Milagros Soto Wiki, Biography
Another TikTok trend, called the Blackout Challenge, claimed the life of a 12-year-old girl who attempted the “choking challenge,” which has been all the rage on the short video-sharing app of late.
Milagros Soto, who belonged to Argentina, was found hanged at her home. Her aunt, Laura Luque, informed Jam Press about the tragedy and said that the event occurred on January 13, 2023. She said:
We are heartbroken that we gave him so much love.”
The blackout challenge has been around since 2008 and has claimed many lives. However, the trend returned to TikTok in 2021 and has been in the spotlight ever since.
The reason the trend is considered so dangerous is that it encourages people to restrict their breathing until they lose consciousness. This can cause oxygen levels to drop in the brain, which can lead to seizures and injuries, and can also cause death.
“I think someone encouraged her to do it”: Laura, the victim’s aunt, revealed more details about the death of her niece due to the blackout challenge
TikTok has been home to many trends and challenges, and people actively engage in these challenges, either out of curiosity or the fame it brings. However, many people have died in recent years due to the blackout challenge.
The aunt of 12-year-old Milagros Soto said she feels her peers on the internet encouraged her to join the trend. She said:
“I think someone encouraged her to do it. She suffered a lot from the bullying.”
Jam Press also reported that this was not the first time the victim had attempted the blackout challenge. She had successfully completed the challenge twice before, but this time she was unable to remove the rope from her neck. The media house also reported that the entire incident was caught on camera as it was supposedly live-streaming the challenge.
Authorities also began looking into the matter further, as her family members claimed that many on social media encouraged her to take the blackout challenge. A thorough investigation is even more crucial as the aunt claimed that her niece had received multiple links to do the TikTok challenge.
Soto’s school also paid tribute, saying:
“We stand with our student’s family at this terrible time. She was a great student, friend, sweet, good and kind.”
De Soto’s aunt described her niece as a beautiful girl with blonde hair and blue eyes and claimed that she was often bullied at school. She said:
“We have many doubts about everything that happened. She was a very smart girl. She suffered a lot of bullying. She told us that at school no one liked her because they said she looked pretty, because she was blonde and had light blue eyes.
She added:
“She was a happy person. Amazing. An excellent niece, granddaughter, daughter. A very studious girl because we have nothing more to say because everyone here knew her as the girl who smiled with those big eyes.
The blackout challenge, also known as the suffocation challenge or the blackout challenge, has claimed a minimum of 80 lives. Due to the rise of such harmful and dangerous trends on social media, many people have sued the platform.
TikTok, on the other hand, encourages users to set trends, users and videos that encourage young people and adults to participate in such deadly challenges and challenges.