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Social Media Disasters: From Childhood Burns to Colorful Infidelity
Biden's scheduled call with Putin evokes memories of Reagan-era diplomacy when world leaders met face-to-face instead of through screens. Those personal encounters represented something powerful that today's digital diplomacy lacks.
Skepticism has become our default setting. The White House Border Patrol deportation videos showing gang members being flown to Venezuelan prisons look too pristine, too perfectly staged. After years of pandemic information warfare, many Americans question everything they see regardless of political alignment. Without before-and-after documentation of specific individuals being processed, these videos feel like carefully constructed political theater rather than transparent policy execution.
The dangers of social media manifest in increasingly tragic ways. Seven-year-old Scarlett Selby ended up in a coma with horrific burns after attempting a viral TikTok challenge involving freezing and microwaving a toy that exploded, covering her with molten material that adhered to her skin. This incident raises critical questions: Why do young children have access to platforms designed for teens and adults? Where is the parental supervision? The consequences of digital influence on developing minds continue to escalate from concerning to catastrophic.
In a bizarre twist of modern life, one woman discovered her husband's affair after posting about mysterious green stains appearing throughout her home. When Reddit users suggested new jeans as the culprit, she initially dismissed the idea since neither she nor her husband wore denim. The realization that someone else's clothing was leaving traces on everything from furniture to her white cat led her to uncover incriminating messages confirming the infidelity. Technology reveals truth in unexpected ways, sometimes through something as simple as dye transfer.
Have you been online since social media's early days? Share your first platform experience and what you initially posted. Looking back at those digital beginnings helps us understand how profoundly these technologies have transformed our relationships, information consumption, and daily lives.
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Well, hello, good morning, happy Tuesday. The president talks to Putin today, not in person. I wish he would fly over there and talk to him, though. Remember when Reagan did that with the Russian leaders back then? Yeah, I wish he would do that. I wish they would just come together, meet face-to-face, that would be frickin' awesome. But no, he's going to talk to him on the phone, which is fine. Maybe they'll have a little zoom, facetime or something, I don't know. Uh, I hope they can work it out. Also, the uh, rf, the robert, the jfk files should all be released today.
Speaker 1:I wonder what we're gonna see. If anything, I think keith malinak put on there. What are we gonna? A bunch of black Sharpie lines is probably what we're going to see. Who knows? All right, we're going to move on to a couple of topics here that I have. I don't know. I posted something for the New York Post.
Speaker 1:You guys have seen this White House, border Patrol troll critics with deportation closing time meme video Can't stay here. You guys have seen it out. There's been all over the social media platforms and that with Kristi Noem making her high quality used salesman car like videos and commercials. I am getting a little skeptical. I don know. Call me a skeptic again. This whole lockdown covid thing just totally has ruined me any kind of trust I have in anything, even if it comes from us, the republicans, or the or the conservatives, because these these, how do we know? How do we know the like with that video, with the gang members being deported on the planes and then going to Venezuela into their prison or wherever it was? How do we know it's them? How do we know that this is because if you look at the video, everything is so pristine, even the guards' uniforms. All of it looks brand new. I'm not saying they're actors. I'm not saying they're actors or anything. Maybe these are just videos that were created, created throughout the year, and they've been put together in a montage. I need to see before and after pictures. I need to see the people that we've captured their pictures and the pictures of them in the prison. I don't know that I believe any of this, that they rounded all of them up and took them. I don't know. I don't know if I believe it. Okay, call me a skeptic, all right.
Speaker 1:Moving on to my topics, the two topics that I have, one of them we're going to start this sad, poor little girl, seven years old. She was in a coma with horrific burns after a TikTok challenge causes toy explosion. I have lots of questions. Number one why is she looking at TikTok? Because she's seven. You know so much, so, so much for the age you know thing. How is she looking at tiktok at seven years old? She better not have her own damn phone and she better not have tiktok on it. But obviously she's looking at tiktok because she got this idea from tiktok and where were her parents? Now, listen, I know accidents happen. I'm not saying every single accident. You know we need to blame the parents. Accidents do happen, I get it, but this is I don't know. This is crazy.
Speaker 1:A seven-year-old Missouri girl named Scarlett Selby was left in a coma after a squishy toy exploded while she attempted a viral TikTok challenge. It all happened so quickly. The victim's father, josh Selby, 44, told Kennedy News while recounting their horrific ordeal. I heard her scream, so he wasn't present. He wasn't in the room and it was like a blood-curdling scream. The tot who resides in Festus was copying a blood-curdling scream. The tot who resides in Festus was copying a challenge she saw on TikTok and YouTube where people placed Neato a squishy stress cube made of rubber with polyvinyl alcohol, filling in the freezer and then microwave it for several seconds to make it more malleable. She'd frozen the Neato cube the night before and the next day she showed me it was rock solid and was playing with it. She said Selby. She stuck it in the microwave. I was watching her and saw her touch it to check it wasn't too hot when she pulled it out. This harm so apparently he was present.
Speaker 1:The harmless seeming experiment went awry after the gelatinous toy exploded, showering scarlet's face and chest with molten goo. So selby reportedly heard his daughter scream in agony, which he ran over and tried to scrape the burning goo off her body and clothes, which was difficult given how thick and sticky it had become. Whenever I touched her, my hand stuck to her. Ooh, lamented the distraught father. He said he ripped her shirt off of her because the jelly was adhered to it as well. Dad and mom, amanda blankenship, 35, drove the imperiled daughter 30 minutes to st. 30 minutes, 30 freaking minutes. Why didn't they just call an ambulance? Why did they not call 9-1-1? I don't know, it was terrible how scared she wasn't. Yeah, I guess maybe they didn't think it was that bad, I don't't know, oh my gosh. So why did they let her do this? This is so sad, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:The article goes on and on and on. I have questions F-ing TikTok, but keep your kids. She was seven. She was seven. She does not need to be looking at social media. Stop it All right. This next one is also kind of a long topic. It's kind of funny but kind of sad at the same time. I don't know.
Speaker 1:A cheating husband is outed by accident after his wife goes online asking for household cleaning tips. So here's the story she kept getting this green hue all over her furniture, her bed sheets, the cat, whatever the cat yeah, I think the cat is mentioned in here and she just couldn't get it to go away. And so she took going to online asking and showing pictures of everything. And she's like how do I have this all over my house? What is it? Somebody tell me what it is. And somebody said oh, those. Oh, I have bought jeans from Gap and the brand new jeans. I don't know what dye they put in it, but it gets everywhere and you can't get it out of anything. Well, she said well, that can't be. We don't, I don't have any jeans like that. Well, apparently her husband's girlfriend did. All right, here we go.
Speaker 1:A woman claims to have learned her other half was cheating on her after noticing various items in their house starting to mysteriously change color. So he had the chick over in their house. Oh my gosh, everything I say chick it could have been a guy, I don't know. Everything in my house is turning green. Reddit user said innocently, shared to the Cleaning Tips thread, hoping that a user in the Million Strong subreddit might have some advice. Oh my gosh, the cat. Oh my gosh. How does the cat? They have a white cat. How does the cat get? The cat is sitting on the lady's lap, I guess. Oh my gosh, the cat has even got this blue greenish tint to it. Oh, it's so funny.
Speaker 1:She experienced that she first noticed her cat's fur taking on a greenish tint before seeing that her bed sheets, feet, couch phone charger and wall had changed hues. She initially thought it was due to mold or her laundry detergent pods, but eventually tested those theories and decided they couldn't be the cause. Baffled, the woman eventually posted photos blah, blah, blah. Fellow users suggested it could be caused by the cat's getting into mysterious green material, her furniture or even a medical complication. But the woman tracked her cat's movements blah, blah, blah, she noted. Okay, she said I got to find out what it is because none of that was working.
Speaker 1:Eventually, an offhand remark from a fellow Redditor, intended as a joke, led to a heartbreaking revelation. Someone suggested that the discoloration could be caused by a new pair of old navy jeans Excuse me, gap, I'm sorry, forgive me, don't sue me. New pair of old navy jeans. Excuse me, gap, I'm sorry, forgive me, don't sue me. It was old navy jeans, not gap. However, the same thing. However, the woman quickly rejected the notion, claiming that neither she nor her husband wear jeans. Uh-oh, imagine. This is how you discover he's having an affair with some old navy wearing woman. From the cat turning green, someone commented.
Speaker 1:Unfortunately, the bizarre scenario turned out to be the truth. I hate to break it to you, but you were right on the nose with this comment. Oh, my goodness. She explained that. She nervously laughed and checked her joint bank account for any old navy purchases, admitting she'd been left with a strange feeling after reading the comment. Oh boy, I've already had suspicions on a possible affair from the multiple last minute overtime shifts and just overall changes in behavior. Oh, also, my husband has cheated before, so I've always been a bit anxious. Oh my gosh, as she spiraled, she checked her husband's phone and discovered some sexy Instagram DMs from a woman who wears jeans. That was enough. Oh my gosh. Okay, wow, wow, how sad. All right, I guess that's all I've got for you today, nothing political, and we need to do the question of the day.
Speaker 1:Okay, since we talked about the little girl being seven years old on TikTok and doing that stupid TikTok challenge, let's ask a question about, because I know my listeners are old like me. Well, I'm sorry, they're my age. Sorry, not old, you're my age. So you remember what life was like before the internet and before social media. So my question is because you all have it now, you have Twitter X, you have. I don't know if you have Facebook or not. You may have at one time or another. My question is do you remember the very first time you got on social media and do you remember the first? Do you remember the first social media platform you had and do you remember your first post that you had? I got Twitter when it first came out. I've had so many different handles though over the years and I remember getting Facebook and I didn't understand any of it at first. I don't remember the first thing I posted on any of it, so, but do you All? Right, I got to go. Thanks for listening. Bye.
