I was so caught up in people shitposting about being picky eaters that I forgot that this is an actual belief system currently gaining traction on tiktok

filling out "does the dog die" entries for obscure westerns is wild bc u have to type out shit like this

I WOULD START LOOKING FOR HOUSES IN A DIFFERENT STATE

@nothorses vibes on this beast?

immaculate.

^this^ he’s the perfect animal

I looked up Benadryl to see if the IV shortage had ended yet, and an FDA article from 2020 caught my eye about teens dying from doing the Benadryl TikTok Challenge.

...everything I learn about TikTok is against my will, and it's always for something absolutely god-awful.

Yeah okay but teens were dying from Tide pods without the help of TikTok. Going back generations kids will find a way to do stupid stuff and risk their life. Yeah the internet is making it worse. But TikTok is not the sole contributor to deadly challenges and stupid ideas.

The annoying thing about the tide pod challenge was that it started out as a joke on a satire site, caught media attention, and then kids started actually doing it in wider numbers because of the media attention.

Sure, there were some kids before that who were putting them in their mouths, mostly young kids because that’s what kids do. But having witnessed the tide pod craze firsthand, I can’t help but feel it might not have been as big a deal without major news hubs picking it up.

With TikTok, it feels like there’s some dangerous new thing every other week, and that’s because of how TikTok itself is consumed.

It’s a content-farming machine constantly churning out ideas with close to zero regulation and zero space for you to sit down and question it. Unless, of course, you’re disabled, fat, queer, or trying to talk about important issues. Then your ass can get restricted quite easily.

A lot of teens today have grown up with a highly regulated internet where content is heavily monitored. They’re used to thinking of certain things as “safe” because why would people say unsafe stuff online? If it reaches the algorithm front page, it must be fine. Right?

(Side note: I’ve also witnessed this level of unthinking trust with my elderly parents and many people in their generation, so I do not think it’s a young person's problem. It’s a lack of internet safety awareness that has been destroyed by the widespread sanitization and capitalization of the Internet.)

Except TikTok isn’t like that, and that’s a problem. It enjoys making money too much, as do the creators who, after a certain threshold, get paid for creating such heinous content.

So yeah kids have always done ridiculous shit, but the alacrity at which TikTok facilitates in churning out new things at breakneck speed with little room to process it doesn’t help.

Cautionary

A while back I had a COVID patient transferred to us from an OSH because they developed an interesting and complex complication from their COVID infection.

This person ended up developing retroperitoneal hematomas from lumbar arterial hemorrhages, presumably from endothelial damage and apoptosis from COVID. It should be known that this person was unvaccinated but had no other comorbidities associated with "bad" COVID infection. Also no other reason to explain the hemorrhaged (trauma, clotting factor problem, etc).

I admitted this person and they were a hot mess when they came in: on 3 pressors (while I was adding a 4th), hemorrhaging in the belly after one failed IR attempt to stop the bleeding, and gradually developing abdominal compartment syndrome from the massive about of blood in their belly. I spent the first 7 hours of my shift with this patient only because they were too unstable to go to imaging or IR without a provider present in case they coded. Literally followed them around with the box of blood product and just handing the nurse more blood. It was ridiculous.

They ended up going for an ex/lap and are doing better now. Long road ahead for recovery but they are alive.

I'm sharing this because I'm wondering if other people caring for COVID patients have seen hemorrhaging? We are all accustomed to the risk of clotting with COVID patients, but this was my first who was bleeding out. What were your experiences? How often do you see this?

Signal Boost

HAPPY 13TH BIRTHDAY TROLLFACE

Russian car mod

Based

Of all possible outcomes, I was not fucking expecting that

Clone High is a lot funnier if you take the clones and photoshop the actual faces of the people they’re cloned from onto them

You ever look at a fandom you’re not in from afar and feel like a nuclear missile just grazed the side of your head

There’s like. A ton of personifications. Including but not limited to the above:

Quarantine Man

The Taiwan CDC with a Disinfectant Gun

Hepatitis but a Boy Band

Syphilis with Gender (女) and other Bio Information

Varicella (chicken pox) and Herpes Zoster (shingles) as Children

The Plague, but Hot Lady (also with bio information)

Fuckboy Influenza

Measles, but Hot Guy

Lyme Disease with a Mech????

And, of course, COVID-19 in all their gender neutral glory.

There’s more but I hit the image limit. I’ve got a couple articles about them, too:

Let’s make this post even longer because I have even more images saved. Next up, we got:

Tsutsumagushi Disease

Chikungunya Fever!

MERS

Pertussis (whooping cough) with a horrifying (almost body horror) headpiece and flute

Dengue Fever, the image of which literally made me stop breathing for a moment when I first saw it

Japanese Encephalitis (as... idols, maybe?)

And Zika Virus (so pretty! and for what???)

And some higher res images of the ones from the video (Legionnaires’ Disease, Viral Gastroenteritis, and Rubella). Unfortunately, I could not fit Rabies because of the image limit.

Hannibal (2013-2015) + #no context

where is the photo of the frog statue that has a pussy i need it

this one?

RVRVDJSKKFBSK NO THATS NOT THE ONE I WAS THINKING BUT THOSE ARE CERTAINLY SOMETHING

is it this one?

YES YES YES YES THABK YOU SO MUCH

does anybody else remember that reality show where they gaslit a bunch of americans into thinking they were competing to marry prince harry but it was really just some guy

I feel extremely blessed that I can’t name a single one of these rantsonas.

What-sonas???

I like the dragon’s design

i knew they were bad but that FLOORED me

Isnt the wolf from that video on why we should bring child labor back?

Which wolf

Wait im wrong

this is the child labor guy

Isnt that blue wolf the one who made “The benefits of incest” video

Oh my god you’re right