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Teens eat Tide pods on what's essentially a dare.
Only 86 teens ate Tide Pods, so why did the world erupt in moral panic?
Because our children being fucking dumb enough that 86 of them ate LAUNDRY DETERGENT is an issue.
I think the bigger problem is that adults focus on issues that are marketed to us than the issues that actually exist
Direct focus to a moral panic, no need to look at the real issues that could hit the bottom line.
Their grandparents used to chew on lead paint chips so lets not pretend this is new
Lead is sweet which makes this an unfair comparison
So is antifreeze and I don't remember the drink antifreeze challenge so idk about that. Not to mention the reason people chose tide pods was because of the sensory feeling they gave dissolving in your mouth, so it's a lot more similar than you make it out to be. Just a case of taste vs texture.
There have been multiple instances a while back of people in northern Canadian "dry" communities being poisoned from drinking antifreeze and pop/soda.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/spotlight-on-antifreeze-deaths-concerns-local-residents/article25473170/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/3rd-tuktoyaktuk-resident-medevaced-with-suspected-antifreeze-poisoning-1.3265783
"only"!?
Most of those occured after mainstream reporting. Usually it goes like this, some weird trend happens online, some real, some ironic, some making fun of said trend as if they were real, mainstream media picks up the story and signal boosts to the rest of the country, teens see the trend on clips of the news story and copies it, boom sudden epidemic of said trend. These trends, or memes suddenly propogate with great effect, not unlike a biological spread really.