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What should Tide PODs be used for? DOING LAUNDRY. Nothing else.

Eating a Tide POD is a BAD IDEA, and we asked our friend @robgronkowski to help explain.

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A bizarre new trend dubbed the “Tide Pod Challenge” is gaining popularity among teens on social media — and doctors say it could land them in the emergency room.

According to the American Association of Poison Control Centers, in the first month of 2018 alone, at least 86 cases of intentional misuse of the laundry packets were reported among teenagers. In 2017, there were only 53 in total.

The challenge involves people popping the small laundry detergent pacs and posting videos of themselves chewing and gagging on the oozing product online.

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How did Tide Pod eating go viral? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world.

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How did Tide Pod eating go viral? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world.

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Tide Pods For Breakfast

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If you've ever done laundry, you've probably seen those brightly colored orange and blue Tide detergent pods. And without knowing what they are, it's pretty easy to mistake the pods as some kind of food.

Social media thought the same thing, and as a result memes have been popping up all over the internet of people eating the pods or using them as toppings on things like pizza.

The perfect meal. Retweet if you would eat this. #tidepods #tidepod pic.twitter.com/OpsPJkF6eV
- Tide Pod memes (@Tidepodmemes) January 6, 2018

#imagine cooking up brick oven tide pod pizza with chef gyu😋🍕😌 pic.twitter.com/iVo4NcTJxT
- bad svt imagines (@badsvtimagines) January 1, 2018

This is the golden tide pod, Retweet or you will have bad luck all of 2018, god is watching. pic.twitter.com/UxA9TZuMa2
- Tide Pods (@OGTidePods) January 3, 2018

The YouTube channel College Humor even went so far as to parody social media's fascination with the pods by having one of their cast members debate over eating one.

But there's just one problem: those pods are poisonous and incredibly dangerous to the human body if consumed. But that hasn't stopped the "Tide Pod Challenge," from becoming a meme, where people actually dare to eat one of the pods.

Tide even went so far as to put out a statement regarding the pods.

"Our laundry pacs are a highly concentrated detergent meant to clean clothes, and they're used safely in millions of households every day," the statement read. "They should be only used to clean clothes and kept up, closed and away from children.

"We have seen no indication of an increase of cases seeking medical treatment amongst infants and teenagers associated with the recent uptick in social media conversation or in consumer calls."

However, if you are so tempted by the colorful pods, there is an alternative that's less hazardous. Tumblr user "sometimessmarmy" posted a recipe that makes treats resembling the pods that are made mostly of gelatin rather than detergent.

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Teens Compete in 'Tide Pod Challenge' by Eating Laundry Detergent

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If you've ever done laundry, you've probably seen those brightly colored orange and blue Tide detergent pods. And without knowing what they are, it's pretty easy to mistake the pods as some kind of food.Social media thought the same thing, and as a result memes have been popping up all over the [...]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZK6qgh6BBA

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Little kid with more common sense than most people...

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Little kid with more common sense than most people...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95512G-O580

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Locked detergent

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What happens to the BODY when you eat a tide pod?????

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What happens to the BODY when you eat a tide pod?????

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This Is What Happens To Your Body When You Eat A Tide Pod - Stop Eating Tide Pods

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Even Poppy is talking about tide pods!!!

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Even Poppy is talking about tide pods!!!

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Click me!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qG4mS3G0K0

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If you swallow the detergent, it can cause burns to the esophagus and stomach, as well as gastrointestinal distress.

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People are making Edible Tide Pods with frosting and such...

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People are making Edible Tide Pods with frosting and such...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79kbXSmAvBQ

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Tide PODS® was launched in 2012. Now consumers don’t need to worry about dosing: one little pac is all that’s needed. A single pac can clean, fight stains and brighten with no pouring or spills.

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Are people really eating Tide Pods? Doctors warn parents about dangerous ‘Tide Pod Challenge’

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Are people really eating Tide Pods? Doctors warn parents about dangerous ‘Tide Pod Challenge’

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This is a tide pod

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How did Tide Pod eating go viral? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world.
Answer by Emmad Mazhari, Product Designer, on Quora:
This story is long and very weird.

In 2012, P&G released a new product, Tide Pods, that were meant to make doing laundry easier. Following the launch of the product, poison control saw an increase in calls by children eating Tide Pods [1]. This should make us confront two truths about the world:

1. Tide Pods look like candy(delicious candy at that). The bright colors, shapes, texture and weight all resemble that of a 'bite-sized' snack. It's weird to say this all but it's the truth. It's why kids ate this and why many people I know (myself included) joked about eating these when they first came out - something in the human brain makes Tide Pods look enticing.

2. Tide Pods are poisonousand you definitely shouldnoteat them.

When in 2012 Tide Pods launched, these jokes about people eating them existed - but in small niches and never spoken about publicly because admittedly it is very weird. For a few years this persisted until the Onion wrote a piece in late 2015 about a child vowing to eat Tide Pods, titled: So Help Me God, I'm Going To Eat One Of Those Multicolored Detergent Pods. This, as far as I can tell, was the first major public point of acknowledgment that Tide Pod eating is a thought in many people's minds.

This allowed the idea to kind of come alive on the internet and many small groups started joking about eating Tide Pods, particularly on Twitter and Tumblr. In mid 2017 CollegeHumor made a video about the same topic [2].

I'm not sure where the actual inflection point was, but at some point this joke started becoming super mainstream. It happened sometime in December of 2017 where the biggest accounts from 'weird twitter' joked about the meme, tan being one of the biggest ones.

At some point this joke bled over from weird twitter to mainstream twitter, with people joking about eating Tide Pods (sometime in late December).

This bled over into YouTube, where challenge videos have become a weird trope of doing the craziest thing to get views. A small YouTuber realized that there was an opportunity to capitalize on this trend by actually eating Tide Pods (though I think this was ironically) and on January 7th, 2018 TheAaronSwan669 [3] made the first version of the Tide Pod Challenge. This gained a bit of traction and other YouTubers started joining the trend and doing the Tide Pod Challenge. Many of these YouTubers have audiences that are kids/teenagers who I think did not get the ironic nature of this trend and the fact that YouTubers were doing this for views - and decided to do the Tide Pod Challenge themselves at home. This was where the challenge really went mainstream when news outlets were picking up on the trend (as some kids did go to the hospital because of this, though I'm pretty sure the number is not as large as morning shows make it out to be).

The next iteration of this, which we're currently in the middle of, is making foods look like Tide Pods. Some examples of which are a pizzeria in in Brooklyn (of course).

As far as I can tell this trend is on the downwards slope right now, the peak being the media's coverage of it.
Footnotes
[1]Laundry Detergent Pods | Health Hazard - Consumer Reports

[2]Don't Eat the Laundry Pods. (Seriously. They're Poison.)

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The Strange Story Of How Tide Pod Eating Went Viral

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First, it was the "gallon challenge" and the "cinnamon challenge."

Then some teenagers started playing the "bath-salt challenge."

They have dared each other to pour salt in their hands and hold ice till it burns, douse themselves in rubbing alcohol and set themselves ablaze, and throw boiling water on unsuspecting peers.

Now videos circulating on social media are showing kids biting into brightly colored liquid laundry detergent packets. Or cooking them in frying pans, then chewing them up before spewing the soap from their mouths.

Experts say the game, dubbed the "Tide pod challenge," is dangerous.

"You're really taking a chance - and to what end?" Alfred Aleguas, managing director of the Florida Poison Information Center in Tampa, told The Washington Post last week. "It's pretty foolish behavior."

On Wednesday, YouTube said it would "work to quickly remove flagged videos that violate our policies," spokeswoman Jessica Mason said in a statement.

"YouTube's Community Guidelines prohibit content that's intended to encourage dangerous activities that have an inherent risk of physical harm."

It's not certain how the Tide pod fad got started.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a warning to parents several years ago about the liquid laundry detergent packets. The agency said the capsules - which are colorful, squishy and smell good - are attractive to young children but contain "highly concentrated, toxic detergent" that can cause harm.

In 2015, the Onion published a satirical op-ed from the perspective of a toddler who wanted to eat them.

At some point, the pods became alluring to older children. Last year, College Humor published a video titled " Don't Eat the Laundry Pods. (Seriously. They're Poison.)." It showed a college student researching the dangers associated with exposure to the packets, then devouring them. He ended up on an ambulance stretcher.

One expert conceded that young children are inclined to explore but was surprised at the number of older children and teenagers who are putting the packets in their mouths.

Last year, U.S. poison control centers received reports of more than 10,500 children younger than 5 who were exposed to the capsules. The same year, nearly 220 teens were reportedly exposed, and about 25 percent of those cases were intentional, according to data from the American Association of Poison Control Centers.

So far in 2018, there have been 37 reported cases among teenagers - half of them intentional, according to the data.

"A lot of people were just saying how stupid I was or how - why would I be willing to do that?" 19-year-old Marc Pagan, who said he was dared to do it, told CBS News last week. "No one should be putting anything like that in their mouths, you know?"

Children who have been exposed to the capsules have been hospitalized with vomiting, breathing difficulties and loss of consciousness. And the consequences may be much worse. Since 2012, eight fatalities have been reported among children 5 and younger, according to the American Association of Poison Control Centers.

Aleguas, Florida Poison Information Center, said that as with nearly any substance, "the dose makes the poison."

The laundry detergent packets pose two potential problems, he said. Children and teens can aspirate on the liquid by inhaling it into their lungs, or they can become ill by ingesting it - experiencing a change in blood pressure and heart rate, losing consciousness or having seizures.

And because many teens may not have had the need for a thorough physical exam, Aleguas said, some may not know they have underlying medical conditions, such as asthma, that could put them at a higher risk for complications.

Tide's parent company, Procter & Gamble, said in a statement that it is "deeply concerned about conversations related to intentional and improper use of liquid laundry pacs."

"Laundry pacs are made to clean clothes," Proctor & Gamble spokeswoman Petra Renck said in the statement. "They should not be played with, whatever the circumstance, even if meant as a joke. Like all household cleaning products, they must be used properly and stored safely."

In response to nationwide headlines late last week about the "Tide pod challenge," the company released a public service announcement on social media, featuring the New England Patriots' Rob Gronkowski discouraging people from playing around the laundry detergent packets.

"What should Tide PODs be used for? DOING LAUNDRY. Nothing else," the company said on social media. "Eating a Tide POD is a BAD IDEA, and we asked our friend @robgronkowski to help explain."

To report exposure to laundry detergent pods, call the national poison hotline at 1-800-222-1222 or text POISON to 797979 to save the number on your phone.

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Teens are daring each other to eat Tide pods. We don't need to tell you that's a bad idea.

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First, it was the "gallon challenge" and the "cinnamon challenge." Then some teenagers started playing the "bath-salt challenge." They have dared each other to pour salt in their hands and hold ice till it burns, douse themselves in rubbing alcohol and set themselves ablaze, and throw boiling water on unsuspecting peers.

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Almost 100 People Have Called Poison Control for Eating Tide Pods This Year

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Almost 100 People Have Called Poison Control for Eating Tide Pods This Year

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