A 24-year-old mother from Helsingborg, Sweden, was recently convicted of harassment after cracking an egg on her daughter’s forehead for a TikTok video.

In 2023, a controversial trend went viral on TikTok – parents all over the world started filming themselves pranking their small children by cracking eggs on their foreheads. Many saw this as harmless fun, even though in certain cases, the kids hardly ever joined their parents in laughter. But one particular case in Sweden recently made national news headlines after a young mother was convicted of harassment for humiliating her daughter by cracking an egg on her forehead for the amusement of her viewers. The 24-year-old woman insisted that it was just a silly prank and that everyone was doing it on TikTok at the time, but that wasn’t enough to impress the judge.