Dangers of Social Media - Where The Buffalo Roam
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Dangers of Social Media
So as it turns out, a bunch of kids were doing TikTok challenges that were landing them in the emergency room. But how do you get kids to watch PSAs about safety? Our solution: make a bunch of gross-out cartoons featuring vomit-soaked lungs and eyeballs covered in pus. Who are somehow still kind of cute and lovable.
In which two damaged lungs have second thoughts about getting blackout drunk and drowning in their own vomit.
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Cloud of Poison Gas
In which two sickly eyeballs look back with regret creating a deadly cloud of deadly posion gas by mixing household chemicals.
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Medication
In which a heart and a brain discuss the idea that maybe overdose, cardiac arrest, and coma aren't actually all that fun after all.
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Case Study
In which we explain the strategy behind using gross-out cartoons to keep kids from hurting themselves by doing dumb stuff they saw on the internet.
EP — PJ Koll
Director — Brian L. Perkins
HOP — Amy Russo
Producer — Mike Schultz
AD/Illustrator — Jason Warne
Editor — Jonathan Flookes
Assistant Editor — Tricia Heath
2D Animation — Jake Pryor
Audio Mix — Handsome Sound, Christopher Forrest