 For some reason teenagers right now are doing this tide pod challenge essentially because the tide pods look like candy Well, I have something for you Because there's a rock that looks it's like orange yellow well salt really but Rocks are mostly silicone salt anyways. Let's try to get the color Just right. I shouldn't touch that and of course I've already touched that So it's a little cancer on the fingers anyways this stuff is Well geologists have known it as lopazite chemists especially the guys who like the IUPAC naming are gonna know it as potassium dichromate Looks like I need a little bit more of it woodworkers tend to use the older name dichromate of potash Or bicromate of potash. They're basically the same thing I'm going to go pour the Foam off these One of them has a little bit more. Oh, and I say I guess one makes a better latte. There we go for the most part These are now unrecognizable from each other and Yeah, I'm not really sure we're gonna go about this now because I sort of sort of forgot Sort of forgot which one was which Yeah, I basically have the same glass here and I looks like I've poured off about the same height It's kind of hoping the foam would help me out but there's actually just a bunch of pieces of sawdust in this one and It is a few larger chunks in this one, but I'm not really sure which would have came off in this In what order? Boy, that's looking really good though I mean look at that Russians think they're badass for doing the whole Russian roulette thing with their odds being one on six It's called. It's the lopazite challenge One and two chance I got the right one One and two chance fucking mouthwash in the eye That's probably the most toxic part of this whole thing Fuck that burns All right, so Those of you who actually know chemistry Know that that's not what the type of reaction you'd actually have after consuming that Chromium is going to do an immense amount of neurological damage and it's it's not going to present anything like that In fact, there are almost no toxins that present that way Hollywood has presented that kind of stuff for the same reason that I did it's very easy and visually stimulating But it's it's mostly bullshit One of these of course is actually immensely toxic, but there's a For those who aren't aware in these type of videos the you know prank Uh things especially along the the absolutely Ridiculous levels that uh, let's say like filthy Frank has pioneered There's the obvious safe one off to the side Uh And I'm gonna go Back inside get cleaned up and then talk a little bit about this because there's something that needs to be said about The idiots that are doing this plenty of other people have been saying other shit about that, but I still want to say Um, I give a few comments about the idiots who are doing these types of stupid fucking challenges As well as what stupid challenges were going on when I was in school But also What the hell have we done to society where brightly colored things which were Historically feared that was historically this warning sign I somehow become this. Ooh, that's that that that looks appealing because that Potassium dichromate is immensely toxic to the point of making lead look like child's play In case by some chance you were living under a rock or something the tide pod challenge is this idiotic thing that some people have been doing Recently, I'm a little late to the party on covering it But it was for setting up what I did before as well as doing a little bit of background research and on the stuff the tide pods which you know our White with the little orange and blue capsules also on them there's this Well, at least to me was an obvious joke About how they look like candy. They look like you could eat them and Obviously, you can't it's detergent. It doesn't matter how brightly colored your dish soap is you're not going to just like now But some people have been actually stupid enough to put these into their mouths and bite down and uh You've got mixed reactions. Some people I've been saying that oh, well the the teenagers are idiots. Just uh If it kills them just let it kill them. That's the darwin award and I I mostly agree with that But there's some stuff I want to touch on you have some people who are largely blaming the parents and That one is tricky uh Because I can see how it would be pretty quick to Assume that the parents didn't really teach the kids about what uh poisons are and you know, not to put them in your mouth Uh But then the fact that a lot of these people have made it to say 16 to 19 years old Without having ingested anything that's killed them yet tells me that they Probably were taught that and that this is caving to social pressures But then you know did the did the parents then do a good enough job teaching the kids not to cave to social pressures And can you even actually accomplish that? Yeah Some people have been really bitching out at tide pods uh with some ridiculous attempts at class action lawsuits and the like that aren't aren't going to stand up in court at all a few of them have actually been dismissed already and uh Gee thank you You're gonna go on just a little bit over. No, you're gonna do that there um What I was hoping to bring attention to is this absurd thing in marketing where We make things brightly colored even though tons of toxic things Throughout history and even in modern times are brightly colored naturally uh Well, I'm not really from these areas. I I'm not gonna comment on a huge amount because I don't want to be spreading misinformation, but When you look into like more tropical regions, it's very well Very well established that like frogs and even a lot of plants that are poisonous have really bright colors as this sort of warning sign they also happen to be you know poisonous or toxic but that that They have really bright colors Of course, that's obviously not a universal thing because when you look at say like desert regions But once with uh very poisonous snakes, you don't you don't actually see that um and then once you get into like Really organic stuff. They're almost all reliably white and may or may not be toxic So it's it's not super established, but it is sort of just this weird thing that uh That I've noticed Um, I'm not really sure what could be done about that um part of me Says like well just dye all the toxic stuff a certain color and then Don't use that color for other things Don't don't ever color candy that but that that doesn't really hold up all that well because Candies are usually dyed based on the fruit that they uh taste like and There's fruits of every color That really doesn't work out um Better labeling of things would make a huge difference And i'm not by any means saying that tide doesn't label their stuff Well, it's pretty apparent if you look at the packaging that it's bad for you Uh Less bright and colorful packaging, but then again, you're going to have um You're gonna have some people that don't want to listen to that and Then the whole thing Is fucked again so Yeah, my attitudes more or less just like They're dumb enough to actually believe this shit and I've got what's coming to them I Mentioned some of the stupid shit that uh happened while I was in school Um throughout most of it. It wasn't actually that bad Uh stupid things more than anything else things that when you really sat down and thought about it You could never actually accomplish, but that was sort of the that was sort of the joke about it Um like the saltine challenge where you tried to eat Six saltines at once without drinking anything It was horrible But you know, you know, unless you choke and that happens anytime that can can happen anytime where you're eating anything Uh, but unless you choke, there's no safety risk involving something like that But the senior year some something rather rather stupid originated the The choking challenge and it was the first time that in my school experiences that I've ever heard about uh, one of these What used to be just stupid joke challenges that actually became dangerous where, um Kids that have a friend choke them out and um The goal was to see how long you could go before you tapped out It's obviously obviously stupid but people did it People did it and uh, I I just find it really really hard to be sympathetic in these types of situations at all just because it's It's so fucking stupid like It's terrible as it sounds i'd rather have them Uh, maim or kill themselves at this point before they're off Say driving regularly or have the ability to buy firearms or do something that can uh, stupid with considerably higher consequences Because in the grand scheme of things all the stupid shit you can mess up Accidentally swallowing a part of a tide pod is uh A lot less malicious than the other things that could happen. I guess I should also explain, uh Uh There's clearly people who don't get it both young people who are actually falling for these Obvious jokes, but also older people who don't understand the jokes to begin with and uh pretty apparent tide Doesn't understand this at all There's this odd thing about my generation where the humor Largely comes from two two main things that You don't really see uh too much with others and that's um The combination of two things that basically have nothing to do with each other So laundry detergent and food As well as presenting one thing With such absurdity that it's obviously a joke, but it's the absurdity to the whole thing that is the joke That one the the absurd humor you can see kind of well, I mean, they're both absurd humor But the the one taken to an extreme you can kind of see with some medians of the previous generation as well but uh It must have to do with something from we were raised up when we when we were raised I have some ideas about it, but i'm not i'm not too certain yet but you know presents in such absurdities like Loving things that are absolutely terrible um You know a rather famous youtuber now uh John Tron basically did tons of that where he was looking doing Reviews of sorts Obvious bootleg games How how terrible they were was funny Uh, well then you see other other absurd combinations of things like the Ugandan knuckles which is terrible, but it's the um It's how out of place and absurd it is that what makes it funny But you see all sorts of these things where you have two things that are combined that are really not supposed to be and um the tide pods and food was exactly that The joke was that they look like candy so start presenting them as food because isn't it absurd how they look like candy I don't know how Anyone could have thought that oh, hey that actually seems like a good idea, but It happened apparently well the thing why I say tide really doesn't didn't understand the um They put on an ad with uh some big football guy About how uh These are tide pods. These are for doing your laundry. These are not for eating and If you're about my age, you know exactly what would have started to happen Because the the first obvious way to fuck with that is to switch the word order Audio editing is not hard to do at all And so that quickly became these are tide pods. These are for eating not doing laundry You got to see this kind of shit coming You've got to but Now that then did it took off it was basically the Streisand effect and um Just sort of amazes me how you can have these absolutely massive companies Rise up without really having a good grasp of human behavior, which is interesting because marketing is all about pandering to human behavior, but they um Generational differences, I guess they they failed hardcore Oh one thing I'd like to address just because there's some certain people saying this the um The locking up of tide pods. That's not in response to this that happened for well before For whatever reason Laundry detergent, especially the tide pods are a high theft item I don't know why But they were locked up well before this just because it's a high theft item I don't get it