An Oklahoma City family is warning parents after they say a viral social media trend led to serious injuries for their 11-year-old son.

Koltyn Preston says he saw videos online showing people microwaving NeeDoh stress toys to make them softer. He says he tried it himself and within seconds, it went wrong.

“I put it in the microwave,” said Koltyn. “It wouldn’t come off and it was burning.”

The hot gel inside the toy splattered across his face and neck.

His mother, Kami Gill, was in another room when she suddenly heard him scream.

“I’m sitting on my bed taking a bite of my sandwich and I hear this scream,” said Gill. “I’m like, what in the world could have happened?”

She says she rushed to help him and quickly realized the severity of the injury.

“It was terrifying and terrible,” said Gill.

Koltyn was taken to the hospital, where he stayed overnight. Gill says he has since undergone multiple wound care appointments and is still recovering weeks later.

“If it would have got in his eyes, he’d be blind,” she said. “He’s been under anesthesia twice to scrub the wounds.”

Gill also says that when she later looked at the packaging, she noticed a warning label that was difficult to see.

“There’s a giant barcode over the warning label,” she said. “If you’re not looking for it, you don’t see it.”

Doctors say they’ve received questions about similar online trends involving the toys and warn that they should never be heated.

“The material inside heats up very fast and it can blow up,” said Dr. Ryan Brown at OU Children’s. “It can explode in the microwave or once you get it out it can burn your hands or explode into your face.”

Gill is sharing her family’s experience in hopes that other parents will talk with their children about what they see online before trying viral trends themselves.

The manufacturer, Schylling, says microwaving, heating or freezing NeeDoh products is dangerous and can cause injury.

The company says it has worked with TikTok to remove videos showing misuse and has added safety warnings to packaging and online listings.

Week 10 of the 2026 college football campaign sees the Texas A&M Aggies in the second game of a three-week road trip across the Southeast, this time heading to Columbia, South Carolina for a match with Shane Beamer and the Gamecocks.

The last time the two teams met, it was a clash between an undefeated Aggies team and a Gamecocks squad that had absolutely nothing to lose, and resulted in high-running emotions, questions as to whether or not Marcel Reed deserved his Heisman Trophy hype, and even an odd interaction between a South Carolina player and a state trooper that was working the sidelines of the game.

Oh, and also the greatest football comeback in Texas A&M program history.

The Great Comeback at Kyle Field

The Aggies already had revenge fresh on their minds from the 2024 meeting between the two teams, which saw the Gamecocks hand the Ags an embarrassing 44-20 loss to halt their seven-game winning streak and serve as the catalyst for a downward spiral for A&M that resulted in them losing two of their next three games, including a four-overtime thriller against Auburn and a heartbreaking finale loss at home against the Texas Longhorns.

And the first half of the 2025 game looked like a rinse and repeat of that fateful November night in Columbia, except this time, it was in front of a jam-packed Kyle Field crowd.

South Carolina wasted no time pouring it on the Aggies, as a 17-3 first quarter score had Shane Beamer beaming with delight during an interview shortly before the second quarter.

Two field goals and an 80-yard touchdown pass from quarterback LaNorris Sellers to Nyck Harbor, and the confidence of the 12th Man in the team was crumbling, and an undefeated Aggie team was suddenly on the ropes against one of the more underperforming teams in the conference.

Unfortunately for Beamer and the Gamecocks, football has two halves in it, and very few teams perform better in the second half of a contest than the Texas A&M Aggies.

Marcel Reed wasted no time to start the second quarter, only needing three-and-a-half minutes to find Izaiah Williams down the sideline for a 27-yard touchdown, slowly bringing life back into the largest football stadium in the state, life that was temporarily zapped when Ashton Bethel-Roman dropped a walk-in touchdown pass, but was restored as ABR made a circus-like catch to come down with the ball in the end zone for a 39-yard score.

Bethel-Roman would add to his highlight reel with a 76-yard catch to bring the ball all the way to South Carolina’s 14-yard line, where Reed connected with tight end Nate Boerkircher for a touchdown, the score going from 30-3 to 30-24 in the span of a quarter.

After A&M forced a punt from the Gamecocks, they would then embark on a 10-play, 98-yard drive that culminated in a two-yard punch-in from EJ Smith, completing A&M’s comeback and giving them their first lead of the afternoon.

However, there were still nearly 11 minutes left in the game, and a fumble from running back Jamarion Morrow with three minutes to go did not do the College Station crowd any favors.

Thankfully for the Aggies, they had a dynamic duo of defensive linemen in Tyler Onyedim and Cashius Howell, who each recorded sacks on the ensuing drive, and Howell chased Sellers out of bounds on 4th & 16 to force a turnover on downs, sealing the game, keeping the Aggies undefeated, and capping off the greatest comeback in the history of Texas A&M football.

The Aggies and Gamecocks meet again in Columbia on November 7, where A&M has not won since serving up a 48-3 pummeling of South Carolina back in 2020.

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