There’s a great adage that goes “Don’t believe everything you see on the internet” but it seems we have long ignored that in favor of seeing just how much people will believe. A recent post talking about "aspirinmaxxing" has gone viral and here's the low down on the over-the-counter pill-popping “trend.”


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A few months ago @cynomaxxx tweeted how aspirin could stop “melanin production” in the eye and make eye color shift bluer.



“If you're Faustian enough, A10 'conquerors' can be yours,” reads the tweet along with a photo chart of blue eye colors.


Well, dedicated shitposter @footslurper1488 saw the post and decided to play along, replying with a photo of his fistful of aspirin decrying “Just hold on Hitler I’m coming.”



Then, two months later, @footslurper decided to show his “progress” from mousy brown eyes to clear water blue after “ingesting” 5 grams of aspirin a day. If you look at the photo for more than 5 seconds, you can tell that it's edited but it doesn’t take away from just how outrageous it looks to see a mountain of loose aspirin all over this man's side table.



Now, can taking 5 grams of aspirin a day really change your eye color? Of course not. It is very dangerous. X’s community notes went berserk over the aspirinmaxxing posts, writing how aspirin poisoning will cause symptoms of “seizures, coma, and respiratory arrest.” 



But if you want a more simple explanation as to what will happen if you aspirinmaxx, @drecourtsilver put it succinctly, “One papercut and that man is dead.”


Though, if @footslurper1488 and others commit to the bit long enough maybe, just maybe a white supremacist might try this.