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mysticpickle@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• dosaki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Bonesmashing?! Just when I thought people couldn’t get any stupider.

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  • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You get this a joke?

    Children were never eating tide pods either.

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    • mysticpickle@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Children were never eating tide pods either

      Yes they were. Because some people really are that dumb.

      The same year, nearly 220 teens were reportedly exposed, and about 25 percent of those cases were intentional, according to data from the American Association of Poison Control Centers.

      So far in 2018, there have been 37 reported cases among teenagers — half of them intentional, according to the data.

      washingtonpost.com/…/teens-are-daring-each-other-…

      And that’s just reported numbers for teenagers. I can almost guarantee you the number of idiots that ate one and didn’t know how to call poison control is much higher.

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      • Taldan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Out of tens of millions of children, that’s nothing. It was pure fear mongering

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      • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Did you see the part where only half of those ingestions were intentional?

        You would be freaking out about rainbow parties and snap bracelets in the 90s.

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    • Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You don’t understand, kids are really summoning satan with their dungeons and dragons books, and every grown up should be very threatened about it!

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    • Auth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Like all horrible male “beauty trends” it comes from looksmaxxing forums where it was a joke but the people were highly autistic and actually did it. The same thing happens when it gets to tiktok. A bunch of people post about it knowing its a joke and people who struggle to understand its a joke get sucked in.

      To “normal” people its like yeah obviously this is stupid, but to someone whos extremely socially inept they view it as a real path to looking like that. I’ve not met someone who has done this one exactly but ive met people who have done insanely destructive things because of what they saw on the internet.

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      • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Well you can’t stop everyone from being foolish. Before this they copied stuff on tv.

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    • nthavoc@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Just go hide back under your rock. Next thing you’ll say is that kids are absolutely safe minded individuals that stop and think about their safety and the safety of others when see they something that intrigues them.

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      • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Bro - I was literally a fucking teacher during the peak of that moral panic. I spend more time every day with teenagers than half of you on this thread do. Every kid knew it was a fucking joke. A handful of children actually did it on purpose, and like every moral outrage/hysteria it became “teens are doing this wild crazy thing!”

        Yes, teenagers do dumb fucking shit all of the time. It’s not the shit the media picks up on for the viral clicks.

        The real shit teens are actually doing is vaping shady carts and creating massive group chats to bully each other with naked pictures. But that doesn’t sell the same kinds of ad impressions as “there’s a stupid TikTok video that when viral so we are going to assume this is a massive regular thing that hundreds of children are doing.” Talking about those issues involves parents having to, you know, parent but instead it’s gotta be about stupid shit.

        The real “hiding under a rock” is being distracted by the newest stupid TikTok video instead of dealing with the things teenagers actually do.

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    • Notyou@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well maybe they weren’t at first. Just like flat earthers and bird aren’t real started as jokes. People started seeing and acting. My niblings had a kid in their high school eat tasted and spit out a tide pod. They ended up going home early.

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    • gian@lemmy.grys.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Children were never eating tide pods either.

      Somewaht true, back at the time we had not tide pods.

      But we did a lot of stupid shit even without social media.

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