Malaysian YouTuber Under Fire After Dumping 1,000 Fever Relief Patches Into Kiddie Pool
He played inside the pool along with several friends and they proceeded to throw the fever relief patches around and even put them in their mouths.
By Arisha Rozaidee — 25 Jan 2021, 06:54 PM
TikTok recently saw the rise of a new trend dubbed the 'babi air' challenge where people would submerge fever relief patches into water, making it grow in size
Once a patch is left in water after several hours, it will curl inside out and the gel will then expand.
A quick search of the keywords 'babi air', which is Bahasa Malaysia for 'water pigs', will result in thousands of videos on TikTok where people would treat the submerged fever relief pads as pets.
One local online personality recently found himself in hot water after uploading and promoting a video of him dumping 1,000 KOOLFEVER patches into a kiddie pool
The video was uploaded on Saturday, 23 January, and it has since garnered over 295,232 views.
It showed footage of the YouTuber purchasing boxes of KOOLFEVER then placing it in a kiddie pool filled with water.
He then played inside the pool along with several friends and they proceeded to throw the fever relief patches around and even put them in their mouths.
A particular Twitter user's tweet regarding the video caught the attention of many others.
He wrote, "This guy just bought 1K KOOLFEVER just to make babi air. 1K?"
Several netizens criticised the YouTuber for wasting KOOLFEVERs and one person cited a recent incident where a woman had to steal a fever relief patch for her sick son
A user wrote, "I just want to inform that a mother had to steal a KOOLFEVER because her son had a fever. She was desperate and in need. But this? What kind of wasteful trend is this? Haih I don't know why babi air is trending."
Another person wrote, "Serious talk. Yesterday I went out looking for KOOLFEVER because my sibling had a fever. I looked everywhere. When I say I hate rich people, I mean rich people who are stupid like this. So-called "influencer". Can you stop this stupid trend? It's troubling others."
"That 1,000 babi air challenge is just stupid. Imagine producing that much unnecessary waste that probably contributes to pollution. Malaysians, please refrain from watching his video or interacting with his page. Normalise ignoring and not giving a platform [to] these kind of people."
The YouTuber has since issued a public apology
In a video posted on his Instagram, he said, "I would like to talk about what happened on Saturday regarding my YouTube video with 1,000 babi air. So here I would like to apologise. I shouldn't have made content like that. And after this, I hope that before I make any content, I will think and make sure whether I should make content like that or not. So I apologise. I'm only human and I hope you will forgive me and I will be more careful."
