TikTok has taken down 'poverty porn' videos of women shivering in mud baths and crying after a government banned them

• TikTok has taken down "poverty porn" videos after Indonesia banned them, Rest of World reported.
• The trend involves showing women shivering in mud baths and sometimes crying. 
• A woman who said she earned $600 in nine sessions said it was better than working for $2 a day.

TikTok has taken down "poverty porn" videos of women sitting in mud baths and crying after they were banned by the Indonesian government.

The trend known as "mandi lumpur," or mud baths, involves Indonesian women in their fifties and sixties sitting in a pool of water and mud while being shown on a TikTok livestream. Viewers send "coins" and gifts that are exchanged for cash.