The new TikTok Self-Defense trend is currently urging women to purchase some dangerous smartphone accessories, such as an iPhone taser.
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The so-called safety keychains are currently going viral on the TikTok platform, commonly sold by young female influencers on social media.
Costing around $30 each, these self-defense phone keychains are usually colorful, allowing buyers to disguise them as ordinary smartphone accessories.
But, they can use them anytime when they feel danger since these accessories hide pepper spray, tasers, and other self-defense weapons.
TikTok Self-Defense Trend: Why Is It Concerning?
According to News Week's latest report, the new TikTok trend concerns many self-defense experts. Many of these professionals claimed that it is not good to sell dangerous accessories to untrained individuals.
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One of them is Jennifer Cassetta, the self-defense expert that manages the "She Warrior" online self-defense course. She explained that offering tasers and other dangerous tools to untrained women is "unrealistic."
"In general, a tool is just a tool, it's not a weapon unless you really know how to use it and you trained with it and you understand it and it's like an extension of your limb," she explained.
Cassetta added that people, especially young women, should undergo self-defense training first before they are handed dangerous tools that can harm their attackers.
Aside from selling dangerous phone accessories, TikTok has another issue involving video guides since many of these content provide wrong instructions on how to use different self-defense tools.
Self-Defense Gurus Now Criticized on TikTok
TikTok is definitely a platform that offers unusual content. Right now, this video website allows self-defense videos showing how you should act during a robbery and other dangerous situations.
However, most of the self-defense gurus on TikTok are now being criticized. One of them is a police officer who provides tips on stealing a gun from a criminal.
He usually provides unrealistic stunts that can easily endanger your life if you do them in an actual dangerous situation. Some of the TikTok users who watched his videos even said that he can get people "killed." You can watch one of his videos below.
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