Radioactive Walmart Shrimp Explained

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The FDA warned Americans not to eat certain frozen shrimp from Walmart after they tested positive for radioactive material Cesium-137. Within hours, the internet turned this food safety crisis into thousands of memes about glowing toilets, superhero powers, and Godzilla vs. Radioactive Shrimp battles.   Check out our new MEME STORE: https://thememestore.com/  Subscribe to our channel to learn more about trending memes, hear interviews from meme personalities and more! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbrPqq29C9Q_TQP7OFFRzcw?sub_confirmation=1  #meme #memes #memesvideos

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00:00The FDA just told America to avoid eating something that glows in the dark,

00:07and it's sitting in freezers across the country right now.

00:09On August 19, 2025, the FDA issued an emergency warning

00:12about great-value frozen shrimp sold at Walmart.

00:15The problem? Cesium-137 contamination,

00:17actual radioactive material that could harm anyone who eats it.

00:20How does shrimp become radioactive?

00:22According to the FDA report, certain bags of frozen shrimp

00:24from Indonesian supplier PT Bahari Mukmur Sejati

00:27potentially came into contact with cesium-137.

00:30U.S. Customs and Border Protection Testing revealed that some bags

00:33actually tested positive for radioactivity.

00:35The exact details of how this happened remain unclear.

00:38But on August 22, the FDA posted an update revealing even more frozen shrimp

00:41from the same Indonesian supplier had tested positive for radiation.

00:45Within hours, the internet did what it does best,

00:47turned a food safety crisis into comedy gold.

00:49The first viral reaction came from ex-user at Reddit Lies on August 19,

00:53who quoted the FDA warning with a Big Brother Orders meme,

00:55joking that you shouldn't listen to the FDA warning.

00:58That post got over 2,200 likes in six days.

01:01But the real creativity came when people started imagining

01:04what eating radioactive shrimp might actually do to you.

01:07Facebook page Domestically Dysfunctional posted a Photoshop edit

01:10of a toilet, glowing green, with the caption,

01:12Do not eat the shrimp from Walmart,

01:14getting over 10,000 reactions and 3,500 shares in five days.

01:18People started joking about gaining superpowers

01:19from the radioactive seafood.

01:21Ex-user at Real Kate Melvin posted a glowing man meme saying,

01:24Me after eating a whole bag of them Walmart radioactive shrimp,

01:27which got over 2,000 likes in three days.

01:28Other memes played with the superhero angle,

01:30including a Spider-Man parody that read,

01:32I'm not throwing away the shrimp I bought from Walmart.

01:34The shrimp is radioactive Pete.

01:36Who wouldn't want shrimp superpowers?

01:38TikTok creators took the meme to another level entirely.

01:40TikToker at Omni.man84 created an edit of flashing shrimp images

01:44set to Imagine Dragons' song, Radioactive,

01:47which garnered over 4 million views, 0.8 million views in just three days.

01:54Another creator, atjoe.fit,

01:56made an AI music parody of Video Killed the Radio Star,

01:58with lyrics about the radioactive Walmart shrimp

02:00getting 2.6 million views in a single day.

02:03Radioactive shrimp from Walmart.

02:06The memes reached peak internet absurdity

02:08with Godzilla vs. Radioactive Walmart shrimp artwork

02:10and Apocalypse bingo cards featuring radioactive shrimp

02:13as an August 2025 disaster.

02:15The Instagram page, Entomimeology,

02:17compiled the best radioactive shrimp memes,

02:19getting over 8,000 likes in four days.

02:21Even Reddit got in on the action with Peter Griffin,

02:23I told you memes about eating radioactive shrimp

02:25to become shrimp man.

02:26But this isn't shrimp's first time going viral.

02:28The internet has always had a weird obsession with shrimp memes.

02:31There's the classic,

02:32you're telling me a shrimp fried this rice?

02:33joke that's been circulating since 2013,

02:35where people pretend to be confused

02:37about how shrimp fried rice works.

02:38Then there's, shrimps is bugs,

02:40the viral 2023 tattoo that became so beloved

02:42that thousands of people discouraged the owner

02:44from covering it up.

02:45And who could forget

02:46dope flaming shrimp dunking over some sharks,

02:48the AI-generated masterpiece

02:49that TikTokers called an image that goes hard.

02:51So when radioactive shrimp hit the news,

02:53the internet already had years

02:54of shrimp meme experience to draw.

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