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In the following years, eating Tide Pods became a popular joke online. [21] In March 2017, CollegeHumor uploaded a sketch video titled "Don't Eat The Laundry Pods". [12] [21] Posts began to prefer "Tide Pods" to more generic terms such as "laundry pods" with a thread posted on Reddit's "intrusivethoughts" subreddit in July 2017. [12]
A new study found that, over a recent three-year period, U.S. poison centers received more than 36,000 calls related to liquid laundry detergent pod exposures.
The first comprehensive study on the dangers of laundry pods, published in the journal Pediatrics, found that 17,230 children younger than 6 years old -- an average of one child every hour ...
The allure of eating Tide Pods and similar products has been a beloved internet meme for years due to the candy-like appearance of the small laundry detergent pacs.
The challenge (and subsequent meme) were popularized on Twitter and several people have eaten Tide Pods on camera. [13] One company began making edible replica "pods" and several internet personalities have posted about making edible "Tide Pods". [14]
Notable brands of these packs include All, Arm & Hammer, Gain, Purex, Persil, Rinso and Tide. [1] They first became popular in February 2012 when they were introduced by Procter & Gamble as Tide Pods (Ariel Pods in Europe). [1] The chemistry of laundry detergent packs is the same as in liquid detergents (including alkylbenzenesulfonates).
People doing stupid stuff on the Internet is hardly news. To wit: The Tide Pod Challenge, in which YouTubers have been filming themselves eating — or, we really hope, pretending to eat ...
In addition to taking down the videos, Google will give anyone who posts footage of anyone eating Tide Pods a strike on their channels for violating YouTube's Community Guidelines, which were ...