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"Saturday Night Live" nodded to the alleged "slap a teacher"
The sketch, titled "Mellen," stars Sudeikis as a "male Ellen" modeled after the host of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," $4 The "Ted Lasso" star $4 and $4 in $4
A hyper-masculine take on DeGeneres' show, the "Mellen" sketch included a nod to the alleged "slap a teacher" TikTok challenge, for which warnings $4
"Instead of the cute, inspiring kids that Ellen has on, Mellen has kids who slap their teachers to get famous on TikTok," the narrator says, as an imitation TikTok video shows a student slapping a teacher behind a desk. The account featured in the imitation video does exist, but it bears an "
"Someone get that kid a beer!" Sudeikis, as "Mellen," says after the fake video rolls.
The "slap a teacher" challenge theoretically involved students posting videos of themselves slapping teachers as a play for views and likes on TikTok. $4, and a TikTok spokesperson told Insider that while it would violate the platform's community guidelines, it had not found "related content on our platform."
Warnings about the alleged TikTok challenge from schools and police began to circulate in September on social media - particularly Facebook - and were typically $4 The warnings came in the $4 that $4 which saw students stealing school equipment and posting about it on TikTok.
It's not clear exactly where allegations of a "slap a teacher" challenge originated, but they appear to have spread predominately on Facebook. A TikTok spokesperson previously told Insider that "most people appear to be learning about the offline dare from sources other than TikTok."