Are You Considered Cool?


Are you considered cool? or want to be the class clown, well here’s a challenge for you. Burst a chemically filled laundry detergent cleaner in your mouth that has many warnings on the fact that the chemicals are actually really dangerous and that any consumption could cause serious long lasting injuries, if that’s for you get on board with “Tide Pod Challenge”.

Since 2013, USCPSC have been warning Tide Pod users to make sure that the cleaning agent is stored where no young child or elderly  person can get their hands on them. This is because both of these age groups can see the pods to be a sweet lolly, especially the elderly suffering from Alzheimer’s or Dementia with more than 160 cases a year just for the elderly mistaking them for the sweets.

And yet with all the warnings from the company on the television, from social media, on the box the tide pods come in, from their parents and even just common knowledge these teenagers who voice that they are no longer children had the foolish thought to participate in this reckless and idiotic challenge.

And this is not the first time! There has been the “Cinnamon Challenge” where people consume as much cinnamon they can within 60 seconds without any water or liquid to wash it down. In most cases it would leave the person vomiting or to have a coughing fit. Another challenge that seems harmless but can be just as dangerous is the “Chubby Bunny Challenge”. You would stuff your face with as many marshmallows as possible and say “Chubby Bunny” after each marshmallow was added, this could also cause choking. These challenges are especially dangerous for younger children who are copying the viral challenges that they see on social media because they thought it would be fun.   

 “You’re really taking a chance — and to what end?” Alfred Aleguas, managing director of the Florida Poison Information Center in Tampa, Florida, said Friday. “It’s pretty foolish behavior.”

They videoed these reckless attempts to share to the world, to younger viewers who didn’t know any better, who even because of their age didn’t attempt the challenge. Since 2012 there has been 8 deaths of children under the age of 5 from consuming the detergent, not because they joined in on the foolish trend just simply because they were children and didn’t understand what the lolly looking package would do to them.

Social media can be an amazing thing; you can message people from the comfort of your own home, you don’t need to go to the trouble of writing the letter, picking out a nice stamp or taking it to the post office to be posted. However, with pros there’s always going to be a con and that con is that social media is the biggest culprit for this Tide Pod challenge getting to the wide lengths it has today. Teenagers are posting their videos and within seconds it’s seen around the world for others to watch and copy. Once it’s out there there’s no way of completely getting rid of the post, it’s the internet and there’s no going back.  

Like I said, if this is for you and you want your family to watch as your life is cut short from a simple challenge that you thought would make you cool, just remember that it was your decision to put them through that unimaginable pain of losing someone they care about and you can’t take it back.

How many more teenagers need to die over social media challenges for someone to do something?
Chloe Dickson

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