This sounds interesting! What did you do?

Some of us from the forum totse emailed local news stations, schools, and police departments pretending to be concerned parents. I wrote my high school and local news and said that my child was using jenkem and linked to an article from a local news station from somewhere else in the country to kind of back up my claims.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jenkem/

Wow, so jenkem was largely a TOTSE creation? Do you have any idea how the original stories from Africa got started — were there TOTSE members in Zambia?

There's a BBC article from the late 90s or early 2000s about jenkem in Africa. It's messed up and sad. Someone saw that and turned it into a meme. Jenkem in America was a totse creation

I suspect jenkem in Zambia was also a hoax

I hope so. I found the author's email address. I'll ask her

did you find out?