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Tide pods thing was a failure of our current information systems.

Teens were joking about eating tidepods. The MSM news heard the joke and reported it as factual, and only after the news reported it as factual did people actually eat them.



Teens do not listen to or watch msm in the first place.

It's almost like it was shared on Reddit or TikTok and that combined with what I mentioned before about teens seeing other teens do it, made it viral.

Should young popular influencers be held accountable? Because I could go for that.




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