Viral

Twitter Still Can’t Stop Joking About Eating Tide Pods

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:

Via Nyagga

Others expressed confusion:

https://twitter.com/barry/status/953626218125037569

Others are going to bust conspiracies wide open:

And people also spotted an opportunity to talk about how idiotic fads worked back in their day:

https://twitter.com/vornietom/status/951966794683527168

Others were all in on this delicious(ly fatal) new trend:

https://twitter.com/KaylaBashe/status/953475737104912384

https://twitter.com/NifMuhammad/status/952250563168743424

Some people boiled it down to “Ugh. Millennials.”

https://twitter.com/marrowing/status/953470794427908096

https://twitter.com/SteveVaus/status/953065566020952064

Others boiled it down to “Ugh. Politics.”

https://twitter.com/LowkeyNerdy/status/953298499050885125

https://twitter.com/runolgarun/status/952800816296992768

Some looked to the future:

And some realized this is just the reality we live in now:

https://twitter.com/pastor_bren/status/953454915262627840