Meme History: The Tide Pods Challenge

It feels like a trope that parents used to scare their children into behaving well by telling them that if they used bad words they were going to wash their mouths out with soap, but in the 2010s, children all over the internet flipped the script on those parents by voluntarily eating soap. Enter: The Tide Pod Challenge. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlED21ikltA&feature=youtu.be

Tide Pods first hit the market

In February 2012, Proctor and Gamble introduced Tide Pods...