Application users TikTok Recently, a ploy to achieve the highest views and earn a lot of money by pretending to eat live insects during the live broadcast, according to a report published on the site.insider“.
And videos broadcasted from outside the United States of America appeared of Russian-speaking people carrying a bowl full of live insects, which looked like a kind of multi-colored pasta or cereal, but upon closer examination it could be discovered that they were live insects or larvae, which filled a transparent bowl or a plastic bowl. .
Insect eating videos
This type of video appeared on the “Tik Tok” application in late October and early November on the “Tik Tok” page. For You The popular app is pushing different types of live broadcasts to its fans in the US, who are not bothered by watching such footage.
It does not appear that the majority of participants in such clips actually eat insects, as they pick up insects with a spoon and hold them in front of the camera, and sometimes bring the insects close to their faces, such as a man who pretends to eat insects he collected and puts in his hair, and a user chews a sticky white substance while holding a spoon Full of insects near his mouth.
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It seems that the live broadcast that contains errors has succeeded in attracting many viewers, which motivated the creators to experiment themselves to achieve many views to earn money.
A video clip was posted on TikTok The parody of the bug-eating trend has over 16 million views and over 2 million likes.
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Some users laughedTikTok Among those who pretend to eat insects by broadcasting a video clip in which they appear imitating fake chewing sounds while holding a bowl with a picture printed on it is the image of worms.
