Does anyone know what the online trend is or what they were actually doing? There are a couple of references to "causing disturbances" and "stealing food" but no explanation of what the overall activity entails.
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2026
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Sheikh Awais, who works at chicken shop Rooster Spot, said 70 to 80 young people came in on Tuesday.
"They were shouting and sitting there, some were rude and aggressive with me," he said but added that some did go outside nicely.
I think they do a lot of thing, and this is one in particular, but mostly can be summarised as a large group of people with common goal and being extremely rowdy and harassing people.
I always feel like this is all governments trying to see what they can do to leverage social media for. These are all test runs that get studied and logged in a manual and every couple years a new one is tried
where young people were reported to be attempting to access shops and a restaurant. They also lit fires and set off fireworks on Clapham Common.
Ah yes, the online trend of accessing shops and restaurants
From the context of the article, it sounds like they're organizing looting flash mobs, but at restaurants instead of retail stores. More info would be nice.
As best I can tell, people on Snapchat and TikTok are kicking off "linkups" at an agreed place and time, and some of them are going viral.
I think the aim is genuinely to cause a bit of chaos, given safety in numbers, but I doubt most people attend with the intent of causing serious damage to people or property.
I found a clear explanation I'm going to default to the police where harassing teenagers and needed an excuse
Even after reading the article I still don't understand what was going on
I think this is evolvement from those pesky youtubers and tiktokers who claim audience by going in shops and whatnot only to cause disturbance. Kids will see it funny and cook it further.
Those dicks' accounts should be instabanned from all of the platforms as soon that beahavior comes up in feeds.