Young people, please rise up and shake this cooked shit off, you need to liberate my millennial ass.

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    As a person who grew up mostly socially isolated (and nearly became a chud), when you don’t have a community of normal people around you to tell you not to do this, and you don’t have people to reach out to for advice, it’s very easy to look at bad advice or nonsense in a vacuum (or on chud filled social media like 4chan) and think it has any merit

    For evidence: look up videos of students of nonsense martial arts who get soundly trounced by people who ACTUALLY know martial arts; they saw a guy waving his hands like he’s in a slap fight and ACTUALLY try to use that style against people who are trying to punch them in the face

    On the plus side though, most people who engage in this nonsense are chuds so…good

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      Bonesmashing is real and has vocal proponents online like Clavicular. Very niche in terms of people who actually “practice” it, but not invented like the furry litterbox is.

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      I think it’s more like the carnivore diet thing. There’s really influencers peddling this shit, but none of them actually do it.

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        People actually do the carnivore diet, and I’m sure people do this shit too. There’s a lot more people doing weird shit than you probably realize. I’m not sure whether social media has made it more prolific or just more visible

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          I’m sure there are people that have actually done it for more than a week, what I should say is for the most part they’re just liars. Yes, you can technically survive if you eat enough raw organ meat, but they aren’t doing that. They just lie. It’s easy, because what social media does is enable liars to lie more effectively than ever before.

          There’s a lot more people lying about doing weird shit than you seem to be giving credit. Whether it’s people lying about the carnivore diet or lying about beating themselves with hammers, they just lie for their brand or clout or just because it’s fun.

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            Sure, but I live in a place where people are absolutely doing some of that weird shit, and you can go meet them and talk to them and see that they are doing it. But maybe it’s not as extreme as the most outrageous examples on social media

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              You can see what they show you. I don’t see a reason to assume they aren’t just lying to your face. Social media makes it easier to lie, but it was always possible to lie in person. With the carnivore diet, if they’re drinking orange juice in secret you’d never know.

              The ones that end up in the hospital were telling the truth.

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        shit i thought they were saying carnival diet. all ive eaten for months is funnel cake and caramel popcorn and i wondered why i wasn’t losing weight and my teeth were starting to fall out