Radio stars Amanda Keller and Brendan ‘Jonesy’ Jones have called out a Gen Z anti-ageing trend live on air.
Speaking on their popular WSFM 101.7 breakfast show Jonesy and Amanda, the pair addressed a controversial new drinking straw.
The straw bends toward the end and has a hole in the top so users can suck without pursing their lips and causing wrinkles.
‘This sideways straw, it makes it look like you’re on an incubator. It looks like you’re sucking oxygen,’ said Keller, while co-host Jonesy agreed, saying ‘it looks ridiculous.’
‘It looks like an attachment that should be in a fish tank,’ Amanda joked, as clips from TikTok videos featuring the bizarre invention played.
Radio stars Amanda Keller (pictured) and Brendan ‘Jonesy’ Jones have called out a Gen Z anti-ageing trend live on air
She added: ‘This is a bit ridiculous because over a lifetime, talking, laughing, expressing yourself, that’s what’s going to give you wrinkles as well. So maybe you should be giving up laughing?’
Followers had a field day in the comments, making fun of the new trend.
‘Have they tried drinking without a straw?’ wrote one Instagram user, while another echoed this sentiment: ‘Can they not drink from a cup!? Poor things!’
The popular new product is a straw that bends toward the end with a hole in the top, so users can suck without pursing their lips
‘Good grief, talk about first world problems,’ wrote another, while many comments simply read ‘ridiculous.’
‘OMG…Have you ever seen an object so based on self-centeredness,’ wrote one more social media user.
One person thought that the new straw design would be troublesome when it came time to wash it.
‘It looks like an attachment that should be in a fish tank,’ Amanda joked. Pictured with co-host Brendan Jones
‘Have they tried cleaning them yet?’ they wrote, followed by a dizzy face emoji.
Other users suspected the trend was more to do with cosmetic enhancements rather than fear of wrinkles.
‘I think it was invented so that those who have over inflated their lips can use a straw. You can’t really make a good pucker to suck on a straw if your lips are over inflated,’ one commenter suggested.
Another agreed: ‘Maybe it’s for all the botox and filler people. As seriously how else can they eat and drink with those lips. Thinking the only thing these lips are good for is to keep them afloat.’
