Time to drop the five-second rule—it could be making you sick. A microbiologist managed to gross out TikTok with the foul findings of a recent test conducted at his local movie theater!
Tim Call is known on the popular social media app for his frequent tests of everyday items and spaces for bacteria, often hitting the headlines and, of course, grossing out his followers with the truth of how filthy household and other shared surfaces can be.
This time, the man sought the answer to the question: does the five-second rule apply to movie theater floors?
To conduct his gory research, The TikToker picked up a bag of fresh popcorn from the concession stand before heading into the theater, where he scooped a handful of kernels off the floor!
Tim then put both specimens to the test, treating them both with a solution of some kind and pouring the liquid into a petri dish and then an incubator.
Using timelapse video, the tik toker compares the behavior of the two specimens. While it’s all quiet on the fresh popcorn, the stash rescued from the floor now has a forest of fungi and bacterial colonies growing rapidly on it!
Call says he enjoys posting to TikTok to help educate the public as to how dirty surfaces can be. To watch some of his videos debunking germs around us click here!