Children’s Culture Guide for Adults: Did Ancient Rome Exist?
At the height of the holiday season, young people travel to different dimensions, denying the existence of Ancient Rome and learning more about snowflakes than you might even think.
TikTok historian disputes the existence of the Roman Empire
I never get tired of the crazy stuff that TikTok people come up with like this: @momllennial_ thinks ancient Rome never existed. It seems in general. According to her, Ancient Rome is “a figment of the imagination of the Spanish Inquisition . “ “It’s not real, man,” she insists. “This is bread and circuses. This is a circus, buddy.
According to @momllennial, Hadrian’s Wall in Britain is actually a road built by Greek merchants, even though it was clearly a Roman-built wall. (I mean, it’s right there . You can visit this .) Real historians and professors of classical literature, oddly enough, don’t mourn the end of their careers. They point out that “Ancient Rome really was real” and “ Oh my God, this is so, so stupid ” (to paraphrase).
TikTok Dimension Shifters and Quantum Jumpers
Since I’m doing weird conspiracies on TikTok, how about this: you can “switch” from this universe / dimension to alternate ones. @kadyroxz moved to alternate universe in 2017 during a school trip . This dude thinks we all changed dimensions in 2021 . “The atmosphere was really weird,” he explains. (But don’t worry, we’re back in regular dimension again.) Check out the awesome Quantumjumping hash for endlessly fun videos.
I believe this is 100% real. I suppose I can either live in a timeline where scientists in Antarctica found anomalous radio signals pointing to a parallel universe where Time is running back, then the kids on TikTok figured out how to get there, or I can live in a boring “real” timeline where the Cause of it all was dense ice or underground lakes, and the kids on TikTok are just stupid. I know what I prefer, and I’m going there. Right. Currently. (Get lost!)
What is the Kool-Aid Man Challenge?
I keep vowing to stop reporting false TikTok hoaxes that the media and police departments are hitting, but The Kool-Aid Man Challenge is just too good. Reputable news outlets from Ktvb7 News in Caldwell, Idaho to silive.com in Staten Island, NY , to local police and Fox8Live in Massillon, Ohio are holding their breath about the new TikTok trend where kids scream ” Oh yeah!” and breaks through fences like the Kool-Aid Man.
I really want this to happen, but unfortunately it doesn’t. While some people in the country seem to have had their fences damaged in the past few months, I can’t find a single video posted on TikTok where anyone has challenged this, and TikTok denies that they have ever existed. There is no reason to believe that possible vandalism has anything to do with Kool-Aid. I think the headline “Fence Damaged in Ohio, Possibly Windy” is not as sexy a headline as “District youth imitates sensible drink pitcher, destroy fence.”
Spotify Wrapped Now Available
Let your music-loving friends know: Spotify’s annual “packed” feature has dropped . Wrapped collects statistics on your most popular artists, songs, podcasts and genres and presents them for you in a small video so you can pinpoint exactly how weak your musical tastes are – or how good they are if you’re so tasteful. like me. (“Kid Charlemagne” is an extravaganza. ) The most popular music artists of the year on Spotify include Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift and BTS, but the overall win for the second year in a row was Bad Bunny, who earned over 9 billion streams despite in 2021 did not release any new music.
Viral Video of the Week: The Mystery of the Snowflake
This week’s viral video is in line with the season. TheMystery of the Snowflake is a mini-documentary about Dr. Kenneth Libbrecht , the undisputed king of the snowflakes in the world. Professor of physics and head of the department at Caltech, Libbrecht has published four books about snowflakes, his photographs of snowflakes appeared on stamps, and he was an official adviser on snowflakes for the film “Cold Heart.” The dude lives in Winter Wonderland all the time. He even creates his own snowflakes, changing the criteria of the snowflakes until they are perfect for him. “I like to think they’re better than nature,” Libbrecht says ominously, and I can’t help but worry that his possession of the snowflakes of the world has hit him in the head and he’ll soon turn into a supervillain. Anyway, if you are even a little interested in snowflakes, join over 2 million YouTube users andjump in now .