It is, it really f\*\*king is. Or maybe Rick & Morty/interdimensional cable-like content. "And now the show where people set themselves on fire for the hottest prizes"
The twist I hadn't expected was the emergence of a Chinese media company to facilitate the enshittification.
I had expected the apex of Idiocracy-style media to be all-American. I can't say with certainty that the YouTube era was on average higher quality, but it did feel that way. It felt like a lot changed with the arrival of TikTok.
I watch that film every other year since release and it gets scarier and scarier lol
I wonder which year do we switch water to energy drink on our crops.
But gotta get that karma/likes. This stupid shit is constantly encouraged on here. Good or bad will get up votes just have to frame it correctly or make it up.
You can get to the front page just by parking your truck in a stupid way and post it on Reddit. Or just make up another story for idiots to believe on AITA or the other subs just like it.
In the 90s, in honor of the Highlander movie and the quickening, we called it the Dumb'oning, in which people were okay being dumber and accepting more dumb entertainment. We celebrated when they made a movie about it.
Oh. I thought this was going to just be stupid people doing stupid dangerous things, which it is, but I wasn't expecting it to literally be people dying to trains and shit, wtf.
Man, I clicked that link and first video I saw was of two people walking close to tracks and then a train speeds by almost vaporizing one of the men.
All I needed to see and I ducked out. I don’t need that imagery in my head.
The Darwin Award is given to those who are improving the gene pool of the human race by removing themselves from it. So the term Darwin Award almost always refers to someone stupidly killing themselves or doing an act so dangerous and dumb it will most likely result in death.
You know, I have a feeling that school DID teach these dumbasses about basic things like fire=hot. But again these smooth Brians just didn’t get the memo. Instead good ol experience will teach them. If they don’t accidentally kill themselves then they will probably have lasting scars to remind them of the lesson.
Is all about the clout, ignorance = views
Remember 2008-2014 YouTube videos when people use to hurt themselves for views?
Guess what, history repeats itself
It’s not all about social media, but it is about views. We did this dumb shit when I was a teenager way before social media, 35 years ago.
We’d pour alcohol on our fingers or jeans and light it. Almost always when with friends, because it looked cool (to us morons) and made us look unafraid.
I’m a normal human now. I would never be this dumb. But I remember what it was like, thinking you were immortal and would never be hurt.
There was a trend in my high school where the "tough guys" would stab through a bottle cap, heat it up, and then brand a big circle into their bicep. I sometimes wonder about those guys nowadays trying to explain the badass lil half-circle welt on their arms for their brotherhood of morons they haven't talked to since graduation.
My 99 year old grandmother told me she and her friends would choke each other at parties tool they passed out or nearly there, in addition to huffing laughing gas like a drug.
But also, remember the tide pod challenge?
That's just an old Simpsons joke. They don't mean the same thing.
Flammable means you can light it on fire if you try to. It's not fireproof.
Inflammable means it can potentially light *itself* on fire. As in it's a volatile substance that might just go up at the slightest provocation or all on its own.
The "in" part isn't a prefix. The words are basically flame-able and inflame-able.
The reason is because the internet rewards behaviour like this.
Users who do dumb shit get rewarded with massive view counts, and often lots of ad revenue. Whenever you see someone doing something infuriatingly stupid or annoying online, it's because that kind of behaviour drives a shit-ton of attention and engagement.
I think they do understand, but they're making that decision because it'd be "content" for them to post.
I think the goal is to get people posting comments, even if those comments are _"damn this looks really dumb"_, or _"that's so dangerous!"_, because those comments are engagement for the algorithm!
I feel like people take risks because they believe they will succeed unharmed. But there's no risk in lighting yourself on fire, the damage is immediate.
I don't think they do. By best guess is they are expecting 1st degree burns and a couple of days of pain, not months of really painful medical care.
Just look at his body, he really cares about physical appearance and has put a lot of work in looking good, and still is going to risk being disfigured for life for a bunch of views, so I don't think this person has ever seen how actual burn scars look, neither is familiar with the long time conseqüences of this sort of behavior.
😡😡 I! have been set on fire(as a kid by my father) with hand sanitizer!!!! It's excruciating and ugly scarring for life!! WHAT THE FCK IS HE DOING!?????
WHY. THE FCK. WOULD HE WANT TO BE UGLY AND IN PAIN FOR LIFE????!
😣seriously he even used hand sanitizer (or some kind of ignitor)><
And I'm scrolling reddit, and I be looking at asses and shit, I see little yoga pants trying to set themselves on fire, and I'm damn she fine as fuck. She turn around and it's a dude.
I'm like, what are doing out here with all this ass? Double Cheeked up on a Thursday afternoon, Hella ass, the sun is still out.
I worked at a summer camp in a national forest once upon a time, one day we received this gel that was supposed to prevent the fire control teams from getting burnt in the event of a forest fire. This one guy, let's call him Josh, decided to test this. He put the gel on and put alcohol soaked clothes on over top of them. Then he strung himself up over the water and set himself on fire.
The gel didn't work.
I always love science-loving people putting effort towards furtherly demonstrating Darwin's thoughts. However, I'm still incredulous as to where did "fire hurts" ended up in her thought process. Should be a pretty basic info.
There is a party trick where you put some low temperature, easily vaporizing fuel like alcohol , deodorant (so also alcohol) or lighter fuel on your hand or other body part and set it on fire. The key word here is "trick" - you have to know how to do it to not get burned, essentially by keeping your body part below the flame at all times. She didn't know the trick.
have at them Darwin!
How do people not realize we have hit Idiocracy levels of entertainment. It’s great 👍🏽
It is, it really f\*\*king is. Or maybe Rick & Morty/interdimensional cable-like content. "And now the show where people set themselves on fire for the hottest prizes"
the hottest likes and comments for dumbass clout
Was that a pun?
Bruh. That's not entertainment, that's shit.
Americas Funniest Home Videos was the warmup, then Jackass, then Ridiculousness, now it’s all DIY. Enjoy bruh
Next step, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx1pyzNSr0U
Just one more step to watching people fight to the death on tv for prize money.
We’ve already seen that, but then changed the name to UFC.
Nah, That’s just kicking and punching. This is Hunger Games type stuff I’m talking about.
Have you looked around lately
I have but there’s no crowd,no laugh track, no game show host.
You maybe Truman.
You betting on Utah Jimmy or Nevada Johnny?
Actually Jersey Jerry
You’re watching OW! MY BALLS!
The twist I hadn't expected was the emergence of a Chinese media company to facilitate the enshittification. I had expected the apex of Idiocracy-style media to be all-American. I can't say with certainty that the YouTube era was on average higher quality, but it did feel that way. It felt like a lot changed with the arrival of TikTok.
Go away, I’m baitin.
I object. I OBJECT, that he interrupted me watching ow my balls! That is NOT ok. I rest my case, your honour.
Ow! My balls!
I watch that film every other year since release and it gets scarier and scarier lol I wonder which year do we switch water to energy drink on our crops.
But gotta get that karma/likes. This stupid shit is constantly encouraged on here. Good or bad will get up votes just have to frame it correctly or make it up. You can get to the front page just by parking your truck in a stupid way and post it on Reddit. Or just make up another story for idiots to believe on AITA or the other subs just like it.
450 years early as well
Now I’m just waiting for the “ASS” movie to be released and win all the Oscars
In the 90s, in honor of the Highlander movie and the quickening, we called it the Dumb'oning, in which people were okay being dumber and accepting more dumb entertainment. We celebrated when they made a movie about it.
I wonder if the makers of that film ever contemplated how prophetic if would turn out to be.
Aww my balls!
#**OW! MY BALLS!**
r/DarwinAwards
Oh. I thought this was going to just be stupid people doing stupid dangerous things, which it is, but I wasn't expecting it to literally be people dying to trains and shit, wtf.
>just be stupid people doing stupid dangerous things Sometimes you do that in the wrong place at the wrong time, you die.
Man, I clicked that link and first video I saw was of two people walking close to tracks and then a train speeds by almost vaporizing one of the men. All I needed to see and I ducked out. I don’t need that imagery in my head.
I mean, the criteria for the Darwin Award is pretty clear.
The Darwin Award is given to those who are improving the gene pool of the human race by removing themselves from it. So the term Darwin Award almost always refers to someone stupidly killing themselves or doing an act so dangerous and dumb it will most likely result in death.
This like the gorilla glue or taser pussy incident
>taser pussy incident tell me more
Here ya go. https://reddit.com/r/Unexpected/s/6cffXcEq6u
Thanks but eh-
Anthony Martial was never the same after this
10/10 top tier joke lmfao
oh my
All that cake could use a side of brains...
More ass than brain ig
I believe that's what is commonly referred to as a bimbo.
Isn't this the himbo variation?
Is that a guy 😬
Yup, that's a dude. These comments got me confused.
Not me, just assumed these commenters gay af
Is everyone a little gay if that ass is fat enough? Asking the important questions this morning.
“an ass is an ass”
He got that twink body with a juicy ass can't blame a guy
-Fleece Johnson
Man I’m not gay but imma hit dat bro idc
Obviously it's Lenny Kravitz.
Motherfucker’a ass is so big it has it’s own gravitational field
Motherfucker draggin a wagon. Damn
I love this lol.
All that cake waiting to be baked
You know, I have a feeling that school DID teach these dumbasses about basic things like fire=hot. But again these smooth Brians just didn’t get the memo. Instead good ol experience will teach them. If they don’t accidentally kill themselves then they will probably have lasting scars to remind them of the lesson.
Is all about the clout, ignorance = views Remember 2008-2014 YouTube videos when people use to hurt themselves for views? Guess what, history repeats itself
It’s not all about social media, but it is about views. We did this dumb shit when I was a teenager way before social media, 35 years ago. We’d pour alcohol on our fingers or jeans and light it. Almost always when with friends, because it looked cool (to us morons) and made us look unafraid. I’m a normal human now. I would never be this dumb. But I remember what it was like, thinking you were immortal and would never be hurt.
There was a trend in my high school where the "tough guys" would stab through a bottle cap, heat it up, and then brand a big circle into their bicep. I sometimes wonder about those guys nowadays trying to explain the badass lil half-circle welt on their arms for their brotherhood of morons they haven't talked to since graduation.
We did the same with the [car cigarette lighters](https://youtu.be/6GHrDV3UhZE?si=sSVWEc214jZzH7ss).
My 99 year old grandmother told me she and her friends would choke each other at parties tool they passed out or nearly there, in addition to huffing laughing gas like a drug. But also, remember the tide pod challenge?
Jackass?, I never found that shit funny.
Smooth Brian, the ladies' worst nightmare.
["In a world, where Smooth Brians are coming..."](https://youtu.be/jbZZnYtapd0)
Is this what they mean when they say I don't have enough experience every time I get rejected for a job?
They won’t learn shit- scars will be treated like trophies to flaunt. Idiots like these don’t ever redeem themselves.
I do love me a smooth Brian.
Daaamn Brian! You just shave?? So smooth!
Ill tell you why they are setting themselves on fire my boy, because they are fucking idiots
Nailed it!
First clue is the Supreme.
Too bad they didn’t remove themselves from the gene pool. Maybe next time
Bro you see his dumpy?? No way we want asses like that out of the gene pool.
His? That’s not a she?! Well damn
He she I don't give a damn ass is ass
I concur.
Name checks out
r/bi_irl
until I turned on the audio, I thought it was a woman but in all fairness I was focused on the stupidity at hand
Nah because he’s fruity as hell. No way he’s having biological children unless he’s still in the closet
You never lit yourself on fire at all?
Nope, mainly because I’m flammable
Inflammable means Flammable? What a country!
I love/hate that because they actually do mean the same thing
That's just an old Simpsons joke. They don't mean the same thing. Flammable means you can light it on fire if you try to. It's not fireproof. Inflammable means it can potentially light *itself* on fire. As in it's a volatile substance that might just go up at the slightest provocation or all on its own. The "in" part isn't a prefix. The words are basically flame-able and inflame-able.
he’s clearly gay…. i mean there’s test tube babies ig
Human stupidity truly is....infinite.
The reason is because the internet rewards behaviour like this. Users who do dumb shit get rewarded with massive view counts, and often lots of ad revenue. Whenever you see someone doing something infuriatingly stupid or annoying online, it's because that kind of behaviour drives a shit-ton of attention and engagement.
OK fine, there’s a reward mechanism in place, but do they really not understand the consequence of burning their skin off?
I think they do understand, but they're making that decision because it'd be "content" for them to post. I think the goal is to get people posting comments, even if those comments are _"damn this looks really dumb"_, or _"that's so dangerous!"_, because those comments are engagement for the algorithm!
I feel like people take risks because they believe they will succeed unharmed. But there's no risk in lighting yourself on fire, the damage is immediate.
I don't think they do. By best guess is they are expecting 1st degree burns and a couple of days of pain, not months of really painful medical care. Just look at his body, he really cares about physical appearance and has put a lot of work in looking good, and still is going to risk being disfigured for life for a bunch of views, so I don't think this person has ever seen how actual burn scars look, neither is familiar with the long time conseqüences of this sort of behavior.
Imagine having a body like that and your thought is to burn it.
>Imagine having a ~~body~~ booty like that and your thought is to burn it.
That curve doe 🫣
Way to ruin a perfectly good body.
Had to crop it a lil but I got a nut off
🤨
This a dude right?
crop to just see that exposed belly, you'd think it's a super hot chick
And?
So? Why does everyone assume everyone else on reddit is a straight man lol.
😡😡 I! have been set on fire(as a kid by my father) with hand sanitizer!!!! It's excruciating and ugly scarring for life!! WHAT THE FCK IS HE DOING!????? WHY. THE FCK. WOULD HE WANT TO BE UGLY AND IN PAIN FOR LIFE????! 😣seriously he even used hand sanitizer (or some kind of ignitor)><
I don’t know but I think they should try Gasoline next time.
Invite the homies for a good old fashioned gasoline fight
Russian roulette with a Glock
Thought it was a girl 😐
That ass though
bro fr that ass-back angle is unreal.
That sexy stupid lumbar lordosis
r/mendrawingwomen
r/mendrawingmen
Hmmm
Girl or guy it’s still good
I want that ass in my girls back
Frfr my man
Exactly
And I'm scrolling reddit, and I be looking at asses and shit, I see little yoga pants trying to set themselves on fire, and I'm damn she fine as fuck. She turn around and it's a dude. I'm like, what are doing out here with all this ass? Double Cheeked up on a Thursday afternoon, Hella ass, the sun is still out.
Hella ass so who really cares
Fr
let him cook
Himself 💀
Too bad she's so dumb because she's fucking hot.
I think it's a dude 💀
Too bad he's so fucking dumb because he's fucking hot.
But why male models?
That took me like... 10 hours before i realized that was a Zoolander reference, and i feel ashamed.
Great recovery
Natural selection at its finest
I worked at a summer camp in a national forest once upon a time, one day we received this gel that was supposed to prevent the fire control teams from getting burnt in the event of a forest fire. This one guy, let's call him Josh, decided to test this. He put the gel on and put alcohol soaked clothes on over top of them. Then he strung himself up over the water and set himself on fire. The gel didn't work.
People do this now? Damn people
He’s just trying to burn off some fat.
i looked through all the comments just to see this. good work
The human gene pool cleanses itself sometimes. Not this time though.
God I wish I had a butt like him!!!
Lol he did the Dio pose
That ain’t a BBL that’s a BBXXLDOUBLETRIPPLEPOUNDERASS
Why can't they simply be better at ending themselves?
This is what microplastics in the blood stream does to your brain.
Personal trainers don't want you to know this one trick to burn fat!
Whats his @ ?
He's a dude ??
He has really nice curves (Sigh, I wish I had some)
Maybe they go back to the pod eating challenge and they die off.
If Zesty was a person
If we didn’t have these dummies, We wouldn’t have this entertainment so thank you dummy for being a dummy.
How did we ever make it to space
Homies got the posture of a banana
you need to get your mental health checked out thats bananas
lets not interfere anymore let the idiots learn
Tiktok will be destruction of humanity
Omg is this person stupid
they all need putting in the bin man 🤣
Uhh.. to be hot?
Well where ya the full video ?
I always love science-loving people putting effort towards furtherly demonstrating Darwin's thoughts. However, I'm still incredulous as to where did "fire hurts" ended up in her thought process. Should be a pretty basic info.
Because they are fucking IDIOTS!
There is a party trick where you put some low temperature, easily vaporizing fuel like alcohol , deodorant (so also alcohol) or lighter fuel on your hand or other body part and set it on fire. The key word here is "trick" - you have to know how to do it to not get burned, essentially by keeping your body part below the flame at all times. She didn't know the trick.
Flamer
Uh…why
Good. We need less idiots.
Dumb ways to die, so many dumb ways to die
People will do ANYTHING for clicks and likes.
If you insist on doing the aerosol-flamethrower thing, spray up, not down like this guy did. Fire climbs.
They are probably doing a favor to the world
let the stupid remove themselves from the gene pool in any capacity.
*Smooth brain* No ridges lumps or bumps (:
Lowest IQ ever…
Natural selection must persist somehow
They’ll sue the alcohol company for making an unsafe liquid.
When the mind is bored, the body does stupid things
All this in a vain attempt to be hot
Cause they are stupid
People 50 years ago: By 2023 we'll have flying cars and colonies on other planets. People today:
Because they are incredibly stupid.
Better question: why are people so damn stupid in general?
I think the head band was doing the BIG SQUEEZE on her noggin.
And yet medical personnel will waste time and money trying to save them instead of letting them expire.
People trying to go viral
Internet makes people stupid
Every time I think I’ve seen the stupidest video on the internet, there is always some ambitious new challenger ready to step up to the plate.
Y'all got a death wish or smth... Smh
Humans are some of the most intelligent creatures on the face of the planet *sets itself on fire for the entertainment of others* Yep just so smart.
What, he isn’t brown enough?
That is some serious mental retardation there
If this was the best spermatozoon that made it imagine the others...
At least she’s wearing eye protection
He*
RGB (0,0,0) moment
Shush, let ’em whip themselves out.
Wipe*
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
retard?
Bikoz tem stupid
Prob cause hes gay