If the Tide Pod epidemic didn’t disturb you enough, a new social media craze has teens snorting condoms.

Introducing: The Condom Challenge

The trend’s exact origins are, as yet, unknown, but in recent weeks teens up and down the country have been snorting condoms and posting the footage on YouTube. Just what extents will the kids of today go to in order to catch their 15 minutes of fame—or maybe 15 minutes of shame..?

More than 279,000 results on YouTube will flood your screen if you type in the search term “Condom Challenge”. Most of these videos show our youngsters performing this disgusting and pretty dangerous trick.

In the stunts, teens takes a condom, insert it up one nostril, snort it, and attempt to pull it out of their mouth or out of the other nostril.

This stage show trick has been performed by professionals for generations, but none of the kids are professionals and many of them are getting sick and risk doing some serious, permanent harm to their bodies.

Bruce Y. Lee, a Johns Hopkins professor said in a recent column for Forbes:

“…anything else that goes up your nose can damage the sensitive inner lining of your nose, cause an allergic reaction, or result in an infection.”

Doctor Carol Cooper told The Sun that this stunt could even kill someone.

“The nose is connected to the back of the mouth—it’s also connected to the airwaves. There’s every possibility something you push up your nose will end up in your windpipe, or in your lungs. With potentially fatal results,”

The apocalypse is here.

Kids are snorting CONDOMS.
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— Evan West (@TV_Evan) March 31, 2018

So what gives? Why on earth are so many kids doing this pointless and dangerous act? Some experts are saying that it is closely related to seeking attention and instant approval on social media.

Stephen Enriquez, a state education specialist, told KPMH News.

“Because these days our teens are doing everything for likes, views, and subscribers. As graphic as it is, we have to show parents because teens are going online looking for challenges and recreating them,”

These ridiculous online trends often suggest that there is a big problem with the psychology of young people in our modern society.

It is obvious to normal minded folk that eating Tide Pods and snorting condoms is stupid, pointless and dangerous—but they don’t seem to care. It is almost as if these people have a death wish, or that they have no concern for their own health.

Of course, it’s a much more complicated issue than that. These kids obviously don’t want to die, it’s just that they value the attention they get on social media far more than they value their health and their own livelihood.

A disturbing example of this thinking is seen in the school shooting phenomenon, where those that commit the acts of violence normally relish the prospect of media attention that they are to receive in the aftermath of their attacks. This is why it is no surprise that there are typically dozens of attempted copycats, or threats thereof, after a high profile school shooting.

It’s often the case that confused, disturbed and stressed out teens start to seek the type of attention that they see others receive through traditional and social media, albeit through a more destructive route. Although these demented social media crazes are far less of an immediate concern than school shootings, they’re both a strong indication of how teens are developing psychologically in an age where self-worth is measured by likes, clicks and digital friends.

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