China youth fry flour with firecrackers to create mushroom clouds for videos but sparking warnings


By Fran Lu

Firefighters in China have issued a stark warning regarding the alarming trend of setting off firecrackers around plain flour, a practice that has rapidly gained popularity on the social media platform RedNote.

This activity has been trending for several months, with many young individuals posting videos of themselves posing coolly amid the clouds of flour created by igniting paper or firecrackers.

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