And you thought Tide Pod Challenge was the dumbest thing people would be doing social media? Think again – apparently guys have been taking to TikTok to dip their testicles in soy sauce after one user claimed that men could “taste” things with their balls. No. Joke.

lt started innocently enough. Late last week, TikTok user cryinginthecar logged onto the popular video app and shared an eyebrow-raising scientific finding with her followers.

“Did y’all know that if a dude puts his balls in something, he can taste it? He can taste it!” she asked, showing a screenshot of a 2013 Daily Mail article that seemingly proved as much.

“If you have testicles please dip your balls in something, it’s for science and I must know,” said cryinginthecar, whose name is actually Regan.

And instead of telling Ms. cryinginthecar to GTFO, guys started freakin’ DOING IT.

@alxjamesoh.. my god….. ??

? original sound – alxjames

Alx James ? who has more than 1 million followers on the app ? was one of the first people to claim they’d given their testicles the soy sauce treatment. Appearing to do a quick dab while parked in his car, James claimed that he had indeed tasted something.

“Stop. Hold on now, oh my God, I can taste the salt!” James shouted. “That’s ridiculous.”

The actual study, which was published in the journal Molecular Human Reproduction in 2013, found that male testes do indeed have taste receptors. These receptors canalso be found in the “digestive system, respiratory system, brain and spermatozoa.”

But taste receptors aren’t the same thing as taste buds. In other words, your testicles can’t taste a damn thing, said Emma Beckett, a food and nutrition scientist who works at the University of Newcastle in Australia.

SO, guys. Please, stop dipping your junk in the Kikkoman. No woman wants to go down on a guy to the smell of sushi, k?