A mysterious wave of severe tics swept through teenagers worldwide, baffling neurologists until investigators uncovered a digital culprit reshaping adolescent behavior in real time.
This is like something right out of a Southpark episode.
'had been watching a small number of Tourette influencers ’
Yeah I remember this. At least one of the human cancers didn’t even have tourettes and was just acting for views, to the complete surprise of no one with half a brain
Müller-Vahl asked the obvious follow-up question. What she found was that almost every patient in the outbreak had been watching a small number of Tourette influencers with very large followings who documented their own tics on YouTube and TikTok.
Why the fuck do these influencers exist.
to help expose people with tourette’s to those who don’t know what people with tourette’s live like so that more people can treat them with dignity.
When I read “influencer” I read it as like “grifter”. I concede what you’re describing may not be bad.
Mass sociogenic illness
It’s called a fad. Reducing exposure has always been the solution.
Fads tend not to cause physical illness.
That’s absolutely not true.
That is a LOT of words to say teenagers are fucking stupid.
Maybe I’m going out on a limb here but I’m not sure people on the fediverse are the best to be criticizing others because of a meme about beans.
Did you say Beans?