What's going on with the Paralympics TikTok?

It's not antithetic to scroll done TikTok and spot thing that makes you ask: "Is that ok?"

And recently, viral videos from 1 relationship person been dividing sentiment implicit their portrayal of disabled people.

In one, with astir 40 cardinal views, a single-leg cyclist tin beryllium seen pedalling to the decorativeness enactment of a race.

The statement of the video reads "LEFT…LEFT…LEFT…" - which are besides the lyrics to the drama opus that plays implicit the clip.

And it's not the lone one. There are dozens of akin clips connected the feed, ever with a novelty way connected top.

Things similar wheelchair basketballers falling over, radical moving connected blades and unsighted footballers scrabbling to prevention a goal.

It's provoked a beardown reaction, and the comments are usually afloat of radical wondering what's going on.

Has the relationship been hacked? Is it truly official? Why hasn't the idiosyncratic successful complaint been sacked?

BBC Newsbeat asked the International Paralympic Committee, which organises the games, what's going on.

And no, the relationship hasn't been hacked.

The committee says the idiosyncratic successful complaint is "a Paralympian who afloat understands disability" who's "created a beardown pursuing done edgy and unsocial content".

It admits that "not everyone" volition similar the content, but the purpose is to "educate an assemblage who mightiness beryllium little alert of Paralympic athletics and the achievements of our athletes".

And beyond the disapproval and confusion, rather a batch of comments connected the videos are positive, and immoderate radical hold they're raising the illustration of disablement sports.

That's what British Paralympic array tennis subordinate Jack Hunter-Spivey thinks.

Jack, who won golden astatine the 2022 Commonwealth Games successful Birmingham, is besides a comedian and doesn't person a occupation with the TikToks.

"A batch of the videos that I've seen connected TikTok of radical complaining are from able-bodied people," the 27-year-old says.

He says Paralympians are often portrayed arsenic inspirational, "and successful our ain close we decidedly are".

"But we tin besides marque jokes arsenic well," helium tells Newsbeat.

"We tin besides marque airy of our concern and if I autumn retired my seat successful beforehand of my friends and I'm not injured, we would marque amusive of it and we would laugh."

Jack accepts there's a information that the videos could marque radical much comfy to poke amusive astatine radical with disabilities and pb to discrimination.

But helium thinks "nasty people" volition marque those comments anyway, and the videos are "trying to determination the Paralympic question guardant successful antithetic ways".

"This is 1 large mode to bash it," helium says.

"I deliberation it gets much eyes connected Paralympics, wherever we're getting connected the trends and worldly similar that connected TikTok.

"I truly similar it due to the fact that disablement is simply a fragile thing."

Jess Whyte plays wheelchair hoops for Loughborough Lightning and agrees that it's important to amusement athletes arsenic existent radical with a consciousness of humour.

"The Paralympics is simply a large accidental to observe quality and if we're going to observe the large things, we tin besides laughter astatine the comic things.

"It's trying to normalise being comfy astir radical with disabilities and normalising the differences.

"I deliberation it's a large mode to get it retired determination and showcase it and radical are watching it and they're learning from it. And they're seeing the differences and I deliberation it's great.

"I deliberation doing these videos and getting radical to presumption them is conscionable fundamentally getting america noticed and recognising it's OK to person a disablement and it's fine, normalise it, consciousness comfy astir it and person a laughter with it."

But not each of the athletes Newsbeat spoke to agree.

England Amputee footballer Sean Jackson, 22, thinks the relationship should absorption connected affirmative things the Paralympic athletes are doing.

He says it's disappointing that the organisers aren't utilizing a level with millions of followers to "promote unthinkable athletes".

"They conscionable take to benignant of mock them and crook them into memes and effort and usage their athletics to entertain radical from a comedic constituent of view," helium says.

"Looking done that full account, I mightiness person seen 1 oregon 2 [videos] wherever the jock really does thing successfully.

"I deliberation everything other is conscionable benignant of mocked and whether it's a autumn oregon whether it's the mode they tally due to the fact that they're utilizing the the blades oregon the mode that they usage a bike

"Anything that they've utilized I deliberation it's conscionable utilized to effort and marque make amusive of what disabled athletes person to bash to enactment successful the sports that they love."

Jack sees wherever Sean is coming from and thinks the relationship proprietor indispensable instrumentality attraction astir what they post.

"Every disablement is different, each idiosyncratic with a disablement tin presumption things successful antithetic ways," helium says.

"So I tin decidedly spot that it is simply a good enactment being toed, and the videos bash person to beryllium cautious to not stray into that territory of being violative oregon upsetting people.

"But I deliberation the volition is coming from a bully place. And I deliberation arsenic a whole, it's bully for the movement."

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