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vector_zero@lemmy.world 8 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 8 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 8 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 8 months ago
Elderly people, yes. Like I said initially. Swing and a miss.