A Guide to Child Culture for Adults Out of Touch With Reality: Why Are Middle-Aged Men Called “girls”?

This week’s Guide Out of Touch looks at the impact of capitalism on youth, which is currently manifesting itself in TikTok’s pesky wealth-accumulating cults, ridiculous big-budget shark movies that everyone will see, and people using Venmo to bill their friends. literally for money. All. Then there’s the whole “girl” thing.

Why are middle-aged men called “girls”?

Even in its current state of corporate control and content fencing, the Internet still occasionally uses slang. The word at the moment is “babygirl,” a term coined in the depths of internet fandom to describe middle-aged male antiheroes in TV shows and movies who are both sociopathic and sympathetic. Fan favorite Walter White from Breaking Bad is a girl. So does Kendall Roy from Succession and Barry Blank from Barry ( although Barry seems to be a parody of a girl on the show).

According to the checklist of twitter user alanbincfan666 , the girl is over 30 years old, has experienced severe emotional trauma, seems to be tired of life all the time and would kill someone if given the opportunity. It’s me in everything but a real babe hates being called “baby” and I love it.

What is the Rich, Hot Girls Era trend?

There is a long tradition in the United States of a heartbreaking belief in upward class mobility. Despite all the evidence to the contrary, many people think they can achieve great things if they try really hard and stick to their dreams. They are called “suckers”. Back in the 1920s, a newspaper boy might have told you, “If you work hard enough and keep your shoes polished, you could be as rich as Rockefeller!” A hundred years later , we have TikTokers extolling the benefits of the “age of rich and hot girls.” You enter this precarious state by moving from a “scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset”, manifesting what you want, “talking about it” and “approaching each situation with two questions: Will this make me richer?” Or hotter? In other words: make your dreams come true by making yourself unbearable.

This sounds like a lot of work to me; I like to be poor and ugly as long as I can take a nap. In addition, the fashion for “rich hot girls” ignores the crushing reality of socio-economic factors that make it unlikely for people who are not yet born to become wealthy. On the other hand, trying to understand the American class system won’t make me richer or hotter, so I should probably focus on my grindset.

Students aren’t the only ones cheating on AI

Artificial intelligence is a big concern in academia because students are using it to cheat on papers, but this TikTok by raipotpie turns the discussion on its head. She claims that her college professor used ChatGPT to provide feedback on an essay she wrote. She checked the professor’s answer through an AI verification program, which determined that it was 1% human and 99% machine.

In the comments section, Raipotpi explained that she does not blame her teacher for not wanting to grade her work and that she used AI to write it anyway. Since the AI ​​is already making learning anything useless, I think we should just skip to the part where the AI ​​writes all the papers and then evaluates them. Why do people have to do all this boring shit? It doesn’t make us hotter and it doesn’t make us richer.

Venmo: how to transfer money in a passive-aggressive way

Using the Venmo money-changing app in the smallest ways imaginable is nothing new , but the trend is being passed down from millennials to Gen Z nowadays. Young people do shit like offer a friend a piece of their guacamole and then send he’s billed for $3.50 for “their share” or asked for $2.50 to eat one of the cookies you’ve baked . Imagine that a friend gives you a lift to your house and then sends a message that reads: “Which venmo do you have?? I need to charge you $2.47 for driving you home last night, mmm.

Sharing friends’ expenses is nothing new, but there’s something about how specific you can be with Venmo that makes it weird and fun. This is also the impersonal nature of the app. You’d probably be too embarrassed to ask someone to pay you back for a glass of wine they drank at your house , but using Venmo means you never have to hear, “Wait, are you serious? Do you want me to send you $0.38 for my share of the salsa jar ?” I started charging my friends for the time I spend with them and a per word fee for any messages received.

Viral Video of the Week: “MEG 2: THE TRENCH – OFFICIAL TRAILER”

Since there is no joy in my heart, I hate films that are supposed to be “entertaining”. I am very suspicious of spectacle, production value, competent sound design, actors with noticeable charisma, and everything that is “fun” in cinema. But sometimes a film is released that is so exaggerated, so ridiculous, and so overt in its attempts to please the public, that it completely transcends stupidity and short-circuits all critical thinking. “I have to watch this movie!” I speak as someone who has not watched all of Andrei Tarkovsky’s films. Right now, that movie is The Meg 2: The Trench , a tale of CGI sharks of unimaginable size. You wouldn’t think you could make a dumber Meg movie, or make bigger, fake shark-like ones, but the crazy bastards did it. I will be there among those who breathe through their mouths at the premiere on August 4th, and I will definitely go to the 3D screening.