I woke up this morning to a news article titled, "Please Don't Eat a Tide Pod, No Matter What the Memes Say."

I wasn't really sure what New York Magazine was referring to, so I started looking deeper into this. The MSU Memes page was filled with Tide Pod memes, Twitter is overflowing with more memes referring to the digestion of Tide Pods. Tide is trending and it's not about the recent National Championship Alabama just won... it's about EATING TIDE PODS.

I mean, we are mere weeks into 2018 and eating laundry detergent pods is the new thing??

I found that the memes don't stop. I mean you can now even make your own edible tide pods. This is genuinely the dumbest thing I've ever seen, yet I find myself laughing at most of these memes. The serious thing, however, is that adults suffering from dementia and children die because they eat these, thinking they are candy. This is what sparked this outrageous Tide Pod Challenge.

What's crazy to me is how fast this spread. I went to bed last night not realizing what was happening, and woke up this morning with Tide Pods all over my feed. Even one of my old professors got into it...

It doesn't stop there, the memes are endless. 2018 is off to a great start; 2 weeks in and Logan Paul is banned from YouTube for his disgusting video, people are eating Tide Pods, and MSU's activity board has hosted a dildo making night. What is this year? Morale is low for 20-something's apparently. Seriously, don't eat these things. It's poison. Don't be an idiot.