MAGA influencer thinks headphones are making men gay
Do headphones really make men gay? [stock image] (Getty Images)
A confused MAGA influencer recently misinterpreted a scientific study so badly that he now believes… that headphones are making people gay.
Ian Miles Cheong took to X on 24 February to share research findings from the Netherlands that examine potentially toxic chemicals found in 81 models of European headphones.
The study, titled ‘The Sound of Contamination: A Comprehensive Analysis of Endocrine Disruptors and Hazardous Additives in the Headphones’, detailed the potential long-term health effects of using the headphones.
“While these products do not pose an acute or ‘imminent’ danger, the cumulative and synergistic effects of chronic exposure to these chemical classes pose a long-term risk to public health,” the study states, with the long-term risks including cancers, reproductive issues and chronic diseases.
Cheong, however, took that to mean that headphones are causing men to become homosexual. “Dutch scientists: Your headphones are making you gay,” he wrote.
He posted that the tests found headphones “to possess endocrine-disrupting chemicals, which mimic hormones, that can cause neurodevelopmental problems and the feminisation of males”. At no point in the study does it conclude this.
At the time of writing, Cheong’s post has 4.6 million views on X. Naturally, social media users have been mocking him in the quotes.
“Just found out I’m gay because of my headphones of seven years from Ian Miles Cheong,” wrote one user.
“Insecure men asking which headphones are okay to use in the comments I am DYING,” said another.
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