"Beans!" In 2021, thousands of teenagers suddenly developed the same violent tics, every medical test came back clean, and the real cause turned out to be hiding on their phones.
A mysterious wave of severe tics swept through teenagers worldwide, baffling neurologists until investigators uncovered a digital culprit reshaping adolescent behavior in real time.
https://spacedaily.com/k-in-2021-thousands-of-teenagers-suddenly-developed-the-same-violent-tics-every-medical-test-came-back-clean-and-the-real-cause-turned-out-to-be-hiding-on-their-phones/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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It's called a fad. Reducing exposure has always been the solution.
It was more subtle and interesting than just a fad. It accidentally hijacked a number of our social instincts. In this case, it was disruptive and obvious. It's likely the effect is happening to everyone, just more subtly.
Basically, our stress responses are subconscious, but learnt. Think swearing when you hurt yourself. It's common, but it's not universal.
In this case, the girls, due to existing stress formed a pseudo social group. The group "leader" had an unusual 'stress' venting method (due to tourettes). The other girls synced to this without conscious involvement. It's the same mechanism that makes us pick up a local accent, or adopt local habits, when we move somewhere new.
In short, fads include this mechanism, but generally have a far more conscious aspect. This was an interesting short circuit, exposing some of the underlying mechanics of the human mind.
Thank you for that explanation. That was very helpful.
Fads tend not to cause physical illness.
That's absolutely not true.
Can you define illness?
you ever meet an adult with a Pog obsession?
I remember I had an amazing pog that was just super thick and dense as a kid.
Looking back, I don't know why I didn't just make custom pogs out of metal.
Nope
This is like something right out of a Southpark episode.
'had been watching a small number of Tourette influencers '
Yeah I remember this. At least one of the human cancers didn't even have tourettes and was just acting for views, to the complete surprise of no one with half a brain
For a second I wondered if you were talking about tourette guy.
FUCK SALT!
AH BOB SAGGAT
That is a LOT of words to say teenagers are fucking stupid.
Maybe I'm going out on a limb here but I'm not sure people on the fediverse are the best to be criticizing others because of a meme about beans.
What do you bean?
Hey, who and where are you?
I've been trying to figure that out for a while now.
No need to be condescending. Stupidity has nothing to do with it, which you might’ve known had you bothered reading some of those words in the article.
Why the fuck do these influencers exist.
to help expose people with tourette's to those who don't know what people with tourette's live like so that more people can treat them with dignity.
When I read "influencer" I read it as like "grifter". I concede what you're describing may not be bad.
Yeah. Think of it like this : influencer is a broad stroke term for basically, internet celebrity. They are able to influence people within the audience they have built for themselves, and are aiming to get their influence to more people to say something.
Now, they usually make money by lending that voice to companies in exchange for money. But, some are doing it to further other agendas, positive or negative.
And sometimes, there's a synergy. For example, Northernlion can be seen as an indie games influencer. Sometimes, companies pay him to play a game during a stream. He's upfront about the sponsorship, but it can be an interesting game to want to play. And sometimes, he doesn't know what game to play, since he streams most days as a regular ass job. So the "paid suggestion" helps him fill the time.
Others are not so scrupulous, and are exploitative.
If you replace the word influencer by religion etc your post could belong to a history community
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Because people with tourettes also have right to be content creators if they want to be?
So it was Munchausen's by internet?
Did you say Beans?
How ridiculous that people are taking their children all the way to the doctor before figuring out they saw some shit online.
Or, you know, talk to them.
Why are you saying beans? Where did you see that?
Exactly my point
Why would this mostly only affect people who happen to have genitalia inside their bodies?
Sounds like a dancing sickness.
They even made a whole ass Movie about it.
Now I really don't know what an illness is.
Damn kids are dumb.
I think this says more about how people are influenced by video in general, than about tics
I just wish people would go to the doctor when they start talking about how evil China, antifa, vaccines, and communism are. That's worse influence from videos than shouting "beans!"