Six teenage girls have been arrested after two separate incidents of anti-social behaviour “fuelled by online trends” in south-west London, the Met Police said.
About 100 officers were called to Clapham High Street on Tuesday where young people were reported to be attempting to access shops and a restaurant. They also lit fires and set off fireworks on Clapham Common.
I think this is evolvement from those pesky youtubers and tiktokers who claim audience by going in shops and whatnot only to cause disturbance. Kids will see it funny and cook it further.
Those dicks’ accounts should be instabanned from all of the platforms as soon that beahavior comes up in feeds.
Even after reading the article I still don’t understand what was going on
Does anyone know what the online trend is or what they were actually doing? There are a couple of references to “causing disturbances” and “stealing food” but no explanation of what the overall activity entails.
I found a clear explanation I’m going to default to the police where harassing teenagers and needed an excuse
From the context of the article, it sounds like they’re organizing looting flash mobs, but at restaurants instead of retail stores. More info would be nice.
Sheikh Awais, who works at chicken shop Rooster Spot, said 70 to 80 young people came in on Tuesday.
“They were shouting and sitting there, some were rude and aggressive with me,” he said but added that some did go outside nicely.
I think they do a lot of thing, and this is one in particular, but mostly can be summarised as a large group of people with common goal and being extremely rowdy and harassing people.
Main trend is decades of austerity caused by neoliberalism, but I don’t think it’s a particularly online trend, nor are the redditors that push it really responsible for it actually happening.
What the fuck are you talking about
where young people were reported to be attempting to access shops and a restaurant. They also lit fires and set off fireworks on Clapham Common.
