This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they’re going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. “I will explode your butthole with this poopmaxxer pesto,” a calm Gen Z voice announced from my phone’s speakers. “And don’t worry, it doesn’t taste like poop, unless that’s what you’re into … I don’t know if Italians will approve of this, but it’s for my … a-butt-a-hole-a!” What followed in that video was actually a pretty good recipe. Two cups of blanched peas mixed into a fairly standard pesto recipe for a yield of 18 grams of fiber. Never mind my spouse’s flabbergasted face as the video played over and over while I blanched and blended in the kitchen. Not all TikTok fibermaxxers are as disturbingly whimsical as @hallysicle, a self-described “chaotic wellness” creator responsible for the poopmaxxer pesto; the cognitive dissonance of her deadpan scatological narration, cottagecore kawaii aesthetic, and actually good recipes is very much her own creation. That said, many of TikTok’s fiberheads are gleefully unhinged when preaching the benefits of the criminally underappreciated and underconsumed macronutrient. There’s Liam, a friendly...