Social media content creators have elevated the sardine from its reputation as a cheap dish for laborers and poor families to a beauty product for self-conscious individuals. 

Prominent among online promoters of eating sardines to produce "glass skin" is TikToker Sardine Queen, who has 1.2 million followers. One of her latest video posts featured Kentucky-based registered dietitian Amanda Nighbert, who explained that high-protein and low-carb sardines give the body healthy fats and vitamins that are also good for the skin.

"One serving provides you with an abundance of omega-3 fatty acids, 30 percent to 70 percent of your daily vitamin D needs, up to 130 percent of your B12 needs, and 70 percent to 90 percent of your daily selenium needs," Nighbert said, according to the New York Post.

Nighbert said that fish like salmon, mackerel and anchovies are also rich in omega-3 for people who can't consume sardines.

If sardines are good for maintaining smooth and healthy skin, mackerel may lead to good grooming.

Convicted crypto fraudster and money launderer Sam Bankman-Fried, who is detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, sported his trademark scraggy hairdo while awaiting his sentencing before his trial.

But at the start of his trial, the 31-year-old culprit in the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX stunned court observers when he appeared with a neat haircut.

Bankman-Fried reportedly paid jail guards in mackerel fish snacks to let him get a trim from another inmate, the New York Post reported.

Mackerel fish snacks apparently are the preferred currency for those detained at the notorious high-security detention center, according to NYP.

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