AOL

TikTok's viral milk crate challenge can lead to 'potentially life-threatening injuries,' including broken bones and spinal cord damage, a doctor says

The "milk crate challenge" has swept social media after going viral on Facebook earlier this month. Hashtags related to the challenge on TikTok have amassed over 71 million views. Medical experts have ...
Refinery29

TikTok’s Milk Crate Challenge Is The Latest Dumb Way To Injure Yourself

People around the internet are, once again, bored enough to try anything — even if it ends in a trip to the hospital. In the latest social media challenge — the Milk Crate Challenge — participants are ...
WRAL

Conan O'Brien's tweet prompts FDA to discourage #MilkCrateChallenge

The latest internet "challenge" involves milk crates and serious pain. In "The Milk Crate Challenge," started recently on TikTok, someone gathers a bunch of milk crates and stacks them as high as they ...
Kansas City Star

FDA discourages dangerous milk crate challenge after Conan O’Brien joke

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is recommending against trying the viral milk crate challenge. Screengrab from video on Twitter After approving the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine earlier this week, the ...
WDTN

Milk-crate challenge: Hood Panda offers tips to do it safely

COLUMBUS (WCMH) — A professional skater whose tricks made him famous on social media said the Milk Crate Challenge banned by TikTok can be used to improve balance — but only if it’s done safely. Matt ...
Wired

Why You’ll Fail the Milk Crate Challenge

The goal of the "Milk Crate Challenge" is to make it from one side of the pyramid to the other. As you can see, well, it isn't so easy to pull off. We spoke with Dr. Nehemiah Mabry, an engineer, about ...
The Grio

Black doctor breaks down the science behind ‘Milk Crate Challenge’

A professional engineer and educator took to the worldwide web to explain why the Milk Crate Challenge fails. In a three-minute explanation for Wired, Dr. Nehemiah Mabry informs the curious how the ...
techtimes

[TikTokChallenge] Milk Crate Challenge and Other TikTok Challenges That Sent People to the Hospital

TikTok challenges are usually all fun and games all captured in thousands of videos with millions upon millions of views... up until someone lands in the hospital. That, unfortunately, has been the ...
New York Post

Couple slammed for combining the two worst things on the internet

This crazy combo quickly collapsed. A video of their backfired feat currently boasts millions of views on Twitter. For the (perhaps gratefully) uninitiated, the viral Milk Crate Challenge involves ...
USA Today

Fact check: No evidence 'Milk Crate Challenge' is a satanic ritual

There is yet another viral trend sweeping across the internet. This time, it involves milk crates. First, participants set up a pyramid of stacked crates. Then, they try to climb up and over the ...
The Daily Illini

University students take on milk crate challenge

The “milk crate challenge” made its entrance to campus on Wednesday evening as students gathered at the Main Quad, recreating the viral social media trend. The challenge involves stacking up 49 milk ...