Tide Pod Challenge: How Can We Effectively Protect Teens?

[Risottia]

how can we effectively protect teens and adolescents from harming themselves?

We just teach them how to read and to recognise hazard symbols. Detergents such as pods are labelled very clearly as dangerous if ingested.
If they insist on doing it, too bad for them. Natural selection at work.

(By the way, adolescents are included into the "teen" set, I guess).

[Risottia]

I think this is the first case, that I know of, where people are willing to poison themselves for social validation on a widespread scale.

There was one where the kids were setting themselves on fire, too.

Blame Jan Palach.

[Ifreann]

Why is this a thing? Why the heck do American teenagers do weird challenges like these? Is this just overblown media hysteria as usual?

Are you really unfamiliar with the notion of teenagers doing stupid things to impress their friends?

[The Empire of Pretantia]

That's not the definition of social darwinism. That's the definition of "Wow, what sort of dumbass takes such an obvious joke seriously?"

Nice try calling me a social darwinist though.

I am pleased when I hit the target, thanks.

You didn't hit the target though. You failed miserably.

[Minoa]

More Tide Pod-chan.

I thought names of moe anthropomorphisms usually end with tan, not chan.

But in all seriousness, this is a new low for YouTube in terms of creators jumping on the so-called craze that is basically dicing with death.

[The Empire of Pretantia]

More Tide Pod-chan.

I thought names of moe anthropomorphisms usually end with tan, not chan.

Literally doesn't matter.

[Ifreann]

I thought names of moe anthropomorphisms usually end with tan, not chan.

Literally doesn't matter.

Doesn't matter? What kind of weeaboo are you?

[Deulia]

By banning these kinds of degenerate filth from the internet.

[Kenmoria]

By banning these kinds of degenerate filth from the internet.

Hopefully good parenting could stop the idiotic actions of these children without resorting to banning the videos entirely.

[Reploid Productions]

Heard on the morning news that Youtube is apparently going to be removing videos showing the Tide Pod challenge, so.... step in the right direction, I guess?

[The Flutterlands]

Heard on the morning news that Youtube is apparently going to be removing videos showing the Tide Pod challenge, so.... step in the right direction, I guess?

Yeah that is censorship I can get behind...

[Aillyria]

Humanity gets more idiotic by the day it wouod seem. Hopefully all the retards who participate in this challenge get sick, maybe that'll get it through their thick skulls that laundry pods aren't edible.

[Topoliani]

Humanity gets more idiotic by the day it wouod seem. Hopefully all the retards who participate in this challenge get sick, maybe that'll get it through their thick skulls that laundry pods aren't edible.

It's not a matter of they don't know it's not edible, they know. It's an issue of peer pressure. The situation boils down to the "If all your friends were jumping off a cliff/if your friends told you, would you?"

[Wallenburg]

You can't assume that teenagers know this stuff. Hell, I would not be surprised if tens or even a hundred thousand American adults do not know eating tide pods can kill you.

Given we have a literacy rate of 99% and basic logic dictates not eating things that are non-food, that's a bit of stretch. If we're assuming teenagers are this dumb, nevermind adults, than we've got a whole lot bigger issues to deal with.

A quarter of Americans believe the sun orbits the earth. It isn't an assumption that people are this dumb, it's a fact.]

for gods sake tide, just make the damn things nontoxic

Yes, and let's just make gas stoves not dangerously hot.

[The Parkus Empire]

Take away their internet except at the library, school, etc. or at home while a parent is watching. At least do notet them have computers in their own rooms.

[Kenmoria]

Humanity gets more idiotic by the day it wouod seem. Hopefully all the retards who participate in this challenge get sick, maybe that'll get it through their thick skulls that laundry pods aren't edible.

This challenge seems only to prove that maybe some teenagers just cannot handle being on the internet. I'm not saying we remove wifi from the world but there has to be something wrong with the education system if today's youth drink toxic materials for views.

[Ifreann]

Humanity gets more idiotic by the day it wouod seem. Hopefully all the retards who participate in this challenge get sick, maybe that'll get it through their thick skulls that laundry pods aren't edible.

This challenge seems only to prove that maybe some teenagers just cannot handle being on the internet. I'm not saying we remove wifi from the world but there has to be something wrong with the education system if today's youth drink toxic materials for views.

Tell me, in what era of history do you think it was unheard of for kids to do stupid things to impress their friends?

[Fartsniffage]

This challenge seems only to prove that maybe some teenagers just cannot handle being on the internet. I'm not saying we remove wifi from the world but there has to be something wrong with the education system if today's youth drink toxic materials for views.

Tell me, in what era of history do you think it was unheard of for kids to do stupid things to impress their friends?

[The Corparation]

Tell me, in what era of history do you think it was unheard of for kids to do stupid things to impress their friends?

[LimaUniformNovemberAlpha]

Sadly, there's really only so much you can do to protect people from doing stupid, dangerous shit. A lot of it probably comes down to parenting, to raise their kids to use some common goddamn sense and not do stupid shit for pointless approval. You can change the appearance of the pods to make them look less appealing, you can slap warning labels on them, you can get awareness campaigns going... but all of that is still going to be pointless so long as you've got teens and kids willing to do stupid shit for the likes/due to peer pressure.

I mean, maybe get Youtube and other video hosting services to demonetize/unlist/remove such videos, thus removing the ability for them to earn that approval, but I've little confidence in Youtube's content enforcement abilities given how often it gets abused to take down perfectly legit videos.

That won't do a damn thing. Most chemicals in high school chemistry labs look delicious, yet most students manage to refrain from drinking them.

The only solution is to stop letting kids use the Internet in the first place. It's a worse influence than their friends could ever be.

[The Parkus Empire]

Sadly, there's really only so much you can do to protect people from doing stupid, dangerous shit. A lot of it probably comes down to parenting, to raise their kids to use some common goddamn sense and not do stupid shit for pointless approval. You can change the appearance of the pods to make them look less appealing, you can slap warning labels on them, you can get awareness campaigns going... but all of that is still going to be pointless so long as you've got teens and kids willing to do stupid shit for the likes/due to peer pressure.

I mean, maybe get Youtube and other video hosting services to demonetize/unlist/remove such videos, thus removing the ability for them to earn that approval, but I've little confidence in Youtube's content enforcement abilities given how often it gets abused to take down perfectly legit videos.

That won't do a damn thing. Most chemicals in high school chemistry labs look delicious, yet most students manage to refrain from drinking them.

The only solution is to stop letting kids use the Internet in the first place. It's a worse influence than their friends could ever be.

Most posters here are probably kids or kids as it were (never had a job or left the nest)

[Reploid Productions]

The only solution is to stop letting kids use the Internet in the first place. It's a worse influence than their friends could ever be.

Worth noting that despite this latest fad, the vast majority of teens (and even older children!) manage to use the internet without deciding that stupid shit on the net is a good idea to emulate.

[Fartsniffage]

The only solution is to stop letting kids use the Internet in the first place. It's a worse influence than their friends could ever be.

Worth noting that despite this latest fad, the vast majority of teens (and even older children!) manage to use the internet without deciding that stupid shit on the net is a good idea to emulate.

I do wonder how many iphones got microwaved that we never heard about though....

[The Corparation]

Sadly, there's really only so much you can do to protect people from doing stupid, dangerous shit. A lot of it probably comes down to parenting, to raise their kids to use some common goddamn sense and not do stupid shit for pointless approval. You can change the appearance of the pods to make them look less appealing, you can slap warning labels on them, you can get awareness campaigns going... but all of that is still going to be pointless so long as you've got teens and kids willing to do stupid shit for the likes/due to peer pressure.

I mean, maybe get Youtube and other video hosting services to demonetize/unlist/remove such videos, thus removing the ability for them to earn that approval, but I've little confidence in Youtube's content enforcement abilities given how often it gets abused to take down perfectly legit videos.

That won't do a damn thing. Most chemicals in high school chemistry labs look delicious, yet most students manage to refrain from drinking them.

The only solution is to stop letting kids use the Internet in the first place.It's a worse influence than their friends could ever be.

Kids are more likely to go along with whatever dumb ideas that their friends come up with than whatever dumb thing they see online. My friends got me into more trouble as a kid then doing anything dumb I saw online. Plus Blocking the internet does not block the ability of a teenager and/or their friends to think of something really dumb to try. I worked at a scout camp for several summers, the kids on staff went without any sort of internet for weeks at a time. Shockingly this lack of internet didn't prevent them from doing stupid and dangerous things. The internet certainly hasn't helped things but there's no realistic way to prevent a a dumb kid from doing something dumb.

[Ifreann]

The only solution is to stop letting kids use the Internet in the first place. It's a worse influence than their friends could ever be.

Worth noting that despite this latest fad, the vast majority of teens (and even older children!) manage to use the internet without deciding that stupid shit on the net is a good idea to emulate.

I dunno, when I was younger someone showed me this stupid nation simulation game