Sometimes, in this beautiful life, you have incredible moments of unity.
Remember when some genius combined the croissant and the donut? Or when Pharrell and adidas collaborated, and produced some sweet pastel sneakers? The yin and the yang, coming together to effortlessly create a product of true beauty.
Vaping a Tide Pod?
Not one of those times.
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Let’s break it down, shall we?
The Tide Pod meme – clearly an American phenomenon, but far-reaching and identifiable enough for the common man – originated in late 2013, when the topic of eating the pods was brought up on Straight Dope Forums.
It snowballed from there, and we ended up with a bunch of memes and people ruminating on the possibility of ingesting these pods.
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Vincent van Gogh used to eat Tide pods because he wanted happiness inside him
— elizabeth (@elkalumpy) December 27, 2017
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forget pineapple, in 2018 we putting tide pods on pizza pic.twitter.com/CM1PIOn64I
— memes (@memeproviderz) December 31, 2017
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Tide Debuts New Sour Apple Detergent Pods https://t.co/jgWhUAAehJ pic.twitter.com/fQl3OlxEao
— The Onion (@TheOnion) July 11, 2017
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2014 – mid
2015- weed
2016- lean
2017 – xanax
2018 – Tide pods
2019 – fabuloso
2020 – meth— ✞ (@GUNNERSELLWHITE) January 1, 2018
Then, well, people actually started eating them.
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Early post for all the teachers out there. Let the kids know: Laundry pods are not a snack. The likes and views aren’t worth eating poison #teacherlife pic.twitter.com/pNcmi9Fauh
— US Consumer Product Safety Commission (@USCPSC) January 17, 2018
But finally, and almost inevitably, we reached the zenith of humanity, as the Chosen One (a man named Liam), shot a video where he poured a Tide Pod into a vape and lit up.
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The video has since been removed due to violating the YouTube Charter of Human Rights (original YouTube credits to TardassTV), and, I’m guessing, due to the possibility that after viewing such footage, droves of humans will bear down on laundry detergent aisles.
Liam: The stone-cold visionary with ice-cold, laundry scented breath.
In other colossal news, did you hear that goon might become extinct this year?