SC teenagers defy ‘devious’ TikTok pattern by adorning restrooms | State Information

GREENWOOD – “Oh no” is the first thing Lori Anne Hagood, Headmistress at Cambridge Academy, thought when she was recently called to the high school bathroom.

TikTok, a social media video sharing app where students stole or destroyed things in their schools, often in the bathroom, was a trend called “devil licks”. Cambridge had therefore increased the daily controls and monitoring for the toilets.

However, when she went to the bathroom, she found the opposite of destruction and vandalism.

The high school boys had decided not to degrade their bathroom, but to make it better. Now the bathroom has a basketball goal hanging from a cubicle. Pictures adorn the walls, including a portrait of Handsome Thaddäus from the cartoon “Spongebob Squarepants”. There’s a Las Vegas sign on the wall. A glowing inflatable Jack Skellington (a character from “The Nightmare Before Christmas”) fills a corner and color-changing LED lights line the sinks, currently orange for the Halloween season.

“I think, ‘Oh no, something is missing or something is wrong.’ And the opposite was the case, ”said Hagood.

Senior Logan Adams was scrolling TikTok when he saw a video of a man putting a tissue box in a bathroom to counter insidious licks.

“I was like, ‘You know, let’s do something stupid that is going to be really cool,'” said Adams. He had a group chat with others in high school and shared his idea with them. “We’re going to decorate the whole bathroom and make it really nice,” he told them.

Junior Nash Bowen brought a huge “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Nevada” sign that his father owns. Adams brought the lights and Jack Skellington and other students brought the other decorations.

“We’re still at it,” said Bowen. The group chat is still running and the guys have plans for future additions.

The upper school girls jumped on the idea, said junior Faith Harvley.

They also have a group chat and have decorated their bathroom with Christmas lights, a neon sign, motivational sayings and a cowboy hat. Further plans are also in the works for the girls’ toilet.

“I think it’s great because this bathroom is also used by … all ages so they see positive change even when everyone else is talking about the negative things that are going on,” said Hagood.

“We are all family and we all know that we work together and do something better than something worse.”

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