A Guide to Children’s Culture for Adults Out of Touch With Reality: Why Does Everyone Swear?
It’s a set of vaguely related trends highlighting the division of young people’s attention this week as we move from the aftermath of Hogwarts Legacy to the Big Lies told by Mexican restaurant chains to the unbelievably bizarre habit of eating oranges in the shower. . Besides, people fight here. (I didn’t know what that was either.)
Everybody here beezin’
The hottest (and silliest) new trend among the young and impressionable this week is called “beezin”: some TikTokers experimenters report that putting Burt’s Bees lip balm on your eyelids is high.
Always ready for cheap thrills, I tried it. I am not tall. Peppermint oil causes a slight tingling sensation that has little to do with MDMA.
According to Dr. Olivia Killin , an ophthalmologist at the University of Michigan, beezin is not only ineffective, but also potentially dangerous. “Applying substances that are not intended for the eyelids to the eyelids can cause irritation, redness, pain, and even chemical burns,” Killin said. “If they get into our eyes again, it can cause redness, pain, tearing, swelling, and in very severe situations, it can cause infections or even ulcers that can lead to scarring and vision loss.” What a total biz-murder.
There are oranges in the shower
Beezin is pretty dumb, but have you tried the orange shower? It won’t cheer you up, but the bold pioneers of TikTok and Reddit extol the virtues of drinking oranges in the shower. According to proponents , drinking an orange in the shower “takes the worry out of clutter” and “heat and humidity enhance the citrus taste and smell.” According to TikTok, it’s an “all-round experience.”
I really can’t argue with any of these points, but it still frustrates me internally. There’s nothing wrong with eating an orange in the shower, but it’s just not right . What’s next? Toilet chilli? Spaghetti with chocolate while bathing ? It’s also hard to tell if it’s a joke or not. The trend began with a seven-year-old Reddit post touting eating an orange for a shower as “the most carnal, ferocious, liberating thing a man can do,” but is it all an elaborate joke? Why is it only now becoming popular? Souls and oranges have been around for a long time. Man, life is sometimes mysterious.
Fajitas don’t really sizzle
If you recently noticed a collective breakdown in The Force, as if a million young people had reached a moment of sudden collective frustration, it might be this TikTok video . In it , sallamibrahim24 reveals the terrible truth about a chain of Mexican restaurants. “Sizzling fajitas” aren’t really sizzling. Instead, the chef squeezes a liquid (water? oil?) into a hot pan to produce an attention-grabbing steam that tells the entire restaurant, “Someone just ordered fajitas!”
This commenter speaks for everyone who is too young to realize that everything is fake anyway when he says, “I feel so betrayed like nothing else exists. Next time you’ll probably say that the Tooth Fairy isn’t real either. Where this guy has hope: “I’m still going there. A sizzling plate makes everything just taste good.”
Drama Hogwarts Legacy
Brilliant, food-savvy YouTuber Binging with Babish seems to be the latest to be at the center of an internet boycott, but that’s what’s happening this week. Cause of Conflict: The Hogwarts Legacy video game controversy. A recently posted video of Babish gives instructions on how to make a full English breakfast, surrounded by a sponsored ad showing Babish promoting Legacy to its 10 million YouTube subscribers. Many online residents feel that supporting the game is at least a tacit endorsement of the anti-trans views of Harry Potter creator JK Rowling. Babisha’s Instagram is filled with posters promising to unsubscribe, leaving comments like, “Dude, what a way to ruin this show. Later man. I guess having the privilege of all those followers didn’t make you think about how it would affect many of them.
Viral video of the week: Lies to the police after solving a graphic crime
There’s no shortage of true crime documentaries on YouTube, but That Chapter’s Mike O is one of the game’s frontrunners. His latest video , Lies to Police After Graphic Crime Discovery, details a fascinating Florida case (of course) with a brutal murder, two accused teenagers from opposite sides, a daring escape that turned one of them into a folk hero. , and more curves than Mario Kart 64 ‘s Rainbow Road. This is one of those stories that makes you wonder, “What actually happened ?” and it’s all anchored by a light-hearted delivery of Oh, tinged with an Irish accent. It borders on dark comedy, but never succumbs to insensitivity, which is exactly what I like about my true crime.