Could someone try to parse why this is funny? I can't find the funny bone this is scratching right now.
The spots on the screen are from radiation hitting the CCD. The rod is radioactive and says “DROP AND RUN”
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Is it because of lead in the cinnamon?!
No, it's not a cinnamon stick. It's a bar of some kind of radioactive material that the photo taker has presumably mistaken for a cinnamon stick, implying they're dumb as hell (that's the joke). Honestly a miracle that they managed to write the question at all given that they seem to be illiterate when it comes to the warning label clearly printed on their "cinnamon" stick.
is this not photoshopped? like look how long all their fingers are? something's up there
it is almost certainly shopped, anything radioactive enough to fuck a modern phone ccd that bad is just actually going to have killed the person in question.
Yes. Again, that's the joke. This isn't real.
Prob just lens distortion
Not high anymore. It finally processed for me that this is not actually a cinnamon stick. I thought it was supposed to be the cinnamon had some foul vibe that was manifesting that warning
Absurdist zoomer memes have ruined us. Now all I want is an actual cinnamon stick deep fried 6 times with Ohio super imposed over it laughing. Same text.
Iirc this specific image is a fake made as a joke but does show what would happen to a CCD in the presence of a radiation source.
I bet it has the texture of hospital air and the taste of my grandmothers spare room closet.
I bet it has the texture of hospital air
Nauseating what great worldbuilding.
Starting at 3540 Curies nearly 60 years ago, this particular sample today probably would throw off about 2 Curies
Oh that explains it. OP's rod is probably genuine, but "dead".
Edit: Or it's AI(?)
yea that's what i was thinking, but also uhhhh this is america woop woop
Jokes aside is this what they use for medical stuff? Don't remember where I heard it but iirc radioactive cobalt is used for radiation oncology or imaging. Something about it having a short half life by design and they have to be replaced often.
Looks like it says "Co-60" (could be 66 but I really doubt it), but nowadays Cobalt-60 isn't really used for diagnostics. Could be an old source; the half-life is around 5 years so rule-of-thumb would be 40 years to be fully depleted. Main use these days is for sterilizing materials I think.
E: wikipedia says medical sources that were used were ~2cm wide so, this looks like an old medical source.
Never found this treat in my Kellog's cereal box tbh.
Can't wait to hear about this in a future 
episode.
It looks like a poop log
Extra spicy cinnamon.