https://twitter.com/MissKellieUK/status/953309545106952193
If you haven’t been keeping abreast of the newest dumb viral “challenge” going around, a small number of teens have been posting videos of themselves biting into Tide Pods on YouTube. This is really happening. Tide had to tell people to stop. Tide had to make a video with Rob Gronkowski telling people to stop. If Gronk is telling you something seems dumb, it’s extra super dumb.
Who could have guessed that The Onion would prove so prescient when they published a satirical article in 2015 (written by an imaginary child) with the title “So Help Me God, I’m Going To Eat One Of Those Multicolored Detergent Pods”? Then, last year, College Humor made a joke video about eating the pods. And now here we are. What a time to be alive.
Twitter has been making jokes about the Tide Pod Challenge, and there have been plenty of jokes made since the first time we rounded up a few.
Some of the tweets were kind of mindblowing:
Tide pods have killed more people than marijuana.
— 🤍✨ (@Atari_Jones) January 16, 2018
![](https://uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/pizza-rolls-are-just-spaghetti-flavored-tide-pods_tumblr.jpg?quality=100&w=650)
stop eating tide pods and start using them for their intended purpose: little pillows for tired action figures
— Dinosaur Dracula (@DinosaurDracula) January 16, 2018
You: tide pods
Me, an intellectual: pic.twitter.com/tDojm6kley
— nina (@NlNACOLADA) January 11, 2018
Others expressed confusion:
First they say doing a digestive cleanse is good.
Now they say eating Tide Pods is bad.
WHICH IS IT?
— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) January 15, 2018
[spits out tide pod]
"But if that was in my mouth…"
[cut to me placing a piping hot lasagna into my washing machine]— Fred Delicious 🍆 (@Fred_Delicious) January 16, 2018
https://twitter.com/barry/status/953626218125037569
Others are going to bust conspiracies wide open:
When u want all the delicous tide pods for urself pic.twitter.com/xsjYRaG55G
— PFT Commenter (@PFTCommenter) January 13, 2018
And people also spotted an opportunity to talk about how idiotic fads worked back in their day:
https://twitter.com/vornietom/status/951966794683527168
Tide Pods? When I was a kid we ate normal things like dog biscuits.
— Dan Regan (@DanRegan_Comedy) January 14, 2018
I grew up poor so we only died from eating generic detergent pods.
— Jason Mustian (@jasonmustian) January 13, 2018
Others were all in on this delicious(ly fatal) new trend:
bae: come over
me: i cant
bae: i have tide pods
me: pic.twitter.com/SRDkEahrCY— gary from teen mom (@garyfromteenmom) December 29, 2017
(leaves a romantic trail of tide pods to the bedroom)
— chuuch (@ch000ch) January 17, 2018
Don’t be a Tide Podcuck.
Drink straight out of bottle. pic.twitter.com/rXt94iLhaK
— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) January 16, 2018
https://twitter.com/KaylaBashe/status/953475737104912384
My neck,
My back,
My late night Tide Pod snack— Arby’s Provocateur (@SamGrittner) January 16, 2018
https://twitter.com/NifMuhammad/status/952250563168743424
Some people boiled it down to “Ugh. Millennials.”
Ugh. Now Millennials are wasting money by ordering avacado on their Tide Pods.
— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) January 16, 2018
https://twitter.com/marrowing/status/953470794427908096
2000 years ago:
god: i shall sacrifice my only son so that all may have eternal lifeToday:
god, watching us eat tide pods: jesus christ— chuuch (@ch000ch) January 17, 2018
seinfeld, 2008: jery get ipod
seinfeld, 2018: jery eat tide pod
— Seinfeld Current Day (@Seinfeld2000) January 16, 2018
At least with the Tide Pod Challenge kids are taking an interest in laundry.
— Dan Regan (@DanRegan_Comedy) January 14, 2018
https://twitter.com/SteveVaus/status/953065566020952064
Others boiled it down to “Ugh. Politics.”
trump became president the same year people started eating tide pods
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) January 15, 2018
https://twitter.com/LowkeyNerdy/status/953298499050885125
https://twitter.com/runolgarun/status/952800816296992768
How many Tide Pods would you eat to get him to stop being president
— Lauren Duca (@laurenduca) January 13, 2018
Some looked to the future:
2012: cinnamon challenge
2014: ice bucket challenge
2018: laundry pod challenge
2023: guillotine challenge— dan mentos (@DanMentos) January 13, 2018
as our world transforms into the one from "children of men" there's a good chance tide pods are our Quietus
— Desus MF Nice💯 (@desusnice) January 16, 2018
And some realized this is just the reality we live in now:
Aliens avoid our planet because it's necessary for us to be reminded not to eat laundry detergent
— FunWithKris&Brit (@KrisnBrit) January 17, 2018
“Tide Pods are now locked up. You’ll need to show proof of ownership of a washing machine and undergo a background check to buy any. Our #1 priority is the safety of our citizens. Also: here’s a free gun. The serial number is scratched off and it’s preloaded with ammo.” – America
— Arby’s Provocateur (@SamGrittner) January 16, 2018
https://twitter.com/pastor_bren/status/953454915262627840
I wonder if parents in shithole countries have to tell their idiot kids not to eat Tide laundry pods.
— Bob Phillips (@BobTheSuit) January 13, 2018