TikTok has released a statement regarding the death of 13-year-old Ohio boy Jacob Stevens, who perished earlier this week while partaking in the deadly “Benadryl Challenge” allegedly popularized on the platform.

“Our deepest sympathies go out to the family,” reps for the Chinese social media site wrote in a statement to the Post. “At TikTok, we strictly prohibit and remove content that promotes dangerous behavior with the safety of our community as a priority.”

They added, “We have never seen this type of content trend on our platform and have blocked searches for years to help discourage copycat behavior.”

Jacob had been participating in the aforementioned “Benadryl Challenge” in which participants take 12 to 14 of the antihistamines — six times the recommended dose — in order to induce hallucinations.

The potentially deadly stunt started blowing up in 2020 as teens uploaded their attempts on TikTok in a bid to become internet famous.

This resulted in several deaths with Jacob becoming just the latest victim of the foolhardy pharmaceutical feat.

The teen’s father, Justin, explained that his son was at home last weekend with friends when he overdosed. Footage taken by his pals showed the Columbus resident downing the pills, after which his body reportedly started to seize up.

Jacob was subsequently rushed to the hospital and put on a ventilator, where he remained for six days before eventually succumbing to his injuries.

In light of his son’s tragic death, the devastated Ohioan warned fellow parents about the dangers of teens using social media unsupervised.

“Keep an eye at what they’re doing on that phone,” he said. “Talk to them about the situation. I want everyone to know about my son.”

Medical experts also cautioned young people against partaking in the harebrained stunt.

“It is a death trap if you ask me and the latest tragedy is an example of this,” US physician Dr. Jen Caudle warned in a TikTok video. “This is a warning to parents, for kids, for people out there. Do not try this.”

She added, “Taking too much of it can obviously cause a number of symptoms, from heart problems to seizures, and even death — as we are seeing.”

“We’re working actively with social media companies to ask them to do more,” seconded Dr. Rahul Gupta, director of National Drug Control Police for the White House, ABC reported. “They can and they must do more to hold these bad actors and these kinds of campaigns accountable and remove them from their platforms.”

Nonetheless, TikTok reps claimed that they were not aware of these types of videos trending on their platform and that they were doing everything in their power to crack down on such content.

“Our team of 40,000 safety professionals works to remove violations of our Community Guidelines and we encourage our community to report any content or accounts they’re concerned about,” they declared in the aforementioned statement.

They also boasted in the guidelines that “between October – December 2022, of the videos that we removed that violated our dangerous acts and challenges policy, 96% were removed proactively, with 70.5% of those videos receiving no views. Additionally, 82.2% were removed within 24 hours.

According to their standards, users are prohibited from posting videos “showing or promoting dangerous activities and challenges.” 

These include “dares, games, tricks, inappropriate use of dangerous tools, eating substances that are harmful to one’s health, or similar activities that may lead to significant physical harm.”

Unfortunately, the “Benadryl Challenge” is just the latest in a long line of potentially deadly challenges TikTok has been accused of allowing to proliferate on its platform.

Other viral feats have included the skullbreaker challenge, the cha-cha slide challenge, and the blackout challenge, which encourages internet clout-seekers to asphyxiate themselves until passing out. 

In January, a 12-year-old girl in Argentina accidentally hung herself to her death while attempting the latter fad.

It’s yet unclear how these dangerous trends will be affected by TikTok’s newly-announced measures to restrict usage for under-18 users. These included a one-hour daily screen time limit in an effort to curb endless scrolling that some argue is turning youths into “boring beasts.”