Teen boys are wearing Meta glasses to school

Teen boys are wearing Meta glasses to school. The 2010s-style daily vlogs are back, but with a discrete, technical upgrade that makes it easier to exploit real people for views.

Meta glasses and other smart glasses are infiltrating schools. As kids put their smartphones in designated holding pouches on classroom walls, another form of technology is hiding in plain sight.

That’s what Futurism’s Maggie Harrison DuPre found when scrolling through TikTok.

She saw video after video of teenagers, mostly boys, using the technology to record their peers while they go about their day, with many students and even faculty members unaware they’re being recorded.

In one video reviewed by DuPre, a teen boy wearing Meta glasses was harassing a fellow student, asking for her Roblox.

She refuses and quickly walks past him, but the boy isn’t done. He begs her to “come back” and persistently asks her for her social media.

“Your LinkedIn, at least? Your Reddit? I know you have a Reddit,” Futurism reports.

Cybernews couldn’t find the original TikTok video, signaling that it has likely been removed from the platform.

However, we found a multitude of POV-style vlogs featuring young people in school settings, some of which border on harassment.

This is the new era of “Day in the Life” vlogs

While YouTube vlogging is still alive and kicking, it's become somewhat synonymous with heavily curated family content, which, from the outside looking in, appears harmonious, but has actually led YouTube stars to prison.

Instead, these POV Meta glasses videos are raw and choppy, giving the viewer a glimpse into the life of an American high school student in 2026.

The question is, why would boys be wearing glasses that can discreetly record audio and video, and are they really just filming their mundane everyday high school activities?

Cybernews managed to find one video from an account named “JOG_TROLL” which shows girls being approached by a teenager supposedly called Brian who is “rizzing upper classmen.”

“They ran away”

In a couple of videos, which are all about “rizzing” or flirting with girls, the person wearing the Meta glasses approaches young teens who seem uncomfortable.

We couldn’t verify the legitimacy of these videos or whether they were staged.

In one of the videos, a person approaches 2 girls sitting outside a school, and they immediately jump up and walk away.

The words on screen read “They ran away,” followed by a crying face emoji.

There’s an obvious trend within these videos. The majority of people filming are young men and teenage boys.

In her article, DuPre writes that Meta glasses, or smart glasses, capture users' poor behavior, which is “overwhelmingly directed at girls.”

This one vlog-style video shows a teen girl who likely doesn’t know she’s being filmed as she barges through, saying, “Move.”

To which the Meta glasses wearer replies, “What’s up your a** today?”

Record everything, hope something goes viral

The content found by Futurism journalists was called out as plain harassment and bullying, which was often filmed without the subjects’ knowledge or consent and would later be uploaded online to humiliate them.

This is highly likely, as such offensive content has saturated YouTube since at least 2008, with the Paul brothers (Jake and Logan Paul) among the world’s most outrageous YouTubers.

While it was more difficult to secretly film people back in the 2010s, they still did so with the intention of going viral.

These Meta glasses POV videos, while innocuous on the surface, highlight a potential and very significant danger – that the user may be intentionally filming 24/7 just waiting for a viral moment. niam