TikTok Teen Breeds Army Of 1.4 Million Frogs, Officials Are Alarmed

The "ThinFrog" TikTok user made a video series in which he used a lot of frog spawn to produce frogs in a backyard pool.

The UK-based teen discloses that the frogs had first developed into tadpoles and then eventually into little frogs in recent videos posted to the TikTok page.

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One of the nearby neighbors reportedly departed because of the enormous number of frogs, according to the video.

According to Tierra Curry, a conservation biologist at the Center for Biological Diversity, the release of more than a million frogs into an environment as part of a stunt "makes me cringe" because it harms the animals that are being released and may have broader effects on animals that are present in the surrounding environment.

"Instead of helping, [These TikTok users] are hurting the animals they're releasing and all the animals in the environment that they're releasing them into - it's creating a vector for disease and invasive species," said Curry.

Notably, ThinFrog declared that he will be building a pond able to house 10 million frogs next year.

Experts are not happy about teenagers causing damage to sensitive natural ecosystems, especially if copycats, or, uh, copyfrogs, start to catch on. The number of users requesting advice from accounts like thinfrog in comment sections is concerning.

BBC Wildlife marine biologist Dawood Qureshi told Metro that "breeding that many frogs are not good for the environment," adding that such an influx of predators could limit the number of insects, which could "hurt important processes such as pollination."