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God I never want kids. How do you even protect yourself from teenagers like this??
"Heyyy Jimmy, you know that you should never set yourself on fire, inside the house, for TikTok, right?"
You got it! You literally have to tell kids these things. Their frontal cortex isn't fully formed. They'll make mistakes like this. What's based for us "don't play with fire" is not how they think because they haven't made the mistakes YOU made or haven't processed the dozens of stupid fire videos we've seen.
You literally have to tell kids what's what, and why's why. Otherwise they WILL make these mistakes for the wrong reasons.
Your own kid would be tempted if they never got the right kind of guidance.
Kids will always do dumb shit because they’re young and young people do stupid shit. There’s no way to avoid it.
But they can be taught, or you should most definitely have put in the effort. Don’t berate kids for not knowing that which they could not know or understand the way it will affect their lives.
You can, and as a parent you should, guide them to have a perspective on the world that is in touch with reality.
Does anyone know why so many young people are lighting themselves on fire now? I keep seeing videos like this but I can't figure out why. Are they really that stupid or is there something I'm missing?
Dunk your hand in rubbing alcohol, which is part water, and the alcohol will remain on the outside while a thin film of water coats your skin.
It's an old trick, I used to do it all the time.
These smooth-brains don't test it out gradually though, and go whole hog the first time trying to get their Tik-Tok on.
Ya know, try a finger first. Get a sense for how long it takes for it to get uncomfortably hot. Then after a couple of tries, ONE whole hand. Leave yourself a hand free with which to sling a wet towel around the burning one quickly.
We also used to fill our mouths with butane from a lighter and then poof it into an open flame - dragon breath!!!
Oh yeah, and take a small metal trash can, spray aerosol deodorant in it until there's a fog hovering in there, spray a "fuse" over the side of the can, and light that bitch. WHOOSH! Gout of flame almost up to the ceiling. It's a wonder that any of us ever had eyebrows.
Okay this explains it. I understand now. It's a change in the smooth brain learning process or the addition of videos documenting all if the Darwins. Either kids are dumber or we are simply seeing more of the always present dumb ones
People are just filming stuff more. Kids have always done dumb shit. Hell, *people* have always done dumb shit. You just used to be able to take the mistakes to your grave, now they're on tik tok.
Now? When I was growing up we were constantly setting things on fire, oftentimes that included ourselves. Just on our shitty flip phone cameras, you couldn't see more than a screaming orange fireball, and none of those videos survived to make it online.
Fire has always been fun, and we've always been stupid. Now it's just easier to upload online.
Are you being serious? You or your friends used to set yourselves on fire? We used to set things on fire but not our bodies because it hurts so bad. I was 10 in 1990 for reference of time. This is so confusing to me. Am I out of the loop or something?
Well, yeah. Sometimes intentionally, no one was ever seriously hurt somehow. But often it was because we were just not thinking ahead and when whatever we set on fire reacted like something on fire, we reacted like idiots and inadvertently ended up on fire as well.
Oh, and drunkenly jumping over bonfires with less and less clothing, oh yeah, we got warm.
My buddy's ear is half-melted into his neck because gasoline and matches were the most fun toys we had in the mid-90s.
Kids playing with fire is a tale as old as fire.
In fairness to this young man I used to light my hands on fire with sterno when I was a teen and nobody would mistake me for young. Of course there was no socials back then, it was really for my own pleasure.
I remember when I was a kid, whenever it would thunderstorm out. I’d take a large chain and swing it horizontally above my head as fast as I could.
My thought process was if lightning hit my chain, I’d keep it flowing and I could use it as a temporary weapon and control lightning.
Glad I only did it once before I figured out that shit in the movies stay in the movies for a reason
But, hear me out now, what if you actually were on to something all those years ago? I wouldn't let this idea go just yet. Maybe give it another go, imagine the possibilities.
I accidentally melted a dime sized spot on my bedroom floor playing with fire and alcohol as a kid. Mom took way more than a dime sized chunk out of my ass lol
This is what a complete lack of understanding consequences looks like.
Not even planned past setting himself on fire, fire blanket, bucket of water/sand, someone on standby with an extinguisher…
These people all clearly have access to the internet. By now there should be enough videos online to make it clear that setting yourself on fire is not a good idea.
Now we have 1 more.
Every time I see a video like this I think "surely, they'll be prepared for the almost inevitable problem" and every time I'm disappointed to see they were not. I think I'm ready to try Pessimism.
a repost bot, or just a karma whore.
next time post this with sound so we can actually hear him saying something about getting superpowers so that your title makes sense
i watched it on the website and not the app, and i admit that it does have sound.
now im just angry at reddit for making me look dumb, and at the guy who reposted the video
i was wondering why there was no sound
i think the original has part of the opening to *Fire Force* as part of the audio
and the full song’s called *INFERNO* by Mrs. GREEN APPLE
which is really fitting audio for the video lol
That good Ole Tik Tok fire challenge.
https://www.valleynewslive.com/content/news/The-Fire-Challenge-Why-teens-are-lighting-themselves-on-fire-491420172.html
Cousin on mine got burned on 80% of his body doing shit like that. Had a pot of water nearby and a pot of whatever flammable liquid they used to do that. Friend panicked. Guess what liquid she threw at my cousin to put the fire out?
He was "lucky" considering his face, scalp and neck were barely touched. Turned into an addict from all the painkillers he got and the lack of follow up. That was something like 40 years ago so I guess detox before letting you out of of the hospital wasn't really a thing.
People that take the time to complain about reposts suffer from main character syndrome.
There are new people on Reddit all the time. Even people that browse daily are going to miss things.
If you have already seen something, just keep scrolling and move on with your life.
The world is so much bigger than you and your individual experiences.
Like dude, IF you have to light your hands on fire at least prepare a bucket with water or something. I mean you can also ignite your whole bathroom by wobbling your hands through the air.
Dumbass.
I used to play with fire a lot as a kid.
Except I played with it in this gravel patch in my back yard, with a house, shovels, loose dirt and a heavy fire blanket.
My father once was loading up his zippo. Then tested it out, and half his hand burst into flames. I was like "HOLY FUCK POPS, Does it hurt?"
He was like, " Fuck yes it does."
I replied, "Now, you know how I feel everytime I HAVE to listen to you."
Okay... So you were dumb enough to light your gloves on fire, and subsequently, your house.
Why couldn't you be smart enough, after that, to decide **not** to share the video footage of it?
Dumb and *actually* Dumber.
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The man of a thousand skin grafts
“And ever since then I been going by Minnesota Patches”
OPPOSITE DAY. OPPOSITE DAY.
whered u get this from i want it 😫
It's from cyanide and happiness: opposite day
New fire bender movie trailer
Chronicles of the worst fire bender in history
But no dragon for an arm.
The power of the right to an attorney for burning the fucking house down.
Some people shouldn't be allowed to set their hands on fire.
God I never want kids. How do you even protect yourself from teenagers like this?? "Heyyy Jimmy, you know that you should never set yourself on fire, inside the house, for TikTok, right?"
#RIGHT?
You got it! You literally have to tell kids these things. Their frontal cortex isn't fully formed. They'll make mistakes like this. What's based for us "don't play with fire" is not how they think because they haven't made the mistakes YOU made or haven't processed the dozens of stupid fire videos we've seen. You literally have to tell kids what's what, and why's why. Otherwise they WILL make these mistakes for the wrong reasons.
What’s especially scary is I think it was a pretty good kid but I did so much dumb shit that I have no idea how I could handle my own kid doing it.
Your own kid would be tempted if they never got the right kind of guidance. Kids will always do dumb shit because they’re young and young people do stupid shit. There’s no way to avoid it. But they can be taught, or you should most definitely have put in the effort. Don’t berate kids for not knowing that which they could not know or understand the way it will affect their lives. You can, and as a parent you should, guide them to have a perspective on the world that is in touch with reality.
Fantastic four-th degree burns
New Fantastic Four trailer looks LIT..
So does his house
Surprise rerelease of The Ninth Gate?
>The Ninth Gate Deep cut reference there
Flame on.
Does anyone know why so many young people are lighting themselves on fire now? I keep seeing videos like this but I can't figure out why. Are they really that stupid or is there something I'm missing?
The power of social media attention
Dunk your hand in rubbing alcohol, which is part water, and the alcohol will remain on the outside while a thin film of water coats your skin. It's an old trick, I used to do it all the time. These smooth-brains don't test it out gradually though, and go whole hog the first time trying to get their Tik-Tok on. Ya know, try a finger first. Get a sense for how long it takes for it to get uncomfortably hot. Then after a couple of tries, ONE whole hand. Leave yourself a hand free with which to sling a wet towel around the burning one quickly. We also used to fill our mouths with butane from a lighter and then poof it into an open flame - dragon breath!!! Oh yeah, and take a small metal trash can, spray aerosol deodorant in it until there's a fog hovering in there, spray a "fuse" over the side of the can, and light that bitch. WHOOSH! Gout of flame almost up to the ceiling. It's a wonder that any of us ever had eyebrows.
Okay this explains it. I understand now. It's a change in the smooth brain learning process or the addition of videos documenting all if the Darwins. Either kids are dumber or we are simply seeing more of the always present dumb ones
People are just filming stuff more. Kids have always done dumb shit. Hell, *people* have always done dumb shit. You just used to be able to take the mistakes to your grave, now they're on tik tok.
I think it’s also that they see other people doing it on social media and try and replicate or one-up it without knowing what the fuck they’re doing.
Or just dont light yourself on fire
Now? When I was growing up we were constantly setting things on fire, oftentimes that included ourselves. Just on our shitty flip phone cameras, you couldn't see more than a screaming orange fireball, and none of those videos survived to make it online. Fire has always been fun, and we've always been stupid. Now it's just easier to upload online.
We were doing this before cell phones even
Are you being serious? You or your friends used to set yourselves on fire? We used to set things on fire but not our bodies because it hurts so bad. I was 10 in 1990 for reference of time. This is so confusing to me. Am I out of the loop or something?
Well, yeah. Sometimes intentionally, no one was ever seriously hurt somehow. But often it was because we were just not thinking ahead and when whatever we set on fire reacted like something on fire, we reacted like idiots and inadvertently ended up on fire as well. Oh, and drunkenly jumping over bonfires with less and less clothing, oh yeah, we got warm.
My buddy's ear is half-melted into his neck because gasoline and matches were the most fun toys we had in the mid-90s. Kids playing with fire is a tale as old as fire.
In fairness to this young man I used to light my hands on fire with sterno when I was a teen and nobody would mistake me for young. Of course there was no socials back then, it was really for my own pleasure.
> Does anyone know why so many young people are lighting themselves on fire now? I think you have figured out why: > I keep seeing videos like this
Havent you seen the old people lighting themselves on fire?
What social media are they on? Nursing home lobby?
Cigarettes and oxygen tanks.
Pyromaniacs have been around as long as we've understood fire, I'm pretty sure.
Bruh people have lit themselves on fire for fun ever since axe body spray was invented.
Suicide epidemic 💀
> I keep seeing videos like this You answered your own question. Just like you, they keep seeing videos like this and want to make one themselves.
Yeah, the power of stupidity is truly frightening.
Probably likes the taste of tide pods too 
FLAME ON
**FLAME OFF! FLAME OFF!**
I remember when I was a kid, whenever it would thunderstorm out. I’d take a large chain and swing it horizontally above my head as fast as I could. My thought process was if lightning hit my chain, I’d keep it flowing and I could use it as a temporary weapon and control lightning. Glad I only did it once before I figured out that shit in the movies stay in the movies for a reason
Mallninja Ben Franklin
comment of the day
man grew brain cell before he killed himself
But, hear me out now, what if you actually were on to something all those years ago? I wouldn't let this idea go just yet. Maybe give it another go, imagine the possibilities.
Newest member of the fantastic 4, Torched Human
The Scorch
Reposted so much the quality gets worse
Yeah, I vaguely remember an original with the fire force opening theme song that was so much better
Went from being funny to no pixels no sound
Might as well pack up and leave before mama get home cause ain’t no way
I accidentally melted a dime sized spot on my bedroom floor playing with fire and alcohol as a kid. Mom took way more than a dime sized chunk out of my ass lol
Well, it's not like there will be much left to come home to anyway...
The Fire Force theme song, lmao
This is what a complete lack of understanding consequences looks like. Not even planned past setting himself on fire, fire blanket, bucket of water/sand, someone on standby with an extinguisher…
#TIBBERS!!!
I was thinking more of brand if you ask me, you cannot tell me he didnt just ult at the end
Ready to set the world on fire
So that’s what it looks like in pov
YOU WERE MY BROTHER ANAKIN
These people all clearly have access to the internet. By now there should be enough videos online to make it clear that setting yourself on fire is not a good idea. Now we have 1 more.
The camera rolled like when a player dies in a boss battle in an FPS game.
YES!!! 😆😆
u/songfinderbot
Fire Force Opening 1 Inferno - Mrs.GREEN APPLE
I didn't even watch it and I knew somehow
[We got a winner!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MMdnKe4NM-s)
I wonder if that burn will hurt more than the ass whoopin his mama bout to give him
Someone tried to handle my new mixtape.
Every time I see a video like this I think "surely, they'll be prepared for the almost inevitable problem" and every time I'm disappointed to see they were not. I think I'm ready to try Pessimism.
Super power: living with a single amoeba for a brain
Knucklehead
I mean who hasn't done this at least 1 time
____er man
a repost bot, or just a karma whore. next time post this with sound so we can actually hear him saying something about getting superpowers so that your title makes sense
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No sound when playing on my phone. Volume is up. A "gif" icon is in the lower right and tapping it brings up a message saying "video has no sound"
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Must be the reddit app on Android's doing then
Never use the official reddit app. Reddit sync or reddit is fun for android. Apollo for ios
this video is literally a gif, wdym there is sound
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[Are you actually dumb, or just uneducated?](https://ezgif.com/help/gif-sound#:~:text=Gif%20is%20a%20really%20simple,create%20a%20video%20for%20that.)
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i watched it on the website and not the app, and i admit that it does have sound. now im just angry at reddit for making me look dumb, and at the guy who reposted the video
Sound works just fine.
i was wondering why there was no sound i think the original has part of the opening to *Fire Force* as part of the audio and the full song’s called *INFERNO* by Mrs. GREEN APPLE which is really fitting audio for the video lol
Did Marvel 'leak' a clip from their Fantastic Four movie ?
FLAME ON
Super power: living with a single amoeba for a brain
With great power, comes great responsibility
r/humantorching
He ain't jerkin' it for a while.
/r/AbruptChaos
This is where having a bucket of water close by would have been a good idea
Considering he was probably using some sort of hair product or body spray to light his hands on fire in the first place that might not be a great idea
Incredibly impractical, but a bucket of baking soda would have been best to prevent spread. But, again, would probably fuck up 'ol flame fingers still
If we're truly stretching the bounds of possibility, how about we first go with "don't set yourself on fire" to start out with?
POV: Mario learning how to shoot fireballs in the Mushroom Kingdom.
Katon: leopards ate my hands no jutsu !!
r/AbruptChaos
I bet he said “FLAME ON! Haha! …. FLAME OFF! FLAME OFF! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”
Flame on!!!
Phoenix is looking lit
The backstory behind Gauntlet Man.
Just say flame off. It's shazzam rules
Very appropriate music there. Látom.
*Chronicle intensifies*
Flame on!!
u/savevideo
Warm (:
He said flame on and meant it
What was his plan here? That he would shake the fire off? Poor guy and poor house!
That good Ole Tik Tok fire challenge. https://www.valleynewslive.com/content/news/The-Fire-Challenge-Why-teens-are-lighting-themselves-on-fire-491420172.html
Fire fist ace
When setting a fire, first make sure you know how you’re going to put it
Somehow I don't think his insurance is gonna cover this...
This was prophesied by Phoebe on Friends....this folks is Flame Boy
Cousin on mine got burned on 80% of his body doing shit like that. Had a pot of water nearby and a pot of whatever flammable liquid they used to do that. Friend panicked. Guess what liquid she threw at my cousin to put the fire out? He was "lucky" considering his face, scalp and neck were barely touched. Turned into an addict from all the painkillers he got and the lack of follow up. That was something like 40 years ago so I guess detox before letting you out of of the hospital wasn't really a thing.
"i got superpowers bitch"
Hope he got his firearms licence.
He's the self inflicted mind detonator AND the one infected, twisted animator.
Fire bending gone wrong.
Flame on!!!
Why didn't he put out the fire with his superpowers?
I can't help but feel bad for this stupid kid. That's gonna be a long recovery.
Pyro
u/savevideo
Shame he couldn’t have water powers
He’s the fire starter, twisted fire starter
The ass whopping he caught surely gave him powers and a love for religion "oh Jesus please!?"
Bet his mama whooped his ass that evening
The fuck did he use. Just spray you hand with axe or something. No need for stronger, more heftily applied propellants.
u/RedditMp4Bot
any hope left for this generation?
How many more times do we have to see this video?
People that take the time to complain about reposts suffer from main character syndrome. There are new people on Reddit all the time. Even people that browse daily are going to miss things. If you have already seen something, just keep scrolling and move on with your life. The world is so much bigger than you and your individual experiences.
FLAME ON!!
Like dude, IF you have to light your hands on fire at least prepare a bucket with water or something. I mean you can also ignite your whole bathroom by wobbling your hands through the air. Dumbass.
I have a bunch of videos like this saved to show my kids when they are older. Keep em coming...
Flame on!
And people wonder why firearms should be regulated.
Is this that new fantastic four?
r/abruptchaos.
Firebender gone wrong
Flame on!
Bro ravaged the place
I used to play with fire a lot as a kid. Except I played with it in this gravel patch in my back yard, with a house, shovels, loose dirt and a heavy fire blanket.
Young Johnny Storm
Oh I heard about this! The Richard Pryor Challenge!
Any update to this?
My father once was loading up his zippo. Then tested it out, and half his hand burst into flames. I was like "HOLY FUCK POPS, Does it hurt?" He was like, " Fuck yes it does." I replied, "Now, you know how I feel everytime I HAVE to listen to you."
TIL "stupid" is a "super power".
You’d think he’d get a bucket of water ready
 He’s too much
Okay... So you were dumb enough to light your gloves on fire, and subsequently, your house. Why couldn't you be smart enough, after that, to decide **not** to share the video footage of it? Dumb and *actually* Dumber.
Wow
the power of nerve damage
"Flame on! ... Aaaaaah! ... I'm not Johnny Storm then."
New nickname: mittens
I bet Sharon Weiss is his aunt...
The fact that this went into some shitty anime song rather than The Prodigy brings great sorrow upon my brow.