In a new social media trend, people are sitting backwards on the toilet so they can eat and watch Netflix while relieving themselves. Viral videos on TikTok are showing people sitting backwards and facing the flush after the influencer @AmyWoahh told her 11.6m followers she did it. “You have been pooping wrong,” she says. “What I want you to do is poop backwards. Get your favourite snacks, get your favourite show and that’s how you poop. It’s the best of all times.”
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UFO spotted above Arizona
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