A 24-year-old mom in Helsingborg, Sweden, just learned the hard way that chasing TikTok clout sometimes comes with a hefty price tag and a criminal record.
Last summer, she told her young daughter they’d be baking an apple cake together for a wholesome little TikTok video. Instead of flour and sugar, the girl got an unexpected ingredient: an egg, cracked straight onto her forehead by her own mother, yolk dripping down her face, all for the amusement of the internet.
It was part of a viral trend where parents prank their kids by cracking eggs on their heads because apparently, traumatizing your child is now content. The child, understandably startled and in pain, asked her mom to stop. But the camera kept rolling, and so did the laughter.
@sandy_beach_florida #eggprank #pranks #funnyvideos #funny #funnytiktoks #viral #fyp ♬ original sound – Sandy's Furbaby Blessings The video racked up around 100,000 views, but not everyone was entertained. One viewer reported the video to Swedish authorities, and prosecutors didn’t see it as just a prank.
“When I saw the video, I thought: you simply don’t do that to a child. To record and humiliate the child and then broadcast it to thousands of viewers, I find that incredibly degrading, and that’s my personal opinion,” prosecutor Cecilia Andersson told reporters.
Andersson continued, “It’s a little girl who thinks she’s going to bake an apple cake with her mom and is happy and excited about it, and then all of a sudden she gets an egg cracked in her forehead. This is a reckless act.”
The mother, who remains unnamed, defended herself by saying, “everyone was doing it” and she didn’t mean any harm. But the Helsingborg District Court wasn’t buying it.
She was convicted of harassment and ordered to pay SEK 20,000 (roughly $2,070) in damages to her own daughter.
