Here's How Not to Achieve the Perfect Aluminum Foil Ball

Updated Oct. 3 2018, 4:24 p.m. ET In today's day and age, misinformation spreads faster than wildfire. Remember the Tide pod days and how the company literally had to urge its customers not to stick the cleaning detergent in their mouths? No matter how tasty (what?) they might appear.

The Shiny Aluminum Ball Fad Is Being Taken Advantage Of By Pranksters

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Updated Oct. 3 2018, 4:24 p.m. ET

Source: Twitter

In today's day and age, misinformation spreads faster than wildfire. Remember the Tide pod days and how the company literally had to urge its customers not to stick the cleaning detergent in their mouths? No matter how tasty (what?) they might appear.

So it comes as a surprise to no one that people are once again being careless and crazy on the internet. This time it doesn't have to do with detergent, though. 

If you haven't seen it, there is currently a trend circulating in which people take an enormous amount of aluminum foil, form it into a ball, and slowly, methodically pound it down and sand it until it is a perfect shiny sphere:

以前ツイッターで見かけたアルミホイル16m
叩いて…面白そうだったのでやってみた。
当初は叩くだけのはずが、磨くことになるとは pic.twitter.com/zJsVJh6cQ7

— アス (@Asu_Astell) March 16, 2018

It's an intensely laborious, painstaking process that takes a lot of time, and presumably can only be completed by someone who has nothing better to do with their lives than work hard to achieve something that looks like a silver ball. To play bocci ball, maybe?

アルミホイル（16m）を丸めて叩いて、球にしました。 pic.twitter.com/XA9nbWsacH

— アトリエpuchuco (@puchuco709) March 1, 2018

But where there is a trend, there is someone looking to spread mischief. In fact, a couple people are trying to spread the rumor that you can have a perfect, shiny foil ball without all the work and patience.

It's really insanely simple. So simple it's almost crazy it hasn't become a meme decades ago. People wanted to troll the poor folk who didn't have time to patiently sand their aluminum foil balls into just throwing their useless prop into the microwave.

Yall know this happened if you microwave foil for 3 minutes? pic.twitter.com/k4y51FyUN3

— Wilson♿️ (@Badoodled) April 2, 2018

I just tried this. If you put a tight ball of tin foil in the microwave for a few minutes it turns into a real ball. Can’t believe it actually worked pic.twitter.com/h32voZnya2

— KODY (@KodyJohnJohn) April 2, 2018

Works but you have to leave it in for at least 10 minutes pic.twitter.com/IzaL5BC4Eu

— Dom (@domaloevera) April 2, 2018

Y’all this really work pic.twitter.com/KtCy2DcOaY

— 3than? (@3thanirsik) April 2, 2018

It should come as a surprise to no one that people are trying to troll others into performing dangerous activities at home. I mean, have you heard of the internet? Have you seen any of the dangerous viral challenges that have landed people in the hospital?

But because the internet is what it is, it's also not too shocking that people are trying the advice they were given, and actually sticking their balls of aluminum foil in their microwaves. Which, I'm not sure if anyone let you know when you were, say, five years old, is a very very terrible, no good idea.

Wow! I just burnt my microwave because of this😡😡😠😠 pic.twitter.com/blwEa2qrj9

— Tsonga King Wandile (@1ndi3_) April 2, 2018

Bitch ass nigga. pic.twitter.com/X7vFe1VcZR

— Don’t trust the internet (@DJWallieMayne) April 2, 2018

is that normal, should i wait more? pic.twitter.com/sWwMRVkQvy

— şehzade I.selin (@sehzadeselin) April 2, 2018

Wtfffffff pic.twitter.com/RpRCuBjQI1

— Lance cinderblocks for feet thomas (@WoodinNYK) April 2, 2018

Wtf pic.twitter.com/JVX0ijnqVj

— Obey Melt (@Obey_Melt) April 3, 2018

Of course, people are probably joking and just Googled "broken microwave pics."

YO WTF pic.twitter.com/GYpPlYbgFA

— chai (@_chaai) April 2, 2018

But it still seems important to warn people: DO NOT PUT FOIL IN THE MICROWAVE.

We can't believe we have to say this, but please don't put foil in the microwave! At best you can break your microwave and at worst, it could spark a fire! https://t.co/1sBeCVENhe

— Elec Safety First (@ElecSafetyFirst) April 3, 2018

Guys.
The guy who made that foil ball hammered, sanded, and then polished it over the course of 3 days. He started off with 52 square feet of foil and crushed it into that ball on the left.
Don't microwave it. https://t.co/C3kQZL0BNV

— 豆腐 (@ThatFemaleGamer) April 3, 2018

same ppl who ate the tide pods are trying this tonight https://t.co/1qpGwXMlCM

— Alex Papiccio (@alexpapiccio) April 3, 2018

DISCLAIMER: YOU CAN NOT MICROWAVE FOIL.... 2018 and i feel the need to make that known, god help us.

— Alex Papiccio (@alexpapiccio) April 3, 2018

If you put foil in the microwave because Twitter said so, you are a certified dumbass https://t.co/bKDfRESxqB

— Baby Girl 💕👑 (@MoMoolahh) April 3, 2018

You be joking like this and there gon’ be idiots actually trying to microwave foil my dude https://t.co/j16gazWAVL

— Ken Adams (@princehasanii) April 3, 2018

This is not done by microwaving foil, it is done by sanding and polishing aluminum foil. Get your facts right. If you're gonna put that in your microwave, you're gonna cause sparks and start a god damn fire.🤦🏾‍♀️ https://t.co/MtRTjFNdy6

— Akihtsas🌹⚜️ (@Sasthikapreeya) April 3, 2018

Don't do it. No matter how much you want something shiny.

Really though, DON'T DO IT. 

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