‘Now my’: Tiktok thieves, don’t boast of stealing from restaurants in the shocking new trend
Social media has long been the birthplace of strange trends for a long time, but this is the last tiktok craze, especially disturbing. Increased number of users proudly exhibit what they define as ‘souvenirs’ from restaurants – from glasses and plates to steak blades and even cheese lands. What began as a tongue joke on the cheek became a full -developed trend, horrified the hospitality workers, and Diners was deeply divided.
Tiktokers now take themselves from the restaurants and exhibit their spoils at home as cups. This is the last theft -based FAD, followed the footprints of last year’s dangerous Tranq struggleThe place where users get a prescription to see how vigilant they can stay – at least 15 small children are hospitalized. However, contrary to this difficulty, this real world seems to include comedy or worse, treated as rights.
Restaurants were looted, a tiktok every time
Instead of hiding the crime, Tiktok users boldly introduce the thefts of restaurant, which is completed in a viral interpretation and viral voice. In one videoCreative Sovilay asks the audience, What is the best thing you play from a restaurant? ‘ He stole while holding a cheese priest.
Rachel, another partner, wears a restaurant Chiririenge (Chinese tablespoon) and takes the clip to the subtitle: ‘The queen stealing something from the restaurants I will never use at home.’
The tendency lived a life on its own, and they clearly mocked the idea of echoes of the creators. In one reportA woman boasts about stealing a rod owner of sexy fish in Miami – ‘stolen from sexy fish’ has permitted the carved text.
‘They invite me to play at that point,’ he said. Another woman thought, “ You pay $ 13 for a drink; I feel a kind of cup like me. ‘
The problem is not a small-scale path from the restaurants after the small theft itself-not new from the restaurants-but the dare and everyday tone in which it is currently published and celebrated. Some tiktokers collected all collections. A user, ClairetalkingHe proudly hid a bowl of curator, aknat, jug and glasses, even named his favorites and explained his new goals in his kitchen.
‘I really enjoy this – so I have a lot,’ Small black soy sauce says the bowls. He even exhibits a stolen carved fork, laughs: ‘I haven’t used it yet … But maybe it’s a good spoon holder.’
‘This is my collection,’ It concludes with joy. ‘I’ll get more soon.’
Criticism, Clairetalking’s Comment section Supporting joke and open-hearted explanations-show a lack of accountability.
Not everyone can find funny
Not all tiktokers are with this criminal cosplay. Creative Youngkaren He criticized the tendency and called it ‘strange’ and ‘normalized theft’. He said he knew how deeply influence smaller businesses, who are randomly playing ‘normal’ people.
“If I was sitting with you and stole something, I would have told you to the waiter,” Warned. ‘Even if you were my friend, it will still happen.’
Karen argued that everyone running or working in a small enterprise would understand how costly ‘harmless’ theft could be.
Real results for real businesses
Indeed, the rise of this trend emphasizes a much greater problem: theft from restaurants and small businesses is not a joke. In the UK Federation of Small Enterprises (FSB) He reported that more than four million small companies in England and Wales were victims of at least one crime between 2021 and 2023. More than half of them lost more than 1,000 £ -10% lost more than 10,000 £.
Even the staff is stunned by the trend. A bartender in the Japanese Restaurant Hapa in Toronto said that customers frequently walked with firing glasses and beer cups.
‘When we clean these tables and find that these items are inadequate, know that we see you,’ he said. ‘And the only thing we are curious about is why.’
What does this trend say about us
Although social media has long been blurring lines between humor and damage, this latest trend is dangerously transformed into glorified theft. Encouraging theft for liking, views or comedy creates a disturbing precedent not only for digital ethics, but for how people treat physical spaces and real workers.
As Clairetalking proves the video, users don’t just steal things, but also encourage theft, commodify and turn it into fun. The cost of a laugh seems to be welcomed by someone else.
In the end, the viral success of this restaurant’s tendency to looting reveals more than an interesting Tiktok Fad. It creates an alarming cultural change: the theft is trivialized, empathy is eroded and the social currency is more valuable than a spoon integrity.
