if usually short-lasting, high, but long-term use can lead to complications like brain damage

Are they talking about Tik Tok?

Chroming?

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.

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!

Jesus fucking christ, what even are we anymore man?

N2O is pretty awesome.

Chroming is just nitrous oxide?

That seems like a silly name.

Gains popularity? I’ve been seeing hundreds of those things discarded around the schools for years now

Thanks ticktock for making nitrous expensive again. My nitro coffee maker is too expensive to use again.

Getting strong “MTV made my child addicted to the devils lettuce” vibes from these comments

Back in my day we called it wippits obviously others not me.

Yes yes we all know the kids are shonking t-nubs or whatever, what else is new

How about don’t let your kids on a shitty social media platform to begin with. Besides it being a farm for data for the Chinese, it’s been shown via various studies the platform is like crack for your dopamine system.