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TikTok users in Los Angeles are going viral for a bizarre new trend where they run into Scientology buildings to see how far they can get before being stopped and thrown out.

The clips, often filmed in Hollywood, show creators rushing through the front doors, sprinting down hallways, and sometimes even using skateboards to push deeper into the building. The goal is simple: make it as far inside as possible.

The challenge has quickly been dubbed the “Scientology run,” with users trying to one-up each other after one viral clip claimed to show the “deepest recorded run.”

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[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 41 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The kids are alright

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They’re freaky buildings with blocked windows and rooms within rooms. Bringingattention to it seems like a good thing.

It was a good idea when I was in college and participated in the protests around that in the mid/late naughties; it’s still a good idea.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

TikTok trend-chasers versus Scientologists?

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 20 points 3 weeks ago

this is the kind of tiktok trend I can get behind

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Maybe they can do the Area 51 ninja run that was promised a few years back there. Would love to see where they keep Xenu's frozen body or whatever.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Area 51 is both:

  • An actual military facility for testing experimental aircraft
  • Quite remote desert

This means that actually getting into it means:

  1. Being able to carry food and water long distances across inhospitable terrain
  2. Going to jail when you're caught

I don't recommend it.

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

JFC, my heart..! No jump scares in the house!

[–] Ascrod@midwest.social 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They can't stop all of us!

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

The number of people willing to carry food and water across the desert for a couple days, to be arrested while looking for nonexistent extraterrestrials is small.

Lots of better things to get arrested for.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Maybe they'll find Shelley Miscaivage