I knew young girls doing this, around 1990, maybe it bears some relationship to the needle thing we used to do when I was growing up. You catch the first few layers of skin, and stick the needle through so it hangs on you but no blood, blood is just an added dimension,
Yes, I remember this from junior high in 1990, also in high school and even people I knew in college. There's nothing new about cutting. Only new awareness and perhaps the Internet has made a few more troubled kids go down that route.
Yup, I did that too. Then tore out the needles. And the lighting the match and blowing it out and holding it to the back of the hand.