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The phenomenon of ‘maxing’ has peaked with Alin Lin who created a formula for ‘fart maxing’ and after it went viral he used himself as a guinea pig to test it out. ‘Maxing’ is the practice of optimizing some aspect or characteristic of something to achieve to maximum success (or attention).
In this instance, ‘fart maxing’ is the pursuit of creating the loudest, proudest, most foul-smelling and noxious farts imaginable. Alan put together a formula to achieve his ‘fart maxing’ goal that breaks down as ‘Fiber + Gut Fermentation > Digestion Speed.’
His initial video here on TikTok blew up and racked up 1.7 million views:
In order to ‘fart max,’ Alan said he would need “to deliver explosive doses of rapidly ferment-able fiber into the gut and pair it with carbonated fluid to speed transit of gas.” It’s just science, right?
He then takes things a bit further and creates a sample meal for fart maxing which includes: 1 liquid salad pouch, 3 hard boiled eggs, 1 bottle Topo Chico, 1 cup cooked black beans, 3 raw garlic cloves, and 1 green banana.
Does Fart Maxing Work?
After his initial video exploded in popularity, it was only a matter of time before he had to put this all to the test. The people needed to know if his fart maxing equation was legit and if it was only theoretical or if it would actually work in practice.
So, he did the only sensible thing and enlisted the help of his mother to smell his farts. He used a sound meter app to measure the loudness of his farts. Tracked the frequency per hour. And had his dear mother rate the smell. Afterward, he tallied a final score. Here is his official field test:
Throughout all of this, mom deserves the MVP award. Imagine going to your mom and telling her that you need her to film you eating a heinous concoction of foods because your ‘fart maxing’ formula has to be proven valid and then you need mom to sniff your farts.
His final calculations were 26 farts per hour for a Fart Frequency score of 10, a ‘maximum acoustic blast’ (loudest fart) of 93 decibels which is as loud as a subway train for 10 points on the sound scale, and a ‘social fallout’ score of 5 from his mom who says “it’s pretty loud but it’s not something I haven’t smelled before.”
Mom, telling it like it is.
For the final score they get 10 + 10 + 5 = 25…multiplied by 3.33 for an 83.25 Fart Factor Index (FFI). Ultimately, he came to realize that his farts need to be maxed even further and he posited that next time he will include dairy in order to increase the sulfur of his farts and jack up the Social Fallout Score.
Stay tuned for his next Fart Maxing video where he will add more dairy to make his farts smell even worse.
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