Its fascinating to see that a chinese state controlled app has the power to potentially destabilize small economies. Also fuck influencers, they are a plague on this world.
Three influencers downvoted you.
And you.
You’re making it sound like it’s a bad thing people are being influenced to eat healthier. Not to mention, the title is kinda clickbait.
SFG’s marketing director said that as things stand farmers in Iceland are not managing to keep up with surging consumer demand, but said she hopes supply will be back to normal “in a week or so”.
Wow, sounds serious.
Ms Sveinsdóttir from the SFG also expressed some scepticism, suggesting other factors were at play. Some cucumber farmers replace their cucumber plants at this time of year, which are not yet producing large amounts, she said.
In addition to this, schools are returning from the summer holidays, which puts additional pressure on supplies.
“Everything is happening at the same time,” Ms Sveinsdóttir observed, but said the social media trend remained one of the main contributing factors.
“This is the first time we have experienced something like this,” Ms Sveinsdóttir said, adding that had the TikTok trend become popular earlier in the summer, “when the [cucumber] production was in full blast” and the shortage would not have been noticeable.
Wow, the Chinese propaganda is so sophisticated! They must have known about all these factors in advance to be able to minorly inconvenience people who want a salad for a whole week. 🙄
those fucking chinese-affiliated influencers and they’re ability to make people eat cucumbers! what’s next, destroying society by tricking the youth into having a little cream cheese on their toast?
Damn CCCP, how dare they make our people eat healthier!!!1!!
Man, BBC really scraping the bottom of the barrel for content here 😄
I heard a piece about it on NPR as well.
Probably from the BBC.
this is less of a too little cucumber and more of a too much tiktok problem
Seems not so much a “tik-tok problem” but example of a 21st century fad.
Fads, crazes, etc. have come and gone. Something able become a nationwide fad overnight is a product of the internet.
White, 29-year-old, recent divorcees are in shambles.
The article seems to be saying that despite some blaming TikTok, local experts are saying it’s not all because of TikTok.
As someone who doesn’t use TikTok and was under the impression that it was a young person’s game, I did not expect the “trend” involving a notoriously phallic vegetable to be a recipe.
