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[–] Selmafudd@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I mean it's a stretch, but maybe it's fake

[–] gullible@kbin.social 21 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Honestly, this one could be real. People poisoning themselves with caffeine powder isn’t particularly uncommon. A friend of mine OD’d on caffeine and spent a week in the hospital.

[–] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I always assume these texts are fake but I can totally hear

"A man prepared his own energy drink without reading the instructions. This is what happened to his brain."

In Chubby Emu's voice

Edit:

Would you look at that, I just found a similar video but the dosage is higher. So this green text could be real.

[–] 3ntranced@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Back when I was trying to wean off soda I tried caffeine pills. Avg is 200mg per tic tac sized pill so one could easily od and it's OTC as well

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 4 points 11 months ago

it might be, but it's completely plausible

[–] squiblet@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Huh? On 4chan?

[–] originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah I mean I came here to say this is fake but then I looked into it. It’s at least disturbingly plausible. I assumed there was no way a drink would have 200mg caffeine in powder form but here we are.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world -3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

For sure it's fake, 99% of greentext are. Most drink mixes are one or two scoops at most. No one would put 5 scoops of a random powder in a drink without at least glancing at the instructions. Not even a tired idiot.

[–] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago

Bruh, I'm a moron with no regard for self and a seemingly instant high tolerance to most substances I've tried. I would do some dumb shit like this and meet my match.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 6 points 11 months ago

You underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

[–] squiblet@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

My dad would. My Ef-gf would. Neither ever read the instructions for anything. The other day my dad was out to heat a frozen tamale. Peeled off the wrapping while it was frozen. Stabbed it with scissors (?). then put it in the oven to bake it. Definitely not what the package said to do.