Current Events > TikTok trend shows users sharing their hypothetical death row meals

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https://nypost.com/2023/01/15/tiktok-trend-shows-users-sharing-their-hypothetical-death-row-meals/

If you were on death row, what would your last meal look like? TikToks latest bizarre trend has users asking themselves that question and uploading videos that disclose what they would choose to eat if they found themselves in the less-than-ideal situation. Diet Coke chicken pad Thai, saltines, [and] D chocolate chip cookie dough, made up user @chai.lattes.4ever oddly specific list. For another user called @babeinthewoodz, sushi, garden salsa Sun Chips, a blue raspberry lemonade from Sonic and a bowl of Orbeez chalked up another odd request. A third user named @drakeerussell said Chick-Fil-As chicken nuggets, Arnold Palmer half iced tea/half lemonade, caesar salad with chicken, Dots pretzels, Nerds and more comprised the list. Dr. Pepper, Philly cheesesteak, Ben & Jerrys ice cream, Chick-Fil-A, Takis, sushi and other popular foods earned spots on several peoples lists.

Despite its popularity on the controversial video-sharing platform, not everyone is on board with the #deathrowmeal trend. Tricia Crimmins, a staff writer with the Daily Dot, criticized the trend as being in poor taste. TikTokers are documenting what theyd want to be their last meals as wellbut, of course, they arent on death row. Thus many have found the trend to be insensitive and tone-deaf, she wrote. Crimmins criticized some users for saying goodbye at the end of their videos and making a more obvious allusion to death, but the majority of criticism in the post stemmed from users alleged lack of racial consciousness. TikToker @ngozimusa is quoted in the piece as criticizing the trend for racial insensitivity, saying she will abstain from participating because there is a direct correlation between race and capital punishment in the United States. People of color have accounted for a disproportionate 43 percent of executions since 1976, and the large majority of people doing this trend are not people of color, she added. She also bashed the allegedly insensitive trend further, saying that people of color are seven times more likely to be wrongfully convicted of murder in the United States.

Must be a slow news day.

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this could be an article on The Onion

this should be an article on The Onion

I ask for a McRib and a Shamrock Shake from McDonald's

It is not often I will defend some dumb little zoomer tiktok trend but getting all mad about it because it is "insensitive" or trying to make it a race thing is fucking absurd