Yes, kids have always done dumb things. But, there were zero kids in my school that ate detergent as a dare. And there weren't 57 genders or people saying that a lady penis was a real thing. We're in unchartered territory. There are levels of stupidity that shouldn't even be possible in the modern age.
Respectfully, I disagree.
For the tide pod thing, only around 100 kids actually did it, so your average kid doesn't have anyone at their school that ate them either. Also, at least when I was in school we had plenty of kids that would eat bugs, dirt, glue, highlighter fluid, etc. for attention, so I can't moralize that today's kids are worse.
As to the second point, while the gender retardation is new, young people fucking up their bodies / getting their bodies fucked up over a dumb trend is nothing new.
From circumcision being popularized in the United States by Kellogg because he thought it would stop kids from masturbating, to students in the 19th and early 20th century getting their faces deliberately cut then rubbing horse hair in the wound so that they could try to look cool with their dueling scars, there has always been dumb shit.
The key difference was that in the past, unless you worked in a school or in a child-based industry, your direct exposure to the stupidity was shielded. Now, it can get blasted instantaneously from their underdeveloped brains directly to your screen.
This isn't to say the stupidity of youth isn't dangerous: I'd argue that the cause of the Japanese involvement in WW2 was caused by dumb Japanese kids. And the outcome of WW2 for Japan was disastrous.
I just feel that saying "The kids of today are so much dumber/worse!" takes away the agency of actually rectifying the problems caused by their stupidity, and instead just verges into nihilism.