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drdabbles@lemmy.world 11 months agoTurns 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
So you’re admitting that people were eating tide pods, which makes it not, as you would say, “complete fiction”.
drdabbles@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Elderly people, yes. Like I said initially. Swing and a miss.