‘Me being Gen Z is definitely bad news’: Student pulls age-old stunt to avoid submitting an assignment. It backfires

A TikTok video of a Gen Z university teacher exposing a student’s attempt to trick him with an old-school “fake document” trick has gone viral.

The video was posted by TikToker Boro (@perpetuallyblurryglasses) on Nov. 11 and has accumulated over 1.3 million views. In the clip, he explains that he teaches undergrads at a university and alleges that one of his students purposely tried to submit his assignment in the wrong format so that he could not open it on Turnitin, a plagiarism detection software.