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Tragedy strikes son. He ends up with his entire family in the community…See more

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TAKE THAT, BEARDED ONE! Stop everything! Nobody died… yet (thank goodness, since your body is sending you smoke signals from the bathroom), what died was the little peace we had left when we went to pee! They captured the Treacherous Healthy Gastronomy Boss that the prophecy spoke of!

CHRONICLE OF A HELL FORETOLD: FROM GOSSIP TO GASTRONOMIC TANTRUM AND PANIC IN THE TOILET
Look, guys, don’t get me wrong. It’s good that there wasn’t a human tragedy to mourn immediately. It’s good that your relatives aren’t kicking the bucket because of a simple craving for grandma’s remedy. But, COME ON! Was it really necessary to make us jump out of our seats with that headline, worthy of a state funeral or a binational massacre? To play with Baba Vanga’s hidden prophecy or Ricky Martin memes like that to mislead us with health gossip?

There we all were, imagining sirens, ambulances, families weeping, hearses on Reforma Avenue adorned with white carnations, and the National Guard cordoning off your bathroom like a culinary sin zone… and it turns out the drama was just a high-impact tantrum from the feudal lords of the healthy taco alternative identity. It’s a geopolitical tragedy of ridicule, not a massacre… this time !

This, my dear compatriots, is the dark art of modern social media journalism: “digital sensationalism” taken to its most cynical and effective extreme. They play on our deepest feelings, on our primal fears that society is going to hell while we’re enjoying two-for-one suadero tacos and thinking we’ve seen it all. They know that tragedy sells in Mexico, and they exploit that morbid fascination to earn a lousy click, even if it comes at the cost of our blood pressure, our peace of mind, and our gastritis. They’re geniuses of evil and sons of bitches, I swear!Family

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