Earlier this month, there was a bizarre rumor involving the Snickers candy bar and
the rumor went viral.
It had to do with this allegation that the company that owns or
makes the Snickers bars Mars INC had done away with
the penile vein that runs across the candy bar.
Now the twitter user Juniper tweeted a doctored image of
a news headline which read snickers are officially caving and
removing the world renowned devein from the candy bar.
Okay, so she then followed that up with a doctored image here is
the image in question and it's a very smooth chocolate bar,
there are no veins involved whatsoever, and this led to panic.
Okay, because a bunch of right wingers thought that Mars INC actually did this,
they did not in fact do it.
And so why did Juniper put out this disinformation?
The Snickers Devein had been a meme for quite some time before her tweet, but
she was inspired to post the fake headline after watching the right wing media have
a collective freak out over the candy company Mars which also owns snickers,
changing the green M&M's iconic footwear from high heeled boots to sneakers.
Now, even though junipers followers knew that the post was fake,
other twitter users unfortunately took it seriously and after her tweet went viral,
many on twitter actually did end up accusing Mars of submitting to the so
called woke mob because that's what's going on in the country right?
There's a mob of people who are freaking
out over the unsmooth nature of a snickers bar.
Like, but what's amazing Jake is that people do buy it, and and
I think this is actually a cautionary tale in that it's so
easy to put out fake news and have it picked up by other people,
here's an example of one person freaking out.
No, effing way, they write on twitter on twitter and they're sharing a headline,
a literal headline that says sneakers are officially caving and
removing the world renowned, devein from the candy bar.
>> Yeah, so, I mean this story is obviously hilarious, but
let's break it down a little bit more, were saying devein,
because we're not allowed to say that word on there, but they actually said it right,
so I'll call it penis vein because that's allowed.
My favorite part of the story is the right wingers, who were like, my God,
did you hear sneakers taking away the penis vein?
Because the woke mob would don't let them take away the vein of the penis and
the snickers, I want to eat the penis vein thing.
[LAUGH] >> No, no, it's no, they're essentially
saying I can't enjoy the candy bar unless I have that penis vein in my mouth,
that is what they're saying.
>> That's what they are saying.
Look, I mean God, in a sense it is a brilliant piece of trolling,
I mean that could be hung up in a museum, and
then there were republicans were like my God the penis man attack?
[LAUGH] Okay, we've got to get that in our mouth.
Okay, [LAUGH] Why were you upset that they were taking that away.
Why does that like enemy Fox business wrote a story about it?
People got up in arms.
In fact, by the end, Juniper felt bad because it's like,
like once you put it out there, you can't take it back because this,
even if you explain to people, hey, it's like, it's a prank.
Well you're explaining it to a new set of people and some of that might intersect
with the people who heard the story the first time, but a lot of the people
who are the first story the first time never got the correction.
So they're still raging.
Like somewhere in the middle of Nebraska, there's still a guy saying to
his neighbors, did you know, sneakers has taken away the beatings vein,
we've got to stop it because they never found out the truth.
>> It's amazing.
Fox business did a news story about the Snickers penis vein hoax that
included comments from boomers clutching their pearls about woke mobs freaking
out over candy bars and Snickers felt the need to actually clear their name.
Okay, they wanted to defend themselves and through a tweet,
they shared an image of a digitized snickers bar complete with the vein saying
good news contrary to what's trending on twitter, the veins remain.
I think that this might just be a PR stunt by Snickers because like every time I
like think about this story, I want to buy a Snickers.
>> Yeah, I don't, but but
the minute we showed the M&M chocolate chip cookies, I was like, okay.
[LAUGH] But guys, think about how funny this is, that's like it was significant
enough those right there, I'm getting that right after the show.
Anyways, the stickers, the company had to put out a tweet saying,
don't worry, we will keep the penis made in our candy.
I mean, that's just epic.
It's epic.
But there, believe it or not, there is a serious point in here too.
If you read the book, Sapiens, it's a brilliant book, you should read it.
It talks about how the human mind is flexible.
That is, it's more open to suggestion, than your average bear if you will.
Okay.
And in fact, when our mind became more flexible, we became better,
better able to adapt.
But now that's where the book leaves it, I'll pick it up with this.
Our minds became a little too flexible.
So it became a situation where it's relatively easy to trick humans,
Homo sapiens into believing almost anything.
And that's why you're seeing what you're seeing across the world,
we did a story earlier today about Russian propaganda and how the Russian people
believe it, because it's the only media that they're being served and
they're not getting any other thing and they're believing outrageous things.
You see it here in America where people are like, yeah, obviously Tom Hanks and
other celebrities, let alone democrats are drinking kids blood and
doing all these things in a basement of a pizza shop.
I mean in saying things you couldn't possibly believe, but
they do believe it and and the stickers example is a great one,
because if you can get them to believe that what can't you get them to believe?
So the human mind, it's a hell of a thing.
It's it's a thing of beauty, but it also creates nightmares,
just a little too flexible.