[Tagbert]

I see this happen a lot on Tiktok and Facebook where influencers post about using different plants for food or for skincare. They often either show photos that are of a different plant that is dangerous to eat or they haven’t actually tried this and promoting the consumption of a plant that can poison people. It’s the Wild West out there on social networks.

[joe_the_user]

This feels just because while people who know just bit about plants might do some dumb things, mushrooms are a thing that anyone who knows a bit about plants knows not to screw with because it's easy to poison oneself and the results are horrible.

My father was a moderately known evolutionary biologist and he advised his students encountering an unknown plant and curious whether it was edible to "try it and see". But this was for a flowering plant. Most mushrooms can't be dealt with that way.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

Obligatory PA Comic: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2024/05/27/a-very-particu...

[Freak_NL]

Ouch. That web comic did not age gracefully.

[throwanem]

'Age?' It's three months old.

[alwa]

I read the parent comment to contrast the 3-month-old vintage of Penny Arcade with its first couple of decades:

https://www.penny-arcade.com/archive/

[throwanem]

Oh. Sure, I guess that's a take. Expecting the artist and writer to have learned nothing of their craft in the 26 years they've spent pursuing it as a profession seems extremely silly to me, but if someone finds that a sensible way to look at the work, I don't see what it would benefit anyone for me to try to gainsay them.

[JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B]

I guess OP is talking about the visual style of this comic which started in 1998. It’s very ugly nowadays.