Deliberately Sticking Hands and Feet When Subway Doors Close... Japan Also Troubled by TikTok Trends

Delays in Operation Due to Actions Like Blocking Movement
Discomfort Grows as Trend Spreads on SNS

In Japan, footage showing high school girls in uniforms deliberately blocking subway doors just as they are about to close, causing intentional delays in subway departures, has sparked public outrage.

On the 15th (local time), foreign media including Bastille Post reported that among Japanese youths, it has become a social media (SNS) trend to film themselves wedging their bodies into subway doors to prevent the train from departing and upload the videos on TikTok.

A social media account that captures and uploads recent misdeeds occurring on TikTok posted a video with the caption "A fool playing at the closing subway doors."
[Photo by TikTok]

An SNS account that compiles recent misdeeds on TikTok posted a video with the caption "Fools playing at the closing subway doors." The footage shows high school girls deliberately inserting their bodies between the doors of a subway about to depart at Musashi-Itsukaichi Station on the Tokyo JR Itsukaichi Line.

In the video, the girls stand deliberately in the middle of the closing doors, get stuck, make exaggerated facial expressions, and gesture as if their hands are tied. The closing doors reopened more than three times, delaying the subway's departure and causing inconvenience to other passengers.

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The video quickly spread through various online communities and SNS, and netizens even investigated and revealed the identities of the high school girls appearing in the footage. As the controversy grew, the video has since been deleted.

Globally, the popularity of indiscriminately provocative short video content has led to ongoing issues with platforms like TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram Reels.

Previously in Japan, there were controversies over "hygiene terrorism," such as spitting on sushi moving on conveyor belts at revolving sushi restaurants or spitting into cups and then putting them back on display. Recently, an incident occurred at a cafe where an employee sold a cocktail mixed with their own blood to a customer.

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