We all have some bad ideas from time to time, but we can sometimes find that the low quality of an idea doesn't always stop others from being inspired by it.
And it's hard to find a better explanation than this for why so many ill-advised trends seem to spread through TikTok with worrying speed and regularity.
And while some of the health and beauty hacks that can emerge from that platform simply don't work, others take their uselessness a step further by endangering the health of people who try them.
That's why medical professionals on TikTok are so quick to shut them down and they've been warning against one particularly inconvenient "hack" just in time for Halloween.