The trend is flourishing on TikTok in this period of family reunions: children film themselves announcing to their parents the (false) death of a celebrity they admire. Guaranteed reaction.
The kids have found a new way to make their parents drool. Thanks to the end-of-year celebrations, which bring generations together around the turkey and the Christmas tree, offspring have fun announcing the death of their favorite celebrity to their parents, and filming their reaction.
Screams, tears, threats, denial… The reactions are often very violent, even if the trapped French parents react with much more sobriety than their American counterparts.
“Impossible”
“Noooo”, “Impossible”, “You’re lying”, “What?!?”, “It’s bullshit”, “Stop”, thus punctuate these videos filmed by sadistic children. Most parents, shocked and in disbelief, then rush to their phones to verify the information.
Taylor Swift, Harry Styles, Jennifer Aniston, Bruce Springsteen, Oprah Winfrey… no one is spared, for the purposes of these bad jokes. Some let their loved ones marinate for long seconds, in the certainty that George Clooney, Brad Pitt or Patrick Bruel died in a car accident.
Some of these videos called “celebrity death prank” have been viewed more than 13 million times on TikTok, and users of the social network are even making compilations of them.
