A Child Culture Guide for Disconnected Adults: Who Takes the First Selfie?
Is the selfie postmodern evidence of radical self-love, or just an annoying trend? I have no idea, but I have an idea of who took the first selfie in history thanks to this week’s viral video. But that’s not all, I take a measured, comprehensive approach to youth pop culture: there are good things, there are bad things, there are stupid things, and there are completely forgettable things.
Kids React to Parents Dancing to Taylor Swift
I’m a cynical bastard, but even my chilling heart has been melted by this TikTok trend: Parents are asking their kids to shoot videos of parents dancing to Taylor Swift’s “Love Story” (Taylor’s version) and then switch to the front camera to catch the kids’ reactions to the parents’ dance . These are kids who are too small to be embarrassed or worried about whether it’s cool or not, so these are just close-ups of beaming babies, whose eyes are full of love, delight and surprise. Sometimes the world offers exactly what you did not even suspect, and for me this video . Make your life better by looking as much as possible .
Young Dolph murder suspect releases track from jail
A day before the anniversary of the murder of Memphis rapper Young Dolph, one of the men accused of shooting him released a rap song about the prison case. With vocals recorded on a prison phone, Justin Johnson (a.k.a. Straight Drop) “No Statements” promises he won’t talk about the murder, with lyrics such as “No statement must be patient, can come home before you blink.” “.
Though I wouldn’t bet too much on it. Somewhere, Johnson’s lawyer is tearing his hair out for not explaining that “do not make a statement” includes being silent about the case in a YouTube video. When asked about the track, Young Dolph’s collaborator PaperRoute Woo said, “What was done in the dark has come to light, so it’s all good.”
You probably shouldn’t support using kill as a way to get clicks on YouTube (there’s really nothing else to recommend from the track), but if you must, here’s a link.
“Steak Toaster” Happened
There are so many people using steak toasters that the London Fire Brigade was forced to issue a warning against the practice. “We remind people to use electrical products only for their intended purpose. Don’t cook steaks in the toaster,” the fire brigade tweeted .
The toaster steak hashtag shows some people putting rib-eye in their toasters , but more people are saying, “Hey, that’s pretty dumb. I mean, all you have to do to cook a steak is put it on a hot surface for a few minutes, so it doesn’t even make things any easier. It only ruins the toaster and the steak.
Dancing like Koopa and make-up “I’m cold”
Here are a couple of cultural farts that you will never know about, that you should immediately forget about:
- Dance Like Koopa : Remember how Koopa danced in the Super Mario games? How did they stop everything and wave their arms during “ba-ba”? It is now fashionable to imagine how Koopa dance in inappropriate situations – for example, this is how Koopa will dance while fighting in court for custody of her children . Here is Koopa reprocessing trauma in a darkroom . Here Kupa finds out that his wife was killed.
- I’m Cold Makeup : If you want your face to look like you’re the protagonist of a Christmas movie and you’ve been outside on a frosty day, try the I’m Cold Makeup . (Spoiler alert: you’re applying extra blush.)
Viral video of the week: Who took the first selfie?
YouTuber Vsauce should be declared a national treasure and saved for a monumental crisis. His latest video asks “Who took the first selfie?” An interesting question in itself, but Vsauce’s profound answer is even more exciting because the first selfie could have been “taken” millions of years ago. Or maybe it was in the 1830s. Perhaps Anastasia Romanova, daughter of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II, invented the selfie before she was assassinated by the Bolsheviks. Or maybe the selfie didn’t exist until 2002 when the word was first used. It really depends on what you mean by “selfie”. If you watch the video, you will know why a selfie should be called a “felfi” and that there is at least one example of a “reverse selfie”: a photograph of every living person, except for the person taking the picture.