Child Culture Guide for Adults: Everyone Falls for a Fake Offer
This week, on the good ship The Ever Given, the world is asking the question, “Aren’t we all a cargo ship stuck in the Suez Canal?” Also, a surprisingly large number of people talk about the size of the forehead on TikTok and the failed video with the proposal, which is probably fake, but is fooling millions.
Meme of the Week: The Plight of The Ever Given
When you find out that a huge container ship is stuck in the Suez Canal, you can either be intimidated by the fragility of the global supply line or enjoy some lovely memes. The ship in question, The Ever Given , ran aground on Tuesday and has since blocked 12 percent of global trade, which has inspired internet comedians to compare the situation to that scene in Austin Powers , write tribute songs , create new accounts like like ” The Guy”. with “Digger in the Suez Canal ” (which promises that “I will have a lot to say at the upcoming performance”), and points out that the world’s ships re-routing around the Cape of Good Hope is some old school pirate shit. …
Rescue work can take weeks, so be prepared for tons of hilarious memes to cheer you up during the nightmare that this unexpected interruption to global capitalism is sure to create.
Online Body Part of the Week: Forehead
TikTok is staring closely at the human forehead this week. This ubiquitous part of the face is at the center of the discussion about body positivity and the need for bangs. It came to a head (you know?) Recently, when model Camilla Coleman Brooks revealed on TikTok that she had surgery to reduce her forehead. Join a big gang that says they take pride in their skulls, even if their hair seems to fear their eyebrows.
There’s a whole forehead movement going on right under our noses, whether it’s a “ forehead challenge ” as you slowly show if you have a forehead, a five or even a six-headed , tips on how to use makeup to hide the heartbreaking shame of a big forehead and everything else. what to expect from a rabbit hole on the internet. I realize that I am far from the target market of frontal TikTok, but I have all these boys. Male pattern baldness rules!
YouTube Genre of the Week: Reaction Videos
Before the internet, no one could predict the popularity of other people’s video watching, but millions of people are addicted to “reaction videos” on YouTube. The genre in which reactors film themselves, reacting to pretty much everything from classic songs to comedy sketches to jump horror has been around in one form or another for at least a decade when the first videos appeared. “Kids React” went viral, but recently became popular again.
While you can watch everything from the “elders”voicing their thoughts on rapper Lil Skies (they are, as you would expect, terrified) tometalheads checking outChildish Gambino’s“This is America “, orthe jazz reaction singer on Bjork. The most popular are videos of young black people reacting to classic rock.
TwinsthenewTrend , the current kings of the reaction, regularly collected millions of views for having enthusiastically listen to and comment on tracks such authors as Phil Collins, Dolly Parton and Aerosmith. While the twins are undoubtedly funny, charismatic and insightful music critics, there’s something cultural going on here too. But you will need a master’s degree thesis to truly understand why so many millions of people want to see young blacks enjoying older “white” music. So I’ll just shrug my shoulders and say, “I don’t know, dude,” as I do now about a lot of things.
In any case, the already recursive genre is quickly eating its own tail, like this video whereteenagers react to their younger selves, reacting to things , orreacting to reaction to reaction to reaction to reaction torea …
Viral Video of the Week: Ben 10’s Proposal Fails
A viral video this week shows how the marriage proposal went wrong. In it, an internet guy who calls himself Matt 10 dresses up as the Ben Tennyson cartoon character from Ben 10 (just like you), kneels on one knee in front of the Menlo Park Mall food court, and asks a big question. However, his girlfriend does not accept any of this and leaves. Ouch.
At the moment, the video has been watched by more than 10 million people. It got so viral that even New Jersey’s Twitter account went live, tweeting, “Please don’t make suggestions to people at the Menlo Park Mall food court.” Good advice.
Of course, this is a fake. At least I’m pretty sure it’s a fake.Matt 10 and his friends seem pretty fake on his YouTube channel, and it’s too artful to look authentic. Besides, everything on the Internet is fake.
But you have to give credit to Matt 10: getting millions of people to pay attention to your video is a gimmick that legions of overpaid marketers fail on a daily basis. Great job, Matt 10. You trolled everyone … unless that’s true. Then we all laugh at the worst moment in the life of a seemingly mentally unstable young man … But it must be fake, right?