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Everything you didn’t want to know about the condom-snorting challenge
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Another day, another viral challenge. Or, perhaps more accurately, another “viral” “challenge.”
This time, it’s the condom-snorting challenge, which is when someone with a YouTube account sucks a condom into their nostril until it emerges from their mouth.
I do not know what this is supposed to prove.
And because we live in a post-Tide Pod era, people are losing their minds about condom-snorting right now. Several local news stations, for example, have covered it like it’s an epidemic — as if millions of teenagers across the country headed to school today with condoms dangling from their noses. Read more…
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No, Emma González did not rip up the U.S. Constitution
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Emma González’s arresting speech at the March for Our Lives is one we won’t forget for years to come.
But, as González and millions of people marched to demand legislation to prevent gun violence, fake images of the activist ripping the U.S. Constitution were being circulated by self-professed NRA supporters.
The image was debunked by Don Moynihan—professor of government at University of Wisconsin—who tweeted the doctored image alongside the original image, which showed González tearing up a gun-range target. The original image is a screenshot of a video produced by Teen Vogue to accompany an op-ed penned by the 18-year-old, entitled “Why This Generation Needs Gun Control. Read more…
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