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.”
19 Comments
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 58 pts · 129d
The kids are alright
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 44 pts · 129d
They’re freaky buildings with blocked windows and rooms within rooms. Bringingattention to it seems like a good thing.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 128d
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.
Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus · 27 pts · 129d
Beetschnapps@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 128d
Get all the Scientologists to somehow ingest tide pods… then throw boiled NyQuil chicken into the mouths of the rest… all while you dump disease curing buckets of ice in top of randos!
Then on to Area 51!
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 26 pts · 128d
TikTok trend-chasers versus Scientologists?
A7thStone@lemmy.world · -11 pts · 128d
OK boomer.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 10 pts · 128d
Am I a Boomer if I remember the 'TikTok trend' of vandalizing school bathrooms?
A7thStone@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 128d
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.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 6 pts · 128d
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.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 128d
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 129d
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.
silence7@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 128d
Area 51 is both:
This means that actually getting into it means:
I don't recommend it.
DancingBear@midwest.social · 2 pts · 128d
GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 128d
JFC, my heart..! No jump scares in the house!
Ascrod@midwest.social · 6 pts · 128d
They can't stop all of us!
silence7@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 128d
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.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 128d
Maybe they'll find Shelley Miscaivage
some_designer_dude@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 129d
Let’s do this with Billionaires’ mansions, too. Like Cribs, but with more action and suspense.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 129d
All this is going to do is lead to scientology centers creating badged entry doors.
astropenguin5@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 128d
Should be fine until then tho!
And even if they do that, there are ways to get through badged entry doors :P