People online are just straight-up eating ice for your entertainment. Are
you entertained yet? Do you feel entertained? Are you a freak for ice? Cool.
Welcome back to What's Trending, I'm Candice Carrizales. You can subscribe for
more social media news every day. My mom always told me... I'm choking.
Let me try that again. My mom always said, "Candace, don't chew ice. It's bad for you."
But she never went into detail about that. Did I chew the ice anyway? Yes.
You better believe it. Do I chew ice anymore? Not really. Maybe a little at the
end of the drink. But back to the point. Are people on the Internet chewing ice
for views and money probably? Yes they are.
The latest social media trend in
China is ice eating. Regular ice, colored ice, ice shaped like stuff. You name it!
The trend started on the Chinese video sharing app, Kwai. They're shared with the
hashtag chi-bing, which means "eat ice." I love a simple hashtag. "Eat ice." My hashtag
is, "follow me on Twitter @candacesucks." But eating ice often is not something
you should do all the time. No. Don't do it. Evidently, chewing ice makes it really
easy for you to crack your teeth and ruin your gums. It can also be a sign of
a more serious health issue. If you're addicted to chewing ice it might be a
sign of an iron deficiency. Cosmo featured an essay from a woman in 2014
who had Pagophagia, an addiction to eating and chewing on
ice. She wrote: "At the height of my addiction, I was buying large bags of ice
at the store. Eventually I bought an ice- making machine, which I kept running all
day." Not to make light of a serious health issue, but if you Google...
"Pagophagia," if you Google that, a lot of stock photos come up that make eating ice
seem almost sensual.
But even if you're not an ice head, not addicted to chewing ice, even a chew of
the ice occasionally is just probably not that good for you. I mean, look at
this clip. How is that not bad for your teeth? That ice is like three inches
thick. It's like she's biting into glass. It looks like she's biting into a
paperweight. That thing looks like a paperweight. What is she doing? Sorry was
that too dark? I'll get back to the light stuff. I'm sure that woman's teeth are
fine and she's fine and she's healthy and doing well and does not have any
teeth problems yet. The Instagrammers aren't just chewing regular old ice from
your freezer, they eat these specialty ice balls filled with liquid, or frozen
chocolate, or juice. Some people are calling this the Ice Eating Challenge.
But is it really a challenge? Or is it just people doing something? Also, they're
eating the ice so fast. They're just like shoving one in after another, which
eating that much ice that quickly hurts like... it numbs your tongue, then you're
like ow, and it kind of hurts a little bit, and then your tongue might fall off
from freezer burn, so maybe it is a challenge? Or maybe it's just supposed to
be aesthetically pleasing to watch? And the sound... yummy ASMR.
Honestly, the sound
to me is kind of whatever, but hey. These videos are probably good to watch if you
have an ice addiction. You can just cut it off cold turkey and just
like really just watch videos of it. But let me tell you something a little crazy,
there might be some people that think some people aren't eating enough ice.
Candace, what? You said it's bad. You said it's unhealthy. You said it's gonna break
your tongue off. Well, just wait and listen to this. This is the theory of Dr.
Brian Weiner whose free e-book, "The ice Diet," suggests you should eat a liter of
ice every day. It can apparently burn up to
160 calories a day and keep you hydrated. Though might I suggest, taking a walk
around the block, drinking a bottle of water. This brings up the obvious, very
important question - are cracked teeth worth the hot bod?
So, are you gonna go buy yourself ice trays and let your teeth fall out? What's
the deal? What's the plan? What do you think about this trend? Are you watching
these videos? Let me know in the comments down below. I've been Candace Carrizales. You
can check me out on my YouTube channel, Hunan Penguin, and on my Twitter, @candacesucks.
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