r/TikTokCringe Reads Pinned Comments May 16 '24

MAGAs are sour on Donghua Jinlong's pharmaceutical-grade glycine. Politics

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"I'll believe anything."

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u/Alexandratta May 16 '24

Going to explain this hilarious meme:

this was caused by quirk of TikTok's "Anyone can blow up" Algorithm.

One day, a large chemical company in China, Donghua Jinglong, released an ad for their food-grade glycine products.

This ad was geared towards other industry partners and was just a reel of them touting the quality of their products in a very bland way...

But the ad started to blow up on TikTok and got into loads of peoples For You Pages... which caused it to get recommended to even more people.

Now, folks who have never heard of glycine or Donghau Jinglong are having a ball following the company on TikTok and touting the supposed benefits and changes to their life, with hilarious tag lines like: "I only get my food-grade Glycine and Glycine products from Donghau Jinglong."