to carry food and water across the desert for a couple days, to be arrested while looking for nonexistent extraterrestrials is small.
Lots of better things to get arrested for.
Maybe they’ll find Shelley Miscaivage
