'Ban TikTok': Teen cuts off her twin brother's long hair as a prank, mom makes her get the same haircut as punishment

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
May 6, 2023 9:00 PM EDT

TikTok trends are usually only going viral because some audacious teenager got footage of themselves doing something stupid, obscene, or way out of line. As a parent, trying to teach your kids between right and wrong is difficult enough, but when all your teenager wants is to get likes on their videos and social media validation, the moral high-ground starts to look pretty lame. One mom was forced to deal a strong hand of justice to her teen daughter when the girl decided to take the lowest road possible, following a heartless TikTok trend. 

The trend itself was stupid. People would run up to men with long hair and cut it off at the base, forcing them to get a new haircut or risk looking like an unbalanced idiot. But when one single mother's twins got caught up in the debacle, all heckity heck broke loose. When a teenaged girl takes drastic measures for Internet clout and cuts her twin brother's waist-length hair, the only thing to do (as a parent) is to enact swift and drastic punishment that matches the crime. What did u/Flat_Celebration_697 do when faced with this exact conundrum? She forced her mean daughter to get the same stupid haircut that her brother had to get after she snipped a piece. Since she clearly didn't value other people's autonomy in making this decision for themselves, the mother wasn't going to let that stand. 

Justice was served. 

Scroll for the full story on how this single mother brought her daughter's trending folly to justice with the ultimate uno-reverse. For more stories about audacious family drama, check out this story about a husband who teaches his wife a lesson by forcing her to sit next to a baby on the plane. 

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    Smile - Posted by u/Flat_Celebration_697 2 days ago AITA for making my daughter get the same haircut as my son?
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    Font - I am a single mother with twin kids, both 16. Sam and Tara. My son Sam has been growing his hair out since 2019, it was very long, around his mid back length. He usually would have it up in a bun. My daughter Tara had apparently seen a couple of internet videos of people cutting off men's long hair as pranks. She decided she wants to get some of the likes that the videos she saw were getting, so she cut off a large section of Sam's hair while he was playing video games on his play station
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    Font - I took him to the salon to get it fixed, and the longest they could really give him was a mullet-esque hairstyle because the part that got cut off ended up being mostly on the side of. his head, but to balance it out they had to take a majority of the length off. The end result looked good, or at least intentional, but still he hadn't wanted to get rid of his hair in the first place so he was quite upset.
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    Font - When we got home, my daughter didn't display any signs of feeling back about what she had done. She would actually make an effort to fluff up her hair or mess around with his hair so he would have to restyle it to make it look good.
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    Font - He was handling it very well, but I could still tell that Tara's behavior was upsetting him. She had an appointment scheduled for a color touch up and trim yesterday, so I took her there and on the car ride I told her what she was going to have to do. I said since she wanted to cut off her brother's hair, it was clear to me that she didn't think of any hair in any high regard, so she could get the same haircut as Sam.
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    Font - She got defensive, sayin that Sam is a boy so short hair affects him way less, and that she has longer hair to begin with, which is true. Her hair was almost to her waits. I told her that didn't matter, and she had to get it cut like Sam's or if she preferred, she was free to choose any style as long as it was a short haircut.
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    Font - When she was getting her hair done, she asked for them to cut hers into a shoulder length bob cut, in an attempt to get out of the punishment. I reminded her what the deal was, and she complained, saying that the bob was already way too short. However, it was still significantly longer than Sam's so I ended up having them cut her hair into the same mullet style that Sam got. They feminized it a bit which I didn't really care about, it was more the length that I was attempting to get the p
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    Font - She called their father, who blew up on me, saying that I was being a manipulative and controlling a-hole to force a girl to cut her hair so short. She hasn't spoken to me since and has stayed in her bedroom. I could hear her bawling her eyes out last night, but I think ultimately what I did, while admittedly very drastic, is teaching her an important lesson about following internet trends and respecting other people's bodily autonomy. AITA for this?
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    Rectangle - redderStranger 2 days ago The nature of the punishment was to match the nature of the crime. The merciless conviction to refuse any concessions was for rubbing his face in it.
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    Font - Roystone28 1 day ago Agreed, I mean the punishment was to teach her a lesson. I hope she learnt it, instead of hating on her mother. In the end, "Every action has consequences".
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    Facial expression - thehillshaveI 2 days ago wow, from the title i was so prepared to hate this mom but nope. way to go lady!
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    Font - Miss056 2 days ago absolutely! actions have consequences and the consequences of this will grow back for her. at least she gets to CHOOSE the cut! that's her win.
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    Smile - LadyBug_0570 - 2 days ago I know, right? Instead I'm applauding mom for teaching a very good lesson to her idiot daughter
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    Font - Grand-Corner1030 2 days ago I A NTA. An Eye for an Eye; but in this case, it'll grow back. What she did was cruel to your son and she wanted to escape consequence. The dad should be suggesting a suitable punishment and sticking up for his son. Instead, he's doubling down on saying its fine to do whatever she wants, as long as she gets those TikTok likes.
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    Font - Vinduframe 2 days ago If I were her mother, I'd check her tiktok account to see if she'd possibly make a sadtok bout her strict mother punishing her or whatever. #victim /s. ΝΤΑ
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    Rectangle - SkysEevee 2 days ago Id be banning TikTok. Not as a punishment but to make sure she isn't influenced by more toxic behavior
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    Font - Lexicon444 2 days ago Exactly. And short hair cuts can absolutely be feminine. Mine isn't even down to my neck right now and looks lovely. She had no remorse and continued tormenting her brother. She deserves it quite frankly.
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