The TikToker who created the bogus #PorcelainChallenge trend as a joke “to get the boomers to freak out” claims he has been kicked off the app.
Sebastian Durfee, 23, known as @childprogeny on the social media app, says he was booted shortly after he got about half a million views of his Oct. 1 hoax — in which he falsely claimed kids were smashing up heirloom porcelain plates and snorting the powdery remains.
“The fact that the company reacted to the challenge by removing my videos and my account just proves exactly the point I had been making in creating the challenge: that people would rather dissolve into moral panic at the first sign of danger than actually investigate the source for its veracity,” he told The Post.
Durfee, who lives in New York, told The Post that he switched to his alternative account @sebastian_spams to let his followers know that several of his videos were removed by TikTok “for supposedly violating community guidelines,” which caused him to suspect a suspension was imminent.
When he tried to log back in to his main account on Monday, two days after the original video was posted, it was removed, he claimed.
“I was informed that the account no longer existed and had been permanently banned. I received no formal notification, reasoning or justification for the decision,” he said.
Durfee said his ban came after months of fighting with TikTok, which did not return The Post’s requests for comment on the reason why the account is no longer active.
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