A Guide to Children’s Culture for Adults Out of Touch With Reality: Why Is Lil Yachty in Poland?

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Halloween is coming and things are getting really weird. Rapper Lil Yachty walks in Poland, and tiktokers put pumpkins on their heads, buy up all the skeletons on earth and turn their pets into demons. Oh, and NFT marketers are entering the realm of TikTok to lie to kids about the metaverse.

Viral Video of the Week: Lil Yachty Poland (Music Video)

If you are among the youth this week, you will hear them sing about the campaigns in Poland. The culprit is rapper Lil Yachty’s “Poland”, a dreamy earworm with a chorus that sticks right into your brain and lives there until you too start walking around chanting “I took the woooock to Poland.” The “official” video of Yachty actually walking around Poland was released half an hour before I wrote this, but if the next day there is not a million views, I will be shocked.

As far as what the song means, the word “walk/wok” has a double meaning. Wock is supposedly short for Wockhardt, a pharmaceutical company that makes codeine cough syrup. It makes a lot more sense when combined with the track’s drawn out, trilling lo-fi vibe. But maybe I’m wrong and it’s just a great song about walking around Eastern Europe. Check it out and decide for yourself.

TikTok is getting ready for Halloween

TikTok is celebrating Halloween in its own way. Below are three TikTok trends related to the spooky season.

  • TikTok pumpkin heads are back : For the second year in a row, TikTok is celebrating Halloween by buying huge pumpkins, hollowing them out, running around and posing for hilarious photos. It’s called the Pumpkinhead Photoshoot Challenge , and it rocks.
  • Belial, Behemoth and Beelzebub invade TikTok : The famous demons Belial, Behemoth, Beelzebub, Asmodeus, Satan and Lucifer have never been so charming. In a new challenge, trend, or whatever, TikTokers freeze their pets ( dogs , ferrets , ducks , and even a crow ) to look like named demons to a moody neo-gothic soundtrack. As always in such things, it is more interesting to watch than to explain .

#PorcelainChallenge creator banned from TikTok

TikTok doesn’t understand jokes. Sebastian Derfey, formerly known as @childprogeny, posted a video promoting The Porcelain Challenge, in which children smash their parents’ antique china, grind it into powder and sniff it. However, this is not a shocking new trend. This is a joke , improved upon by other TikToker users who responded by posting the video on Facebook and posting fake messages that TikTok was deleting the video because children were harmed.

In a case where life imitates jokes, TikTok did indeed ban Durfy from the site, remove videos with hashtags, and even remove videos that say TikTok is removing videos. Message: Don’t try to be funny; TikTok is serious business.

Virtual strippers, the Metaverse and the NFT collide in an unholy high-tech nightmare

I usually don’t cover anything in the Metaverse because I don’t really understand what it is and literally no one uses it, but this story is a high-tech Russian matryoshka horror of at least a five-level level. deep. It’s like something out of a dystopian futurist’s worst acid trip, too gruesome to ignore. I’ll try to explain:

There are TikTok videos (Level 1) telling young men that they can make a lot of money if they become virtual (female) strippers in the Metaverse (Level 2). According to the ad, in order to sign up for a highly paid virtual sex job, you must visit a Discord server (level 3). Those who have climbed this far into the rotten apple will eventually find out that it is a bait and a spoof when they are directed to another Discord channel that is promoting some NFT fly-by-night project (level 4). All this happens within the framework of Western capitalism (level 5).

I can’t think about the modern world anymore. Goodbye. “I’m taking woooooooock – to Poland.”

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