Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout
dosaki@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoBonesmashing?! Just when I thought people couldn’t get any stupider.
Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout
dosaki@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoBonesmashing?! Just when I thought people couldn’t get any stupider.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You get this a joke?
Children were never eating tide pods either.
mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Yes they were. Because some people really are that dumb.
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.
Taldan@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Out of tens of millions of children, that’s nothing. It was pure fear mongering
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
It’s both fear mongering and a problem. I imagine there are a lot more unreported cases, since teens are especially unlikely to ask for help with something like this. On the other hand, it was used as an excuse to attack TikTok, which is stupid because the similar things happen on other platforms and happened before everyone was on social media. Kids will do stupid things as long as peer pressure is a thing.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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.
mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
How does one unintentionally eat a tide pod? So you tell the guy when you’re checking in at the ER “Homie and I were just playing catch with a tide pod and I was yelling at cousin Mabel to get off the dang roof and it just dropped into my mouth and I swallowed. It was a one in a million shot doc. One in a million.”
More likely they did it intentionally and didn’t want to admit to it to avoid embarrassment. That or one of their dumb buddies thought it’d be funny based on some Tiktok they saw so they dropped one into someone’s bowl of Doritos.
Either way all I was doing was correcting a false statement you made about children never eating tide pods. Because they surely did.
blarghly@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Speaking of rainbow parties - that was actually a great idea. How come we never do that?
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
I could support a few of these
Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks 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!
Auth@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Well you can’t stop everyone from being foolish. Before this they copied stuff on tv.
Auth@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Thats true
nthavoc@lemmy.today 4 weeks 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.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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.
nthavoc@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
The point of the thread was for the influencers to fucking go and get a real job because they’re just rotting brains anyway. It started with tide pods and it’s grown into the exact thing you just stated. All that manosphere bullshit for example. You don’t think all those podcasts, Twitch, and whatever the fuck else today’s teenagers could get their hands on had any influence whatsoever from from all these dipshit people? We were all fucking teenagers so get off that “BRO I WAS A FUCKING TEACHER” high horse. It’s just worse now because they’re constantly bombarded by stupid fucking ideas. Welcome to the failure of the education system! Sorry you had to eat shit daily to find out I guess!
Notyou@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks 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
eattasted and spit out a tide pod. They ended up going home early.gian@lemmy.grys.it 4 weeks ago
Somewaht true, back at the time we had not tide pods.
But we did a lot of stupid shit even without social media.