Comment on Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible
profdc9@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Maybe breaking away from the hive mind and eating fewer tide pods would be good for the public.
Comment on Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible
profdc9@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Maybe breaking away from the hive mind and eating fewer tide pods would be good for the public.
drdabbles@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Turns out the whole tide pod thing was complete fiction, and elderly people are the ones eating them a majority of the time according to poison control data. Go figure. Bored middle-aged people on TV trying to tell everyone what idiots the youngs are these days.
vector_zero@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Complete fiction” is a bit of a stretch, but it was grossly exaggerated how many kids ate the danger candy.
Apparently Tide’s marketing team went through many iterations on the pods, and they intentionally made them look like enticing treats. Probably not the smartest on their part either.
drdabbles@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No, I’m pretty sure complete fiction is exactly what it was. Again, confused elderly people vastly outnumbered every other group of people that were eating Tide pods. Meanwhile, every news outlet was talking about it as though it was some epidemic sweeping the world. It was bullshit, sensationalization to get people to click.
vector_zero@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So you’re admitting that people were eating tide pods, which makes it not, as you would say, “complete fiction”.