A Guide to Child Culture for Adults Out of Touch With Reality: What Did Ezra Miller Do?
Young people are often criticized for believing in weird things like mystical folk magic practices and zombie infestations, but some very influential adults also thought it was a good idea to invest $200 million in a movie starring Ezra Miller, so that no one will be left without sin.
Ezra Miller’s many (alleged) crimes
If you are too busy with your life – work, cleaning, etc. – to know who Ezra Miller is, let me tell you. The 29-year-old actor is known for portraying entering the speed force while playing the Flash in the DC Extended Universe, and for being framed for crimes. Like a ton of crime. Here is a partial list of crimes associated with Miller:
- Drug possession
- Hooliganism
- Bullying at a karaoke bar
- to attack
- Break-in
And these are official accusations. More dramatic allegations include sexual harassment, cult leadership, grooming, inappropriate behavior with children, and more. (If you’re interested, here are all the dirty details .) All of this is relevant mainly because Warner Bros. plans to release a feature film starring Miller as The Flash in 2023 . The Flash is said to have a budget of around $200 million, so a lot depends on this frivolous actor. Keep for updates.
News: Teens hate Facebook
Maybe it’s privacy concerns, the monetization of political disinformation, or Zuckerberg’s goofy face, but teenagers don’t like Facebook at all. According to a Pew Research Center survey of teens aged 13 to 17, Facebook is less popular than YouTube, TikTok, Instagram (which is admittedly owned by Facebook’s parent company Meta) and Snapchat. Only 32% of teens surveyed say they use Facebook, up from 71% in 2015. On the other hand, Facebook is more popular among teenagers than Twitter, WhatsApp, Reddit, Tumblr and they are told to do the dishes. Unlike Facebook, YouTube is extremely popular with kids, with 95% of them reporting using it. TikTok comes in second with 67%.
TikTok honey method cursing people mystically? (Not.)
I don’t know why, but I’m fascinated by the mystique of TikTok. This week WitchTok is all about the honey method. It works like this: you get some honey. You are thinking about the person you like. You draw a cross on your tongue with honey. This will make the object of your desire obsessive and make you talk sweetly about him. (I mean it won’t, but that’s what the proponents of the practice say.) Effective or not, it has a certain style of magical realism that I can appreciate. However, according to some tiktokers, this is a traditional Latin American magical practice (I have no idea if this is the case, but they say so), so it contains a cultural appropriation warning. If you are not Hispanic and cast a honey spell, bad things can happen to you . So be careful and stick to the folk magic traditions of your own culture to be on the safe side.
Are there zombies in China? (Not.)
Almost 7 million videos have been viewed on TikTok under the hashtag ZombiesInChina . Many videos make fun of the idea, but some TikTok users seem to legitimately believe that there is a zombie uprising going on in China right now.
To dispel all doubts, there is no zombie outbreak in China. There is nothing to worry about because, according to this video , there was only one zombie, “but he was very weak and did not harm anyone. They killed it minutes after it was created.” Thank God. Yes, it’s silly, but people can be forgiven for giving this idea little value given how crazy real life events have been over the past five years or so, and also because of it .
Viral Video of the Week: “School Theater Regrets” featuring @Caleb Hyles
I can’t sing, dance or act, but I did all the school musicals anyway – I just liked the atmosphere. Now that I’m kind of an adult, I still love the vibe – all my favorite people in the world were theater fans in high school. This week’s viral ” My Regrets About the School Theatre ” video offers encouraging evidence that this subspecies of teenager is still alive, still nerdy-hearted in his very specific theatrical vein, and still rocking school plays in the post-universal era. . This is reassuring. Also, telling personal, random stories through homemade animation is a very internet genre, and illymation really pulls it off.