Eff It Friday – Social Media Whores Edition

I’ve been sick all week with this upper respiratory crap that’s going around. Not feeling well greatly contributes to a very shortened fuse, my friends. My patience is nil. So it’s time for another “Eff It Friday” rant.

Let’s talk social media whores. 

If you are one of the few people who isn’t on any kind of social media platforms, you are probably blessedly unaware of some of the stupidity to which our fellow human beings subject us to. You are so lucky.

I present to you, the “Cheese Slice Baby Challenge”:

Yes. That’s right. The “new” trend is to video yourself throwing an American Cheese slice on your baby’s head and capturing their reaction when it sticks.

Take a moment if you need it. I know I did.

This is what we’ve come to, y’all. Throwing cheese slices at our babies for entertainment. 

As my good friend, Lori, over at Come Hell Or High Water Blog, said in a Facebook post: “Y’all need to quit throwing processed cheese slices at your babies, okay? That shit’s not even real. Balance a wedge of gouda on their heads or something.”

Let’s see…first we had the Ice Bucket challenge where people dumped ice cold water on themselves in the name of raising awareness for ALS research. Let’s be honest. How many people actually knew about the ALS part of it? Most of the videos I saw were just dumbasses hoping their video would be “the one” that went viral and gave them their fifteen minutes of fame.

The only ones that went viral were the fails, which I must admit were pretty hilarious. I love watching idiots get what they deserve for being idiots:

Then there was the Kiki Challenge where people videoed themselves jumping out of moving cars to dance and lip sync to Drake’s song “In My Feelings”. It got to where local police departments had to warn people not to do this challenge for two reasons:

1. Either the person inside the car, doing the recording, was trying to drive at the same time and wrecking, or
2. The person jumping out of the car and dancing was causing wrecks and/or getting run over.

I wish I was joking.

Then came the best one of all. The Tide Pod Challenge.

Yes, that’s right. Let’s open up the childproof container of laundry detergent pods that has a giant warning label on the side, and stick one of those babies in our mouth! Because chemical burns are SO MUCH BETTER inside than out!

I don’t have a GIF for this one…just a challenge of my own:

I’m fairly certain that the people who partake in these challenges are the reason why McDonald’s has to warn you that their coffee is hot by putting a ginormous warning label right on their coffee cups!

I’m not a religious person, but I’d be willing to bet these are all signs of the End Times. Or maybe we’ve already been through the Rapture and the good people have been taken and I’m stuck here with my punishment being watching idiots throw processed cheese products on their kids’ faces.

From a purely scientific perspective, I’m pretty sure we are de-evolving as a species and Darwin is shitting in his grave somewhere. If we are to be believe his Theory of Survival of the Fittest, we are clearly headed toward extinction. On the other hand, the stupidity seems to proliferate to such a point that maybe we are like cockroaches. When you see one stupid person, there are a hundred more, waiting in the shadows for their fifteen minutes of fame.

We only have ourselves to blame. We REWARD stupidity with notoriety, money and celebrity. Twenty years ago if you said the name “Kardashian”, the only Kardashian anyone would know would be the guy who was O.J. Simpson’s friend and lawyer. Then his daughter made a sex tape with her boyfriend that got leaked and suddenly she and her sisters are pop culture icons and baby sister, Kylie, is the world’s youngest “self-made” billionaire with her design and cosmetic lines.

So what is the solution?

Oh honey, this is not that blog and I am not that blogger. I don’t have solutions. I only have rants. I don’t think there is a solution. As I said in previous posts, this world can only be cleansed by fire. 

In the meantime, we’re going to have to endure people throwing Kraft singles on their kids’ heads, having discussions with our teenagers about why they shouldn’t eat laundry products, and our local police departments having to issue warnings about jumping out of moving vehicles.

One More Thing…

Hey, y’all…I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have supported my Zazzle shop. I just received notification last week that my sales have earned me the Design Pro badge, which basically means when you go to my shop, you’ll see this:

The designation gives me a few perks behind the scenes, which are pretty cool. I couldn’t have done it without all of you, so thank you so very much!!!

In the spirit of today’s rant blog post, I created a couple of items for my shop that you might like. You’ll find the links below.