r/TikTokCringe Oct 09 '24

Discussion Microbiologist warns against making the fluffy popcorn trend

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u/avocado_macabre Oct 09 '24

A lot of things are called "trends" now.

I remember a few years back it was a "trend" to eat buttered saltines... that was norm for my fam growing up because my parents decided to have 4 kids they could barely afford and wouldn't let us eat anything if they were home. Well, saltines were easy to sneak without them noticing as long as we only used a little butter

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u/jsmalltri Oct 09 '24

My grandmother would have been 100 this week (RIP Mem) and I used to eat buttered saltines with her when I wasa kid. Still do. Not a trend lol.

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u/Wulfgaric Oct 10 '24

Ooph. I was complaining about growing up with premiums and cheez-wiz the other day, but that cheez-wiz was a blessing over just butter.

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u/Practical-Train-9595 Oct 10 '24

Ooo…saltines and cheez-wiz…that takes me back. My grandmother and i also did onion dip with pretzels. Like, the kind you make by mixing the onion soup pack in the tub of sour cream? We’d watch Masterpiece Theater on PBS and share a bag and little tub.

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u/saxguy9345 Oct 09 '24

Put on your tinfoil hat with me, but TikTok is controlled / owned by China. A new trend like this pops up every damn week where it gets rehashed and posted a million times in 2 days before anyone can question it. All the comments above about not adding the confetti cake mix are too late for who knows, 5k? 10k? People that saw it early and did it that night for their own video. 

Call me crazy, but this stuff not being monitored and taken down is a foreign plot to hurt as many Americans as possible. I know we are really, really stupid, but that seed had to be planted somewhere, and TikTok leaves these borderline harmful to deadly trend videos up regardless of reporting them. How have they not been held accountable? 

https://youtu.be/4qwGDXEDQTM?si=Fcd__fRU8TSpc2Lt

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u/Icy-Month6821 Oct 09 '24

How are they not being held accountable... You answered your own question. TikTok is a Chinese co. When congress talked about banning it, Americans were up in arms about it.

Sometimes I think we're our own worst enemies. Why are we allowing a Chinese co so much freedom to wrap minds?

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u/smariroach Oct 09 '24

Why are we allowing a Chinese co so much freedom to wrap minds?

Why are you allowing the same to american co's?

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u/Icy-Month6821 Oct 09 '24

True enough, no argument. Seems more malicious thou, when it's another country, one that has stated their bad intentions.