Published 12:03 IST, April 29th 2020

What is the foreigner challenge on Instagram? Is it dangerous for people?

Foreigner challenge on Instagram has been trending for the past few days. Read on to know what is the foreigner challenge on Instagram and other details.

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Amidst COVID 19 lockdown, many challenges have caught on and many more were seen making a comeback. While most of m were silly and light-hearted with purpose of entertaining people on social media, some of m have been worrisome. A new challenge kwn as Foreigner Challenge has been trending se days on social media, which has roped in many young teens and has potential to be dangerous for m. If you are wondering how n read on for details.

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What is Foreigner Challenge?

This challenge has highlighted need to make social media a safer place for mirs. Foreigner Challenge has encourd underd teens to expose mselves online and ir videos can be used anywhere. Foreigner Challenge involves young people to make a ‘funimate’ of mselves and post it on social media. Funimate is a video and music editing app which enables users to add photos and short videos toger to form a longer video. y can also add a soundtrack to it. soundtrack that is being used most is a song by Pop Smoke –Foreigner.

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funimate can eir be shared on social media platforms or it gets sent to a specific Foreigner Challenge Instagram account which is designed specifically to expose se videos. videos are n judged, commented on and rated according to liking of netizens.

While challenge started with people uploaded a series of selfies and ims of mselves, it has w taken a turn for worse. Young boys and girls started posting explicit ims and videos of mselves which got m into trouble. According to media portals, challenge is speculated to be a form of child porgraphy and people who are exposing and sharing 'funimate' are subject to serious convictions if caught. refore, people on social media have been asking for challenge to go down and all videos to get deleted.

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12:02 IST, April 29th 2020