Last month, an internet fad of urinating on college campuses and anonymously posting videos of it to social media began at California’s Chico State University with the TikTok account “chicostatepisser,” before spreading across the country, including into Livermore’s own Las Positas Community College. In an effort to put an end to this unsanitary vandalism, law enforcement, campus security, and online vigilantes have made it their mission to hunt down and identify the perpetrators.
Since Christopher Hutton, a student and journalist at Chico State, co-wrote an article on the vandalism for the university’s student-run newspaper “The Orion,” Chico State has announced that they have identified a suspect and taken them in for questioning. For now at least, the university has decided to handle the situation internally and has not released any information about the suspect.
Other students have begun copying the crime, both in Chico and elsewhere, but the numbers reflect a decline in the public’s interest. While the original “chicostatepisser” reportedly gained over 100,000 views before the account was removed by its owner, current campus-urination accounts are numerous in population, but fail to gain the same level of virality as the original…