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.
Jesus fucking christ, what even are we anymore man?
Chroming?
This is exactly where my mind went. Thank you stranger
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.
N2O is pretty awesome.
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!
Media is only going to highlight and even sometimes propagate the truly horrible trends.
No we are just going back 20 years for fashion trends, make everything chrome. Spray chrome can be inhaled is whats happening
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.
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
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.
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.
Ah yes. Witness them, dying for clout, shiny and chrome.
Dissapointing
Mediocre
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.
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.
Back in my day we called it wippits obviously others not me.
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...
If 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
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 genius
Gains popularity? I've been seeing hundreds of those things discarded around the schools for years now
Great. A generation of Charlie Kellys.
At least kids don't get to smoking them cigarettes like they used to'
Thanks ticktock for making nitrous expensive again. My nitro coffee maker is too expensive to use again.
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?
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?
