Mercer second year Liberal Arts major, Xylah Guerrier, is one among many local students who have discovered something odd on social media.
“I discovered it on Tiktok. It didn’t originally come up on my For You page, it came up on my friends and then they sent it. It was actually my old high school that got peed. Or got peed on. Yeah it was crazy, and then I saw it at like TCNJ and whatnot,” Guerrier says.
The trend of students peeing on college campuses and featuring the act on TikTok has spread nationwide and Mercer County has been no exception.
“I actually thought it was pretty funny because why are we walking up to schools and peeing on them, and, you know, recording it and stuff?” Guerrier said.
In a VOICE survey of 30 MCCC students, 63% said they know about the trend.
The earliest records of this trend can be traced back to late August of 2025, originating at a few East Coast university campuses. Since then, it has quickly spread across the nation, and Mercer County has been no exception.
TikTok user “lawrencenjpisser677,” a resident of Lawrence Township, amassed over 1,000 followers within a few short weeks by uploading videos of themself peeing on public spaces all around the community. The videos are typically 4-8 seconds long, featuring bleak audio as well as a clear indicator of location.
His counterpart, “ewing_pisser,” who also gained over 1,000 followers, leaned more towards educational spaces including The College of New Jersey, Ewing High School, and Fisher Middle School. The account has since been shut down.
Repeated attempts to contact both users for comment were unsuccessful.
TCNJ Associate Vice President of Public Safety Timothy Grant told The VOICE, “Yes, we’ve had it here.”
Grant says “We have over 300 cameras on campus,” he adds, “actually we picked [the student] up on one of the cameras.”
According to Mercer Professor Avery-Natale of sociology, there may be a variety of reasons people would do this.
Avery-Natale says there is a theory that suggests people sometimes do things to form a group identity, called symbolic interactionism.
He says, “I don’t know what the hell the identity you’re forming by peeing on a building is, but that it is somehow like ‘I’m part of this group. I am part of the group of people who are getting attention and doing this thing.’”
In some cases, it’s not actually clear if what the people are doing is peeing.
Grant at TCNJ says, “What we also found–and good luck to that perpetrator–was that he was actually using a water bottle.”
He continued, “Well, since it was apparently water in the water bottle, you know, it wasn’t even sort of criminal mischief…It wasn’t any crime.”
Crime or not, students are having a strong reaction to the peeing trend.
Mercer student Jayden Johnson says, “All that’s creating from this pissing thing is this animosity…‘cause no one knows who this guy is.” He adds, “I want to shut it down. I want to make sure they never make these videos again.”
Another student, Brian Lanza, who is an Automotive Technology major says, “Yeah, I love Mercer so much that I don’t want anything to happen to it. I’m like the Captain America for Mercer.”
MCCC’s security guards declined to comment on the trend or whether they are concerned our college will be next.
Professor Avery-Natale says, “You know, there’s that very, very old saying, like if everyone else jumped off a bridge would you too? And I think Tiktok shows us that a lot of people would.”
