Jazz hands

I believed it. Sadly it's not real: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/plutonium-jazz

It seems believable given the story of the “Radium Girls”, workers who painted radioactive paint on watch dials to make them glow. They’d lick the tips of the brushes when they got too frayed… which eventually led to cancer.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/19/style/radium-girls-radioactive-paint/index.html#:~:text=Women painting alarm clock faces,brush and ingesting radioactive radium.
- Whoa. Eating radioactive material isn't great at all.
  
  From a different time, too: An X-Ray shoe fitter
- To be fair, the factory management knew that it was dangerous but didn't tell the workers and encouraged them to lick the brush.
Sadly??
Phew.

I came to the comments for this hope.

This sounds like something that was made up for a fallout game.

Of course, so does "bombarding myself with xrays and moving around to entertain the audience looking at my bones" and "including uranium in paint to make watch dials glow"

They did it with uranium too? I knew about radium, but not that.
- Uranium wasn't used for watch dials, but Uranium Orange is a colour of cermic glaze. It was pretty popular in America from the 1930's to around 1942, when the government needed all the uranium for some big secret project. After the 60's it was made with depleted uranium, instead of natural ore, until someone realized this still wasn't a great idea.
Sadly, it is. (But not for Fallout specifically.)

I believed this was real until I searched for it 😂 To be fair to my own credulity, Plutonium Jazz would not be the most insane thing people did with radioactive materials back then. The "medicines" alone make Plutonium Jazz sound pretty tame.

But Geiger counters aren't rhythmic at all, radioactive decay is, pretty famously, random.

True, much like memes are pretty famously fabricated.
... Jazz.

/S
Rhythmic? No, not really. More exciting if the musician could somehow anticipate this fundamentally unpredictable event? Absolutely.
Follows a Poisson distribution. I guess one could call that random.
- Well, its random, like... by definition.

The third sentence makes it clear it's fake

Geiger counters aren't rhythmic, they're random
How would the audience know the beat matches the counter?
Random music doesn't sound good, the audience would be more excited for good music

Disappointed in the people who believed this.

Well... This is jazz... I'm skeptic as well, but what if it was some sort of experimental modern jazz where the musicians would try to predict the next click?
- You can't predict the next click, that's what random means. This would never have gotten far enough to appear in front of an audience. They would have tried it at rehearsal and realised it was impossible.
And even if it worked, you wouldn't need a radiation source more dangerous than a banana to make a geiger counter go click enough to play along.