“It helps me clear my mind and focus on what I am doing at the moment,” Athens, Ohio, senior Lindsay Zatta said.

Waco Police Department spokesperson Cierra Shipley said that the uptick in theft can be attributed to the return of students to Baylor’s campus. She said this increase isn’t unusual, as Waco PD always sees a slight increase in theft cases when the new school year begins.

The “Devious Lick” TikTok trend — which encourages students in middle schools and high schools to steal and vandalize the school and post it online — has spread rapidly throughout the country, with dozens of school districts issuing warnings to students if they continue to participate.

Facebook refers to children as a “valuable but untapped audience” in leaked internal documents. An expert on campus reacted to the controversy.

“We are surrounded by people that are just accepting being average, and I feel like Christ has made us to not be average,” Smith Getterman, director of sustainability and special projects, said.