Guy eats vinyl record after incorrectly predicting second Kendrick album

2017 has been a good year for people sticking to the courage of their stupidest convictions. Even if we ignore politics, there’s still the guy who continues to daily endanger his health by eating a picture of Jason Segel, and claiming he’ll continue to do so until Jason Segel eats a picture of him. But paper, at least, is vaguely edible. Vinyl—specifically polyvinyl chloride, or PVC—absolutely is not, which is just part of what makes one redditor’s decision to eat a vinyl record after losing a Kendrick Lamar-based bet such a hideously bad idea.
User “Cousin Tyrone” made his wager based on an elaborate conspiracy theory that claimed Lamar was about to follow his new album, Damn.—released on Good Friday—with a second one on Easter. (You can read about the whole convoluted thought process, involving devil horns, religious symbolism, and a bunch of Matrix allusions—right here.) “Cousin Tyrone” was so convinced by the assertions, that he stated he‘d eat a record of Lamar’s Good Kid, M.A.A.D City if the prophecized music didn’t arrive. It didn’t. He did.