Gains popularity? I’ve been seeing hundreds of those things discarded around the schools for years now
Chroming is just nitrous oxide?
That seems like a silly name.
the canisters are chrome, makes more sense than being named after the brand of paint but yeah it will always mean huffing paint to me.
Thanks ticktock for making nitrous expensive again. My nitro coffee maker is too expensive to use again.
How much is it per cup?
Nitrous is the same price near me as it’s been for 15 years, but now I can get big tanks instead of small canisters!
Wait, that’s a machine a regular person can get? I love nitro coffee!
Edit: I see nitro cartridges $3-$5/each. How many cups will one cartridge make? Are they hard to get?
Back in my day we called it wippits obviously others not me.
Getting strong “MTV made my child addicted to the devils lettuce” vibes from these comments
From the article:
The scientists analyzed 109 chroming-related videos on the social media platform that collectively had over 25 million views.
Billion user platform that’s popular with young people has young people interested in easy to get drugs. Won’t someone think of the children
I mean… that’s a problem, isn’t it? That it’s getting them into inhalants?
I assume you are not popular at parties. 😁
Edit: oh god, you’re the dude with 50,000 comments in like a year. Nevermind.
I don’t tend to go to parties where children are using inhalants, and you’re right, I probably wouldn’t be popular there.
How about don’t let your kids on a shitty social media platform to begin with. Besides it being a farm for data for the Chinese, it’s been shown via various studies the platform is like crack for your dopamine system.
We all know how teenagers always listen to their parents and never find ways to use technology without their parents knowing.
I sure wasn’t dialing up to BBSes at 3am after my parents grounded me from using my modem. Nosir.
I don’t understand tiktok. Last trend i heard about was people cheating banks to get free money (aka fraud) and now they’re doing inhalants as a trend? How many brain cells does the average tik toker have?
Yes i know my age is showing. Get off my lawn!
No we are just going back 20 years for fashion trends, make everything chrome. Spray chrome can be inhaled is whats happening
Media is only going to highlight and even sometimes propagate the truly horrible trends.
N2O is pretty awesome.
Chroming?
This is exactly where my mind went. Thank you stranger
Jesus fucking christ, what even are we anymore man?
if usually short-lasting, high, but long-term use can lead to complications like brain damage
Are they talking about Tik Tok?
No, this is less harmful than TikTok.
6 or 1/2 dozen really.
At least kids don’t get to smoking them cigarettes like they used to’
When I was much younger we just called it huffing, whether it was spray paint cans or gas.
For most of us, huffing always seemed like a pretty stupid thing to do. You’d have to be brain damaged to want to. Calling it “chroming” doesn’t change that
That’s what we called it too, but we didn’t have anyone to give us instructions or make it some sort of challenge.
I would never want to be a teenager now. Like having casual sex can give lifelong diseases, the right wing bearing down on everyone’s freedoms (except theirs ofc), hitchhiking is a death trap, etc etc.
If I was growing up now I probably wouldn’t make it to 20.
There have been STDs probably as long as there’s been sex. But now we might just be able to cure HIV. And we’ve been able to cure the other ones with antibiotics for a long time. And condoms are cheap, available, and socially encouraged.
Interestingly, young people are actually having less casual sex anyway.
But now we might just be able to cure HIV.
First, I agree with the spirit of what you’re referring to. However, I want to point out we have a fully working cure HIV, its just not reasonable to use on most people. 7 people have been fully cured of HIV with this treatment..
A cure that can be used at scale is I know what you’re talking about. I’m hopeful we’ll have that soon for the world. Meanwhile we have pretty darn good medicine these days to prevent HIV transmission as well as treat those with HIV to live a full life.
And we’ve been able to cure the other ones with antibiotics for a long time.
Except we now have antibiotic-resistant versions that are pushing the extents to which we can cure those STDs.
And condoms are cheap, available, and socially encouraged
But there’s still a contingent of men out there who refuse to wear them.
I have a USA-centric view, and I’m not sure how old you are, but you don’t have to go back very far to have those same risk (or worse!) for different reasons.
Like having casual sex can give lifelong diseases
Social acceptance for seeking treatment is much better now than 20 or 30 years ago. Moreover, HIV was death sentence back then, not so much anymore with modern medicine. Even contraception was harder to get ahold of as a teen 30 years ago. Now if any teen needs contraception or birth control, there are many legal and legitimate ways for them to get it easily.
the right wing bearing down on everyone’s freedoms (except theirs ofc),
I love how far we’ve come in the areas social justice (and we have more do to here). 30 to 50 years being gay would render you a social outcast as a teen. Telling others you were an atheist may have got you disciplinary actions from your school. If we’re looking back 50 years, we’d be right on the edge of the end of the draft to be shipped off to the Vietnam war which happened to many 18 and 19 year olds. This says nothing about the negative experiences of people of color have received at the hands of law enforcement, justice system, an unequal treatment from the education system.
I would never want to be a teenager now.
I fully agree with you here. The biggest risk is for their childhood mistakes to follow them for the rest of their lives. After us old folks that didn’t grow up with forgettable childhoods die off, society will evolve to forgive youthful mistakes as it will be 100% of the population that has documented past mistakes they’re not proud of, but this current transition time will be painful for the younger generations.
The biggest risk is for their childhood mistakes to follow them for the rest of their lives.
Every time I read about protests at colleges, this is all I can think of. College should be a place to find your voice, stretch your boundaries, and make mistakes without the permanent consequences.
I saw it coming decades ago when every campus security or public safety department wanted to become campus police so they can escalate to criminal charges and guns. Now I see colleges ruining their kids lives for trying to make the world a better place, at least one article about getting a kid deported, even when they haven’t hurt anyone. I’m all for consequences, but schools shouldn’t generally be making them permanent. What happened to the world?
Yeah I remember it felt like fun, until I found out it was bad for you. That along with any kind of asphyxiation - who knew! You’d think just being able to look up “is huffing chrome bad for you” on the internet would inoculate kids against this kind of stupidity.
By way of explanation, we were all quite poor and ignorant where I grew up.
Yeah. We were poor and ignorant too.
I remember when I realized how dangerous it was when a girl died … essentially drowning in the condensed gas fumes in her lungs. That woke us up quick.
Doing nitrous isn’t huffing, tho. It’s infinitely safer than huffing paint or duster.
Great. A generation of Charlie Kellys.
