What is ‘Lois Griffin Dead’ prank on TikTok?
Fake news headlines claiming that a celebrity has died appear almost daily now. Another fictional character, rather than a genuine star, has fallen victim to a death hoax.
The death of Lois Griffin, a popular character from the Fox television show Family Guy, trended online. The trend first started as a joke, but soon the phrase “Lois Griffin is dead at 43” became a popular prank on the video-sharing platform TikTok.
On December 26, 2022, Twitter was ablaze with reports of Lois Griffin’s death. The prank was launched when Family Guy fans informed their friends and family that Lois Griffin had died at the age of 43, and then recorded their emotions. The footage was subsequently shared on the social media platform TikTok.
People who hadn’t seen the show were understandably perplexed by the death news, and their replies were very funny. There was widespread dismay, and some people even looked up her name online before realising she was a fictional character from a cartoon.
Lois Griffin is a regular on the hit Fox cartoon series Family Guy. Lois plays Peter Griffin’s wife on the sitcom, which has been airing since 1999. Together, she and her husband raised three children: Meg, Chris, and Stewie Griffin.
Users of the social networking app TikTok are uploading videos of their friends and relatives’ amusing responses to the news. A TikToker laments to her family in one video that she had only recently caught up on Lois Griffin’s TV show a week before her death. After googling the name, the relatives finally inquired, “The character?
Users on Twitter also had a great time making light of the situation in their posts. “Can you guys please stop saying that Lois Griffin is dead im getting scared,” one user pleaded.
While another said, “guys ik the lois Griffin dead at 43 thing is a joke but just to confirm is she actually cause I haven’t been watching the latest family guy episodes!”.
Some viewers worried that Alex Bornstein, who plays Lois Griffin on the programme, had been injured or killed due to the whole prank and trend. Alex is thankfully still with us and doing nicely. Recently, she and her family celebrated Christmas, and she posted some videos from the festivities to Instagram.
However, despite Stewie the toddler’s best efforts to have her killed off, Lois Griffin is still very much alive in Family Guy. The youngster came dangerously close to achieving his goal in one episode of the current 21st season, in which Lois was thought to be dead. Lois appeared to have died in a virtual reality game, but it was later shown that she had actually survived.