Experts Warn of Growing Inhalant Trend on TikTok as 'Chroming' Gains Popularity
Experts Warn of Growing Inhalant Trend on TikTok as 'Chroming' Gains Popularity
Researchers have analyzed dozens of videos amassing millions of views on TikTok that feature the trend.
Chroming?
This is exactly where my mind went. Thank you stranger
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.
As usual for the type of screeching and breathless hit piece that these types of things inevitably become, it seems that two very distinct things are being conflated here in a probably deliberate attempt to make them appear equivalent.
The headline image shows a bunch of nitrous oxide cartridges or "whippets" discarded on the ground, and there is one lonely mention of nitrous down at the very bottom of the article. The article puts a lot of scary words around "inhalants" but stops short of defining which ones they're actually talking about, and I'm guessing (having not watched any of the TikTok videos nor do I intend to) that nitrous is not the actual, or at least only, concern here. Either that or they're trying hard to imply that nitrous fries your brain as much as huffing, say, tetrafluoroethane.
Doing nitrous (or whippets, or hippie crack, or laughing gas, or whatever you want to call it this decade) is neither new, nor is it particularly harmful provided you can manage not to do it in such a moronic way that you asphyxiate yourself or pathologically huff the stuff at the edge of high precipices or while driving or something.
Inhaling propellant gasses from aerosol cans, meanwhile, i.e. the usual sort of "huffing," is monumentally stupid and also a fast track to permanent brain damage.
Just make sure you're packin' the right kind of chrome, choom.
The newest TikTok trend and thus drug problem seems to be centered around galaxy gas. And they seem to know what they're doing:
Yay real information
The most dangerous thing about NO2 is freezing of finger tips, followed by slight headache.
But again, it's never save to inhale stuff not produced to be inhaled (but for ingestion at least, which can't be said for paint or gasoline)
Inhaling gasoline sounds like the fastest route to chemical pneumonia, among other nasty things. Signed, a professional fire eater.
We need legal access to shrooms.
Taxed and regulated IV DMT could do more for humanity than any other singular act of government.
Everything old is new again
Remember huffing? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
I remember huffing gasoline, butane, Freon, and super glue back in the 90s. It’s a wonder I can breathe at all these days, as well as coherently string more than two words together.
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!
before tiktok we had to rely on our friends sketchy older brother to tell us new ways to get high.
Same as it ever was.
I think the running conspiracy is that the platform is a psyop to get idiots to try doing idiotic things they wouldn't otherwise get exposed to.
From what I've heard, the Chinese version of the app's recommendations algorithm leans towards educational content instead of topics literally trying to tear at the seams of modern society.
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.
Remember the "Milk Crate Challenge" which resulted in horrific accidents?
Idk man, at some point it's just Darwinism.
TikTok is an app that's not completely controlled by YTs. So we should expect to see a bunch of sensational headlines demonizing the company until it gets banned.
Here in Stockholm it is common to see spent 1.3kg N2O bottles just lying on the sidewalk in the morning, especially after a weekend.
And I doubt that is much dentistry going on on a weekend night on the streets of Stockholm.
The companies selling the N20 bottles even advertise on Youtube.
I just had a look at the cost of a 1.3kg bottle of N2O, it is less than the equivalent of 50USD.
And now I see that they have flavoured N2O...
I just want 12 tonnes of strawberry flavoured whipped cream, dude.
That's why I need such a big bottle of N2O. I'm a culinary geniusIf a 1.3Kg bottle of N2O is $50, am I right in suspecting thats not a lot of high, but a shit ton of foam latte's
When I was much younger we just called it huffing, whether it was spray paint cans or gas.
Doing nitrous isn’t huffing, tho. It’s infinitely safer than huffing paint or duster.
That's what we called it too, but we didn't have anyone to give us instructions or make it some sort of challenge.
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.
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
Jesus fucking christ, what even are we anymore man?
Chimps. We have always been chimps. We are returning to monke
N2O is pretty awesome.
Right up until you suddenly die of a brain aneurysm because your dumbass thought it was a safe legal high. There is nothing awesome about that.
Getting strong “MTV made my child addicted to the devils lettuce” vibes from these comments
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.
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!
How much is it per cup?
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?
Yes yes we all know the kids are shonking t-nubs or whatever, what else is new
Gains popularity? I've been seeing hundreds of those things discarded around the schools for years now
At least kids don't get to smoking them cigarettes like they used to'
Back in my day we called it wippits obviously others not me.
Great. A generation of Charlie Kellys.
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.
I was forbidden from having a MySpace account. It didn’t stop me.
