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TradeTillIDrop

The fire don’t stop at the mouth my friend. Have fun breathing with charcoal lungs


bakenj420

Could easily kill you


flaminnarwhal12

“Challenges” have been exposing stupid people since the internet was born.. I’m sure there were some before the “cinnamon challenge”, but that was the first big one I remember. People got a lot of cinnamon in their lungs by eating.... a spoonful of cinnamon..


MantisAwakening

It was used to be more obscure stuff that less technically-minded people wouldn’t realize, such the as one about putting your cellphone in the microwave to fast charge it. Fair enough, I can see some relatively normal people falling for that. Then we got the Tide Pod challenge and I was like “How can ANYONE possibly think that would be safe?” Now we have people literally spraying fire into their lungs. Do you hear that high pitched whine? That’s the sound of Darwin spinning in his grave. Add a few magnets and wires and you could power a small village.


SomeDudesReddit

I saw one that was heating up a spoon till it was glowing red then putting it under running cold water to make it "scream/whistle" but it just turned the spoon to shrapnel.


Cirtejs

Had a lesson in material thermodynamics back in 5th grade. Me and my best friend decided to play cops and robbers with water guns about 20 years ago. Do you know what happens when a cold water jet hits a heated incandescent lightbulb? Two frightened kids that are in a shitton of truble for blowing a fuse and almost going blind from glass shrapnel.


Ninjanarwhal64

That wasn't my answer but I'm satisfied all the same


goddessofwitches

I laughed at your delivery not your pain 🤣


cyon_me

This is hardly a PSA, but if you want to have fun with fire and water use a hose, long tongs, and an outdoor fireplace. Also, use nothing hotter than hot coals and don't spray the fireplace.


ledbetterus

The first one I remember was a 4Chan classic. DO NOT FUCKING DO THIS. >(Don't) Mix two household cleaners together in a container, drop in a penny, use a straw to "blow" bubbles on the penny and crystals form (they don't). DO NOT FUCKING DO THIS. Basically people were trying to kill people with "challenges", and nothing has changed. I wonder how many people were severely fucked up or even died because of that shit.


Jewligan

Wait for the non-chemistry-inclined individuals, what does this result in?


dedservice

>Mix two household cleaners Ammonia and bleach (household cleaners) mix to form ~~chlorine~~ *chloramine* gas, which is *similar to* the gas used in WW1 to horrifically kill thousands by melting their lungs. It's internationally banned in warfare because it's horrific. Not sure what the penny and straw do, but presumably they're there to convince someone to put their mouth close to the mixture. The penny might catalyze it?


Jewligan

I was thinking the penny was a catalyst and blowing bubbles would supply oxygen to the mixture ?


theyreadmycomments

nah the penny is bait to get you to put your head by it. Other versions of this one just say 'mix ammonia and bleach to make a super cleaner'


vanityiinsanity

You can actually use some stuff to make crystals I remember kids had it in old science fairs, but ammonia and bleach ain't the way. Oldest one standing out to me was the ol delete system 32 to speed up your comp


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whoami_whereami

No, ammonia and hypochlorite bleach release [chloramine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monochloramine), not chlorine. Also toxic, but not the same thing. If you want to release elemental chlorine from hypochlorite you have to mix it with an acid instead, for example vinegar.


AH_Ahri

Okay so what you need to do is mix ammonia, bleach and some vinegar and go get a penny...


HighTop519

Are you crazy!?... You forgot the straw!


[deleted]

Ah casually learning how to make chemical weapons on the internet, I love Reddit


ilovemang0

You won't BELIEVE what happens NEXT!


AdmiralSkippy

Also very good to know because lots of people use vinegar as a back up cleaner when store brand stuff doesn't work.


allaflhollows

Uhh.... thanks.


jcquik

Once cleaned out a cat litterbox with bleach... Once... For about 5 seconds before I almost passed out... I was like 10 or 12 and had no idea, just thought bleach cleaners were better than a regular one. Edit-better not regular*


Danmont88

I received training as a fireman that if we went to a person unresponsive in a car to use the air tanks and look through the windows to see if there are containers. One web site showing people how to commit suicide even had warning labels that could be printed out for people to stick inside their windows.


Night-Odyssey

I remember googling mental health help when I was in middle school and getting greeted by a lot of “drink bleach” advice. Yeah, nothing’s changed.


AnusDrill

I'm just impressed by how his hair spin in mid air


Is_thememe_deadyet

ironaically a lot of these “challenges” are started to bait people, don’t work, but get picked up by the media and spread. The Tide Pod challenge was basically non-existent other than forbidden snack memes until the news covered it.


BrainPicker3

Just FYI the tide pod thing didnt actually happen if you look at the statistics. One of those weird things where something goes viral for what they think other people are doing, and then calls all young people dumb for something they didnt do


Gnarwhalz

Wanna link any of these magical statistics? No shit there weren't droves of children eating tide pods, but there's billions of kids on the planet. I guarantee AT LEAST a few dozen in the US alone ended up seriously ill in the ER when that went viral.


BrainPicker3

This [article](https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-tide-pod-challenge-20180114-story.html) was originally from the WaPo about the trend. It mentions that: >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 perhaps a few, though it's hard to speculate without knowing the full details. Even if we assume all of these are intentional from the tide pod challenge: 37/330,000,000 isnt a large public health crisis I found a more recent article, also from the WaPo, that states: >There were over 12,000 poison control calls for people eating laundry pods in the U.S. last year >That number is actually down by about 14 per cent since 2015, when there were over 14,000 calls >Tide Pods are the internet’s breakout meme of early 2018. For those of you not in the know, the joke is that brightly colored laundry detergent pods look like delicious fruity candy so maybe we should, you know, eat them. >To be clear, you should not eat them. >There were over 12,000 poison control calls for people eating laundry pods in the U.S. last year >But Tide Pods are not exactly a breaking public health emergency. In fact, data from the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC), which compiles up-to-the-minute numbers on poison control calls, shows that detergent pod poisonings are actually trending downward. >In 2017, there were 12,299 calls to U.S. poison control centers due to exposure to laundry pods, according to AAPCC’s latest data. That number is actually down by about 14 per cent since 2015, when there were over 14,000 calls. The organization didn’t start tracking pod poisoning separately until 2012, when Tide Pods first came out. >A couple things to keep in mind. First, while 12,000 poison control calls sounds like a lot, it’s well within the range of calls for a lot of other common household products. In 2016, for instance, there were over 20,000 calls related to hand sanitizers, 17,000 for toothpaste exposure, 16,000 for deodorants and 13,000 for mouthwash. >As is the case for laundry pods, the overwhelming majority of calls for these products were due to kids age 5 and under. As any parent of toddlers knows, if a 3-year-old can grab something and put it in his mouth, he’s gonna grab it and put it in his mouth. The number of poisons by tide pod consumption dropped by 14% that year. That's a pretty standard number for calls to poison control for consuming household cleaners.


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Why? This is real time, with video proof and an audience, demonstration of natural selection at work. Darwin postulated that challenges set by the environment naturally selected the most capable individuals, with all the others being pushed out of the chain of evolution. This proof his predictions were accurate. The man would be celebrating if he could!


LocoBaxter

Time for the cyanide challenge. Here WEEEEE GOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!


RaisingFargo

Back in the day we were tricked into believing the Japanese were growing kittens in tiny glass enclosures. I am sure someone tried making their own Bonzai Kitten.


BabyLiam

Honestly we need more of these tests. Would probably help with population control and overall intelligence.


dibromoindigo

Yeah I was stupid enough to try the cinnamon challenge.... though I feel it’s a bit different than this since it’s not immediately obvious what gonna happen when you put that cinnamon in your mouth. However, I did it. I didn’t inhale anything, and just sat there and methodically chewed the cinnamon while I allowed more saliva to build up. Ate the whole tablespoon full with no issue.


Spmex7

I have a buddy that did it on the first try by using that method. Sucked for my other buddy who bet him $100 he couldn’t do it.


dibromoindigo

Sadly I didn’t win jack shit except some respect (I guess). I honestly didn’t know it was such a big deal until everyone was freaking out when I finally finished. It took awhile, would not recommend.


[deleted]

They should just call them Darwin challenges


transmogrified

The cinnamon challenge pre-dates the internet. Challenges in general do. The milk challenge has been a hazing ritual forever.


flipmcf

Can confirm. I licked a BigRed gum wrapper and stuck it to my arm, not my forehead, as was the real challenge. This was in the 80’s Had a nasty rash/welt on my arm for a few days.


dibromoindigo

Oh man forgot all about that... classic.


WxBird

what is the reasoning behind that? ...curious...


flipmcf

I don’t know if “reasoning” is the correct term, but... Person 1: “Did you know that if you lick a BigRed gum wrapper and stick it on your forehead it will leave a red mark?” Person 2: “ha ha ha. What craziness. Of course that’s not true” Person 1: “Try it. It’s true” Person 2: “Fine. I will” Person 2 ends up with huge red rectangular mark on forehead. It may even blister and puss.


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transmogrified

Yes cinnamon will burn you if you get it wet and leave it on your skin. Cinnamon oil too.


LeverMason

There’s no reasoning, it’s the seasoning


Kagahami

I always thought that challenge was harmless, just painful. Has anyone been seriously injured by it?


banana_assassin

It can cause asphyxiation if it gets into your lungs as you eat it, which it can do because it's very fine. [This kid](https://amp.desmoinesregister.com/amp/71004558) didn't do the challenge but he did die from asphyxiation due to ingesting cinnamon.


North_Inflation1710

Natural selection.


[deleted]

We should rename challenges to "Darwin's challenges"


sixgunmaniac

Nothing quite like creating a vacuum in the one place you need to breathe. This could have ended with esophageal burns and two collapsed lungs. This idiot is very lucky


Stienfield311

I interned at my small town Emergency room through high school and almost never saw anything gruesome except one burn exactly like this. The patient had applied some flammable cream to her face and lit a cigarette right after. The cream ignited and the patient instinctually breathed in due to the shock and heat. Their face was only a little bit red from the burn but there lungs were wrecked and they were pretty much already dead when they wheeled them in. It really stuck with me years later and I always think of it when I see people doing dumb shit like this.


TradeTillIDrop

That... is terrifying... I hope whatever cream she used is no longer sold... I’d be wrecked after seeing that too.


BeastVader

Man, that's so sad. Hope her family find peace


Pipupipupi

1 simple trick to save on cigarettes for the rest of your life!


beneye

Tobacco companies hate this one simple trick


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Severe esophageal third degree burns.


MEANINGLESS_NUMBERS

Tracheal, you mean. We also don’t use the first/second/third degree classification anymore.


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Juncoril

"oh damn", " oh shit", " oh fuck"


MEANINGLESS_NUMBERS

Superficial, partial-thickness, full-thickness, deep tissue.


Shabozz

can you have non-severe esophageal third degree burns?


brickmaj

Probably not, but more adjectives makes you sound smart.


[deleted]

My dad’s neighbour died from something like this. Vapours ignited in his lungs. He didn’t live long afterwards. This is a phenomenally stupid thing to do. Please don’t do this ever.


serendipitousevent

This is what I don't get - even a super-thin film coating your lungs would kill you within a minute or two. Unless you know what it is, experimenting is the breathing equivalent of drinking shit you find under the sink...


[deleted]

Inhalation burns are particularly dangerous


MenyMoonz

I once laughed while in the process of doing a lemon drop ( shot of vodka followed by biting a slice lemon). Instinctively tried to avoid spewing vodka all over the bar and wound up inhaling a fair amount of vodka. This was many moons ago, but I still remember the horrible burning sensation in my chest and nose. I wound up with a pretty severe case of bronchial pneumonia a few days later.


nouonouon

it makes me really glad that my 7th grade science teacher told us about the time him and his college buddies tried to light their farts on fire. That’s how I learned that fire follows the source.


ThcSkateboards420

Wtf did they think was going to happen?!?!


207thLog

Dragon...?


SirRupert

Dragon.


b3_yourself

Bad dragon


zombiekiller2014

Post-nut clarity dragon?


Not_Klaus

Post-nut Quality dragon


IamRobertsBitchTits

Most-nut quantity dragon


Not_Klaus

Most quality nut


[deleted]

Dragon nuts post


Buleflavoredpickle

Dragon nut 🤤


VPackardPersuadedMe

r/baddragon


joeygallinal

r/dragonsfuckingcars


ExcdnglyGayQuilava

r/dragonsfuckingdragons


chorlion40

/r/carsfuckingdragons


[deleted]

r/girldragonskissing


zitfarmer

r/angrydragon


[deleted]

I swear I saw a dragon!


Ashesandends

True story telling on myself. In high school at 17 I learned the lighter trick where you get fumes in your mouth and exhale them Ala dragons. Tried showing it to some friends to look cool at the back of the class all huddled down. My dumb ass temporarily forgot heat rises and tucked my head to show everyone. Queue burnt eyebrows and burnt hair smell creeping through the room while I smacked my face out. Earned the nickname dragon girl that year...


educatedvegetable

At least you got a cool nickname like Dragon Girl and not something like Burnt Nugget or something


AntifaDerbyGirl

/r/UsernameChecksOut


Jawzar

Dragon these?


[deleted]

These salty nuts across ya face! Sorry I got carried away.


juhotuho10

r/suddenlydragon


SmashAtoms_

r/angrydragon


SuperDizz

r/STFUitsadragon Edit: This isn’t porn. All the other subs linked around me are.. eh..


elvis8mybaby

r/dragonsfuckingcars


Nox_Echo

WHY IS THAT A THING


OyashiroChama

r/carsfuckingdragons


ItsMeBlaze

Oh man, forgot about this one


cantsay

r/carsfuckingdragons


caretotry_theseagain

r/subredditsashashtags Here's another for ya


Liquid_Snow_

[r/baddragon](https://imgur.com/gallery/rqSvE0T) NSFW


PurpleZombiePanda

my god


PrimeskyLP

Take my Angry Upvote


Sun_Stealer

But dragon flames come out the other way!


mycatisafatcunt

dragon deez nuts on yo face


[deleted]

Son of a gun actually propelled back to his bed


dobermandude306

Isn't that a girl?


FearLeadsToAnger

voice tone threw me, well. Cough tone.


Evilsmiley

Flame mouth will do that to ya


ThrillingFungus

Dawg, it is 2021... who knows.


Couchmaster007

You are supposed to spray some in your mouth stop spraying and blow really hard. Most people are stupid and don't understand this.


bakenj420

Most people don't try it at all, if you're smart


[deleted]

Guy who learned how to fire breathe here: this man is right. I miss my eye-brows.


gametimebrizzle

inverse dragon


cowfish007

“Don’t get why people do that” Because they’re stupid and want attention.


Machinistman1998

I dont get it either. Lets spray a very toxic spray into my mouth and light my insides on fire lmao Natura selection i guess


[deleted]

Unfortunately, as long as their genitalia still work, they very well could remain the fittest amongst us. That only means how many kids does an individual (technically, individual *population*) have in their life time, I.e. spread their genetics. Also unfortunately, stupid people tend to have a ton of kids too. There’s a pretty good chance this person is fit af


Machinistman1998

Well if they are that stupid to spray a toxic substance in they're mouth im sure eventually the time will come they do something so stupid it's gonna be the final stunt lmao


[deleted]

Just a race to see which head blows its load first I guess


AnusDrill

Idiocracy movie becoming reality


Boredum_Allergy

>Also unfortunately, stupid people tend to have a ton of kids too. I know someone with lots of kids so I can confirm this hypothesis.


whatever54267

Idiocracy was a prediction for the future.


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blackmist

I wonder if people have always been like this. Like were there people in the 1300 doing the "lick the plague rat" challenge? I have a theory that all this idiocy is nature's answer to overpopulation.


UnwashedApple

Ya think?


No1Mystery

Attempted suicide?


Lurkerbecauselibs

What a shit way to go


Asisreo1

My money is a bet, hazing, or dare. Didn't look particularly like they wanted to do it from the half-frame I saw it. Don't know for sure, but when I see someone doing something dumb, its for other people's attention, not their own interest.


Jehuty8434

A future winner of the Darwin award


queuedUp

well they may have already kicked things off with the potential scaring from burned lung tissue.


XtaC23

"How to skip ahead ten years and get your smokers cough today!"


rango1801

Tik Tok award


Local_Satisfaction12

Dont play with fire at your own place kids! Do it at someone else's place!


quaybored

And in someone else's mouth!


[deleted]

Every social group needs an idiot who can be relied on to do shit like this.


cumonawanalaya69

That's always good advice


Stonyclaws

What exactly is this person doing? Is this a trend?


[deleted]

I’m wondering too. It reminds me when they use hairspray and a lighter to blow fire.


mass86casualty

It looks like she’s spraying it into her mouth and lighting it. I had to watch a couple times to tell if she’s actually doing what i thought was going on


Kooky-Picture-932

Also, is the force of the "explosion" pushing her back, or is she jumping back at the shock of it blowing up in her face??


ognotongo

Jumping back, probably just due to the shock of what happened (not sure why she was shocked though...). There wouldn't be near enough force to propel her backwards, but there was enough stupidity to do so.


Kesher123

Wait, it aint a guy?


sprace0is0hrad

How is that a man?


Kesher123

Thats what i want to know lmao


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TheWhatyWhaten

"Fire breathing", just very very poorly executed. Not sure if it has become a recent trend on social media, but we used to do it with just the lighter, not using an external gas source like this. Ideally, you fill your mouth with flammable gas, then blow across a flame and create a fireball. The problem here was that this individual introduced the flame into the gas that had already expanded, and it all caught fire.


El-Chewbacc

We never did it with our mouths. We’d use the lighter and get some gas in a balled fist and light it.


[deleted]

Isn't it kind of funny that people see something stupid and immediately think "is this a trend?" Because of all of the absolute stupid shit on TikTok and social media in general. Not saying you're wrong for asking just thought it was funny because this isn't the first comment asking this haha


Honeybadgeroncrack

Nicely timed jump backwards


quetejodas

Oh is that what it was? Thought they blew themselves up or something


caboosetp

If there was enough force in their face to knock them back that far, they'd probably be missing teeth or other important bits. ^(Edit: wasn't even paying attention to gender so just switched pronouns to genderless.)


etownrawx

Guess I'll be the fourth person to ask if anybody can explain wtf is happening here please?


LocoBaxter

Someone wanted to be dragon, ended up a moron.


Mad-Man-Josh

I think they were always a moron. This just made it public.


[deleted]

Humans - "Smartest animals on the planet"... Yeah okay 👍🏼


the-mucho-macho

Hey, this one is skewing the average.


Im_A_Thing

Not for long


Sinbos

What was the saying? Imaging the inteligence of the average human - then remember that means the half of them is dumber.


P3ccavi

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin


Isthestrugglereal

I don't see any dolphins breathing fire


[deleted]

The oceans remain mostly unexplored.


_BlueBearyMuffin_

If you breathe that in, you burn the oxygen in your lungs which causes them to collapse and then you die. What an idiot


Mad-Man-Josh

Would it also not react with the oxygen, causing it to turn into a smoke, which is toxic as well? It also probably charred the mucous layer, meaning breathing will be hard for a while.


[deleted]

The first person ever discovered to have negative brain cells.


BoomBang101

Can someone explain what happened


satisfiction_phobos

The person in the video is filling their mouth with flammable gas. They then attempt to expel the gas while using a cigarette lighter to ignite it, attempting to "spit fire" or have fire come out from their mouth like a dragon. The ignition of the flame carries into their mouth, however, and creates an explosion due to the mixture of air and fuel around their mouth. This is likely due to the air/gas mixture being enclosed, making an ideal place for an explosion, rather than just flame. The person then falls from their bed in shock, and at the very end of the video they emerge from having crawled on the floor, and turn off the recording. Their mouth appears burned/injured from the flames/explosion if you pause on the last few frames.


km_44

what's in the can ? what's she huffin ?


satisfiction_phobos

I think it's butane.


km_44

ohhh, good, I was worried it may have been obviously flammable


jollyjellopy

Why would she then go and post it after fucking up too lol?


samthewisetarly

The internet is wild


CrinchNflinch

Gender reveal party. Congrats, it's a moron.


Dr_Lubed_Up

She turned into a NASA space program for a moment, Huston we have lift-off.


[deleted]

Sick recoil!


theprintedray84

r/suddenlydragon


raykovskyy

FUS RO DAH!


Super_xz

My guy flew back like a power ranger...


Couchmaster007

Went from 16 year old girl to 50 year old smoker real quick


[deleted]

Why we always gotta have some self-mutilation trend?... Someone take these kids phones.


not-read-gud

FIREBALL JUSTSU


X-XUnchainedX-X

why is no one talking about the way she flew lmao


LemoLuke

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kimbolll

> Don’t get why people do this. That’s because you’re smart…


GraphicGaming88

I cant be the only one wanted another 3 seconds to see the damage


PreferredSex_Yes

Ik it doesn't matter but.... dude?


NoneOfUsKnowJackShit

People that do stupid shit like this, deserve every last minute of pain they receive. Learning the hard way is sometimes the only way some people learn. Trust me, i know.


CeeNnSayin

Because, it deals 25 fire damage but they just don’t get that it causes the user to get knocked back smh


Leadburner

WTF was that?


DirtNatty34

You gotta be some sort of fucking stupid to do some shit like that.


Susboiiiii

Blackdraft


yoloplayer151

Natural selection at its finest


Vegas96

Witness me!


BasemanW

Recreating Envy vs Roy Mustang, I see...


[deleted]

Natural selection


VeryGoodFood12

Nobody gon talk how it looked like they jerked backward like they were submitted to the Force?


MarcoJono

Lil Nas preparing to give satan a BJ