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Look at what yall mother fuckers did. Now my dad is probably gonna ask me if im eating fucking detergent to be cool and im gonna have to say “no Dad im not that fucking stupid” fuck yall.

Not to be rude but this isn’t caused by memes on tungl.hell its caused by the “challenge” trend on YouTube and there’s a new one every few months, always dangerous. Shit, kids have been challenging each other to do dangerous shit before we were able to record it.

It’s peer pressure mixed with a desire for attention and shit like that gets views. It’s bad, it’s dangerous, but don’t spread misinformation and put blame where it shouldn’t be bc I guarantee you 6 months from now there will be another horrifying and dangerous challenge on YouTube.

The concept of doing something dangerous for views and because you’ve been “challenged” by peers needs to be addressed in a serious way, so don’t pawn it off on silly memes and forget about the issue later.

Like, I’m not joking,

YouTube challenges like the cinnamon one sound more innocent but “dry cinnamon coats the throat and mouth, which can lead to gagging, vomiting and inhalation of the powder into the lungs. Between January and March 2012, U.S. poison control centers received more than 120 emergency calls related to the “game.” Some suffered lung scarring, ephysema, and — in one case — a collapsed lung.” (source)

Salt and ice challenge is another that sounds more innocent, but “when combined with salt, ice actually becomes colder than the standard freezing temperature for water, exposing the body to extreme cold. Several participants, one as young as 12, sustained second- and third-degree burns; amputation is also a risk.” (source)

Kylie Jenner Lip challenge sounds bad and is bad. It “involves grabbing a shot glass and putting your lips inside it and then sucking as hard as you can. It artificially plumps your lips and the results are startling and dangerous. Experts say the shot glass can break under the pressure, resulting in broken blood vessels, requiring stitches, and other issues when undergoing this challenge.” (source)

The choking challenge, obviously very dangerous. “To get a high or faint, kids either choke other kids, press hard on their chests, or hyperventilate. Obviously, this is very risky, and it has resulted in death.” (source)

Car surfing challenge, also obviously dangerous. “ In this challenge, a teen “surfs” on the roof, bumper, or hood of a car. This game has led to multiple deaths and many horrible injuries.” (source)

The eyeballing challenge, you guessed it, dangerous. “Teens take a shot of hard liquor…into their eye socket. This can cause cornea scarring, swelling, irritation, and plenty of other issues.” (source) Also see “butt chugging” which is very similar.

And the fire challenge where “teens put flammable liquid on themselves and then light a match. Hazards are obvious and range from serious second and third-degree burns, all the way up to death.” (source)

I mean, shit, did you hear about the Blue Whale Challenge? “ Over the course of 50 days, an anonymous “administrator” assigns self-harm tasks, like cutting, until the 50th day, when the participant is supposed to commit suicide. It is rumored to have begun in Russia, and there were reports that suicides were tied to the trend, but those are unverified and likely not true. Apps related to the Blue Whale Challenge were said to appear and were then removed. The biggest concern is teens who are at risk and may be susceptible to trends and media about suicide, because even if the challenge began as an isolated incident or hoax, it could become real.” (source)

Be careful with the links, some of them show graphic injuries.

These aren’t isolated incidents, these pop up routinely. These are just a small sampling gathered from the first 3 articles that come up when you google “dangerous youtube challenges” and it’s not hard to find for yourself. I remember these being popular, knew people who did them.

Like, I’m not trying to be an asshole, but the tide pod challenge is part of a larger, specific problem that deserves to be addressed and to be honest its irresponsible to suggest that “forbidden fruit” memes have led kids to do this on their own. 

It’s like the 100th post I’ve seen saying, “way to go guys, your meme broke the kids! they think the pods are ok to eat!” These kids aren’t stupid, they know tide pods are dangerous to eat. It says so on the box, and it’s common sense. But their brains are still developing and their risk/reward ratio is skewed and the possibility of getting views and subscriptions to them IS WORTH THE RISK. Additionally, being bullied for not trying it seems WORSE than eating the pod. No teen wants to seem lame, and you’ll do things you don’t want to if it makes you cooler or everyone else is.

Like the YouTube “challenge” trend is something that needs to be discussed and addressed and prevented, and pinning it on silly memes and moving on with your life won’t help any kids.

When I was in primary school (we’re talking before the internet was much of a thing, like, porn took hours to buffer and Facebook didn’t exist), there was an assembly because the kids in the year above me (I think it was when I’d been put up a year, so they were two years older than me) were engaging in what would now be called the “break your own chin challenge”. Yeah, that’s what it sounds like - purposefully squeeze, compress, punch, or otherwise pressure your chin until it broke. Mostly it just resulted in bad bruising, cuts, but a few kids succeeded - bear in mind, this wasn’t a “get out of school with self-injury” thing, they took as little time off as possible - it was a status symbol, like, a bloodied and swollen chin earned you congratulations and respect amongst your peers, a display of strength. These kids were like seven or eight.

There was also the holding your hand in a bunsen burner flame for as long as you could and the fucking about with the DT equipment stuff in secondary school.

Like the other person said, these people know that the stuff that they’re doing is dangerous - that’s part of the point. Maybe they haven’t yet grown to value their health or experienced enough pain to know that it’s not worth the fickle approval of other kids, maybe it’s because (as said above) they haven’t yet developed enough to accurately assess risk and reward, but either way they’re not doing it out of ignorance. There’s peer pressure, there’s doing wacky shit for a laugh, there’s the perceived promise of increased popularity or “cred” - whatever reasoning they have, “this shit could kill you” actually seems to increase their desire to do it rather than shrink it, I think because “I could’ve died” sounds pretty badass to them.

But yeah, I wouldn’t even blame YouTube - kids have been saying “I bet you can’t jump the canal” “I bet you can’t hold your hand over the lighter longer than me” “I bet you can’t down this entire vodka” at least since my parents’ parents were kids. All YouTube and Twitter and memes have done is expose it to a wider audience, thus increasing the pool of people doing each “challenge”, thus increasing the likelihood that somebody is going to end up getting thoroughly fucked by it.

But whether it’s a teacher in an assembly or a newspaper article, all those kids do is sit there murmuring amongst themselves about how the adults always exaggerate, how the adults don’t get it, how the adults don’t have any balls - you can’t convince a group of brats with their own social rules and hierarchies and ideas about fun that not breaking your chin is the “cool” and enjoyable thing to do; you can’t get it through their heads that the “cred” that they earn or fun that they have by injuring themselves is fleeting and will be overshadowed by their lifelong regret as they despise the scars and forget the names of everybody that they went to school with.

This is coming from the guy who could hold his hand in the flame longer than anyone because he couldn’t feel heat or pain properly.

Oh yeah, I engaged in this shit. I watched my friends drunkenly punch each other to see who could leave the biggest bruise. (Thankfully, I was never stupid enough to break my own chin.)

We didn’t think of it at depth, it was just fun. I think that’s why it’s so hard to explain to them why it’s not worth it - they’re not self-critiquing and observing all of the complexities of their thought processes, they’re not really developed enough for that kind of thinking, it’s just “this is fun”, “this is cool”, “everybody else did it and they’re all fine”.

I think we really need to address how we talk to kids about this stuff, because at the moment nobody seems to be hitting their “don’t do this” buttons, we’re just the adults who don’t get it and try to ruin all of the fun. Do any of you remember being a teen and hearing some grown-up tell you that “the kids who smoke aren’t cool, they’re just ruining their lungs” or “those people on the YouTube aren’t clever or cool”, and you just sat there like “uh huh, well, with all due respect, you are a fucking loser”? Does anyone remember the peer pressure talks and “don’t do drugs” ads that were nothing but patronizing, old nerds trying to tell you how to live your life? Well, we’re those loser, grown-up, patronizing, old nerds now.

Even the words “peer pressure” sounded patronizing - kids thought “I decided to do this, I want to, they’re not forcing me”. Like I said, they didn’t think about or understand the complexities in that way.

TL;DR - Kids have been doing this shit forever, they think it’s fun, they’re not really thinking complexly about this, and when we tell them not to do it they just think that we’re boring, controlling, old buzzkills.

~ Vape

This is why you all parents out there need to give your kids attention

this is why you all
parents out there need to give
your kids attention

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