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TikTok Travel Myth is Busted: Why Red Suitcases Are Loaded First

a pile of red suitcases

Despite many people wanting to ban the app (or force its sale) in the U.S., TikTok continues to grow. Created in 2016, the app was introduced to the US in 2018.

and a lot of its earliest videos were typically short ones, usually set to music. But fast forward these 6 years, and TikTok, which now has over 2 billion downloads worldwide, is used for infotainment and, according to Pew Research Center late last year, roughly a third of US adults under age 30 (along with 15% of those aged 30 to 49, 7% of those 50 to 64 and 3% of those age 65+) regularly get their news from the app.

Not all good or helpful

Unfortunately, TikTok has its downside, as well. Thanks to “TikTok challenges,” more impressionable viewers have chewed Tide Pods, held their breath until they passed out (a handful of them died), or covered their faces with hot wax strips and yanked them off. Others have cooked chicken in Nyquil, ate enough Benadryl to make themselves hallucinate, or Superglued their hands to their hair. All because they saw it on TikTok.

Misinformation galore

TikTok is also a great way to make crap up and watch it go viral.

The newest myth & responses

A TikTokker who goes by the handle “airportlife_”posted a video on April 18th. It showed a bag handler loading suitcases into the cargo area of the plane, starting with all the red ones, and then followed by other colors…blue, white, black, etc. The video screen asks his followers if they knew “why red bags are loaded first.”

@airportlife_

Boeing 737 loading! 💪🏻✈️ #airport #aviation #aircraft #plane #flight

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That causes thousands upon thousands of people to either reply with “Why are the red bags loaded first?” or people giving “reasons” why it was so:

There were plenty of people who fell for this, hook, line and sinker:

A few people gave what surely had to be BS answers:

And then there were a few people who did try to set everyone straight:

Myth busted: he’s full of crap

Meanwhile, with 71.2 MILLION views (as of this writing), plenty of “official” organizations are saying it’s all hogwash:

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