Failed experiment
Accidentally mixed pseudo-napalm: Tiktokerin actually wanted to make slime
It was supposed to be just slime, but the result was downright flammable.
© Screenshot tiktok.com/@theresa360
The attempt backfired: Tiktokerin Theresa Krug actually wanted to mix slime, but accidentally made a dangerous incendiary weapon.
Making slime has been a trend on social media for years. On Tiktok, videos with the hashtag #Slime have garnered over 150 million views, and the international version #Slime has 44 billion views. But not every “recipe” for messy disgusting stuff is harmless.
The Young Tiktok Starlet”Theresa360” wanted to make it easy for herself and present a mixture of just two household ingredients. She shared the result on a video for her 2.2 million subscribers. Although she had succeeded in making a slimy mass, it was an im literally a fire-hazardous mix.
Suddenly napalm in hand
Because she had accidentally made some kind of household remedy napalm, which could have caused serious injuries if it came into contact with fire. Only after countless comments about what she had actually shown there was the video removed from her or Tiktok.
Napalm is a so-called incendiary weapon consisting of gelled petrol. This is intended to ensure that the combustible mass adheres to the target and that a strong fire develops, which in the case of real napalm cannot be extinguished by water. Depending on its composition, napalm reaches a combustion temperature of 800 to 1200 degrees Celsius.
In fact, Theresa could have looked up beforehand what she is presenting to her mostly very young viewers. The combination she mixes is casually referred to on the Internet as “do-it-yourself napalm” and is provided with corresponding warnings in numerous videos and articles.
Dangerous trends spread at breakneck speed
The social video network Tiktok is constantly fighting dangerous content that is spreading at breakneck speed. It was only in November 2021 that the operators promised to curb emerging trends more quickly if it turned out that people could be harmed as a result.
Apparently, the trigger at the time was the so-called “#DeviousLicks” trend, in which young people in North America encouraged each other to steal objects from schools and present their loot on Tiktok. This got so out of hand that some young people were even arrested and Tiktok ultimately had to stop the trend with blocking.