When either the education they received at school or at home fails to teach people how to discern between useful social media content and hoax or joke content effectively, a viral Sleepy Chicken trend is the result. TikTok’s users are primarily under the age of 34, which means their education when it comes to their online rights and responsibilities is primarily coming from their schooling or parents - or both. Yet, rather than point a finger at anyone who might seem crazy enough to test run Sleepy Chicken at home, I think we need to query what level of education we are equipping TikTok’s demographic with, so that they can discern for themselves when a recipe is not what the doctor ordered. Scan the news, and there are stories appearing far and wide featuring warnings from doctors and other medical experts spelling out the dangers of trying to eat raw chicken - even if it is seasoned with a tasty blue-green syrup from your medicine cabinet. Sleepy chicken, if you’re among the fortunate percentage of people who’ve escaped this virus’ clutches and haven’t seen the slimy blue and green photo documentation yet, involves dousing uncooked chicken in NyQuil cold and flu syrup in an attempt to keep illness at bay.Īlthough there are countless wacky viral trends that take off online, this one is making major headlines due to the fact that people who are tempted to try Sleepy Chicken are getting seriously sick. No, it doesn’t involve making chickens go to sleep - it is far more unpalatable. Just when you thought that the world of TikTok couldn’t get any more weird, along comes the latest viral trend, ‘Sleepy Chicken’.
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