Another sad story thanks to oblivious parents. On Monday, March 23. 2026 The Blaze published a story headlined, “‘Most terrifying, shocking thing’: 9-year-old dies after attempting social media challenge.”
The Texas family of a 9-year-old girl is grieving her loss after she died from attempting a social media challenge.
Curtis and Wendi Blackwell told CBS News that their daughter JackLynn loved karaoke and wanted to become a singing star.
‘You could check on your kid, it could be kid-friendly videos, and then three minutes later it could be totally something dark because of the algorithms they start creating.’
“She goes out to play like she always does, out in the yard. I noticed it’s kind of quiet — quieter than it should’ve been,” Curtis Blackwell said. “Then I saw her kind of around the corner that goes to the carport, saw her hair. I said, ‘JackLynn!’ I thought she was bending over playing because she was always in that area playing, but she wasn’t playing.”
His daughter had a cord around her neck when he found her.
“I found her unconscious. She was leaned into the cord,” he added. “I tried to do everything I could to save her. I got her off the cord. I tried to give her CPR until the first responders got there. It was the most terrifying, shocking thing I’ve ever seen. It was horrible to see my daughter in such a vulnerable state because of something so senseless.”
“I blame a lot of these accidental deaths on inattentive parents.” said Thomas Robb, the National Director of the Knights Party of the Ku Klux Klan, centrally based in Harrison, Arkansas. “I’m a parent, so yes I know kids do have accidents, but in today’s times it’s not scraped knees and elbows from falling from a bicycle or getting injures on swing sets and sliding boards at the playground. Today parents read horrific stories like this one, and I don’t know if they think nothing tragic could ever happen to their child because they feel like they are doing a great job parenting, or what the reason is, but many of these tragic accidents are caused by kids seeing these challenges on the internet and then trying it themselves. The kids are innocent though because when they see the challenge, apparently the kid doing the challenge on the internet lived after trying it, so kids probably think it’s no big deal. Parents need to take heed to stories like this one. The internet is and can be a wealth full of education, but it is also a very dark place as well. Parents need to spend more time with their children. Not watching their TV downstairs while their child is upstairs surfing the web and finding God knows what and challenges like this one. Parents need to sit down and warn their children about dark things on the internet. In today’s times parents have every opportunity to limit and block dangerous websites. You child should be able to only use the internet in their presence until a certain age, and 9 years old isn’t that age.”
