Parents whose children use TIikTok are being warned about a distressing clip of a man who filmed his own suicide began circulating on the app.
Social media sites including TikTok are scrambling to remove the clip, which has been widely shared by users all over the world.
Those who have seen the shocking video of Ronnie McNutt, 38, from Mississippi, have urged other TikTok users not to click on a thumbnail of a bearded man with glasses speaking to someone on a phone.
Some TikTok users have reported that the video has also been hidden inside other innocuous looking videos.
One Renfrewshire parent contacted the Paisley Express to highlight the video to other parents after speaking to their daughter about it.
The told the Express: "We had to sit our daughter down and speak to her about it this morning.
"I know a lot of other parents that are now deleting the app so their kids don't see it as TikTok just shows videos which are popular so it could just pop up when they are just trying to view videos of their friends dancing."
TikTok is reportedly trying to remove the graphic videos and is banning accounts that re-upload the clip.
