The idea of an information hazard overlaps with the idea of a harmful trend or social contagion. In it, knowledge of certain trends can result in their replication, such as in the case of certain viral trends that can be physically dangerous to those who attempt them.

Well it probably starts as some kind of not very funny edgelordy joke that most kids don’t know about, but where gains traction, where this list actually becomes really popular is with adults like Lori who, when she got ahold of it, passed it around to school administrators and other adults and she thinks maybe it got out from there. But she also says she wasn’t the only one, she’d heard of other admins at other schools who had gotten a version of this list.

And then what happens next, this thing springs onto a new level: from principal offices to Facebook. Starting on the morning of September 22nd, you can watch this list ping pong wildly across Facebook in just a 24 hour period.

In the morning, a principal in California posted it to a private principal leadership Facebook group. Then, at 5P.M., it’s on this Facebook page full of cops talking about drugs and alcohol. And then, at 10P.M.,Officer Gomez takes a screenshot of a couple of other Facebook posts as evidence, types out the list and posts it himself. And by that point, it’s just everywhere. It’s on Facebook and Instagram, it spills onto the local news.