The Disconnected Adult’s Guide to Children’s Culture: the Disengaged Adult’s Guide to Children’s Culture: What Is Pink Cocaine?
This week’s journey into the hidden world of young people includes a new drug cocktail, moldy food from Mr. Beast, Halloween trends and more. So grab yourself a spoonful of pink coke and read on.
What is pink cocaine?
Following the death of One Direction singer Liam Payne, an initial toxicology report revealed the 31-year-old pop star had “pink cocaine” in his system. This has led many to wonder, “ What is pink cocaine?”
According to the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse , “pink snow” or “pink cocaine” is slang for a powdered mixture that usually contains some combination of ketamine, MDMA, methamphetamine, opioids and other substances; Essentially, it’s like mixing up all the sodas in the soda fountain. It is also called “tusi”, a reference to the 2C series of psychedelics , although drug experts say pink snow rarely contains any 2C chemicals. It also rarely contains cocaine (I’m guessing because that shit is expensive) and isn’t pink. The color comes from food coloring. The effects of inhaling this substance are unknown because it can contain literally anything.
Medical experts generally discourage the use of unknown mixtures of psychoactive substances and consider pink cocaine to be especially dangerous because it is often a mixture of tonic and stimulant substances. As Bridget Brennan, New York’s special drug prosecutor, told NBC News , “If you have a drug that makes your heart beat faster and another drug that makes your heart slow down, that’s a problem.” (Possibly a problem for squares .)
Lunch release spoiled by mold
A couple of weeks ago, this column reported on the launch of prepackaged lunch product Lunchly from super-influencer Mr. Beast. Things are not going well. No one has reported poisoning (yet), but according to online tasters, Lunchly is moldy .
The word originally came from YouTuber and foodie Rosanna Pansino, who discovered moldy food while comparing Lunchly and Lunchables. This led to other users posting their own musty Lunchly videos online. The cheese appears to grow mold, which is funny considering Lunchly boasts that it contains “real cheese.” It turns out that real cheese is more difficult to store than cheese products from competing fast food items.
So far Mr. Beast has not responded to the “your food is moldy bro” controversy. If I were him, I would give a harsh response, calling the critics a bunch of weaklings. I would say, “Everyone is always whining about processed foods that have too many preservatives, right? Well, that’s what happens when there aren’t enough preservatives in the food, so you whiners should shut up and eat your damn mold.” “(There’s a reason I didn’t do crisis PR.)
What does “fein” mean?
If you’re wondering why the young people around you keep using the word “fein”, don’t be confused: it’s a misspelled shortened version of the word “fiend” and usually refers to a person who is passionate about something. The word’s popularity can be attributed partly to Travis Scott and Playboy Carti’s collaboration ” FE!N ” and partly to this viral video of a group of kids screaming to a choir at a concert .
Three Halloween Trends: Dumb Aaah Pumpkins, Vintage Decor, and Hey, Wake Up. I’m dead, remember?
It’s spooky season; Here are three ways young people are celebrating this special time of year and making Halloween their own.
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Dumb “Ahh” pumpkins. The hottest trend among Jack-o’-lanterns this year is the ” dumb aaah pumpkin ,” which is a pumpkin carved into the shape of a smiling, toothy emoji. (“Dumb ahh” is a way of saying “stupid ass”). After you’ve carved your stupid pumpkin, you take a video and post it to TikTok. Here are some examples .
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Vintage Halloween Decor: Hipsters and hipster-adjacent youth are shunning the elaborate, animatronic modern Halloween decorations found at Home Depot in favor of vintage Halloween decorations , such as cardboard cutout ghosts and witches , “melted popcorn” decorations , and lightweight decorations . plastic pumpkins . A lot of retro jewelry can be purchased new, but it’s obviously cooler to have authentic jewelry from the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
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“Hey, wake up. I’m dead, remember?” : This meme template isn’t overtly Halloween, but it’s creepy and death-related, and that’s it for me. So far, there have been over 266,000 videos made using this creepy little piano riff, many of them featuring a video of someone almost falling out of this mortal coil, with explanatory text about how they almost died, for example: ” Wake up, I died a year ago.” back. Nobody believed me when I said I was being stalked. ” They’re sad and creepy , and the fact that we have no way of knowing if these things happened makes them even creepier!”
What happened to MCAA/Minecraft college football?
Minecraft is simply amazing. The game was released in 2009, and users are still finding unique ways to use it for creativity. The latest craze is MCAA, or Minecraft College Football, where users create video clips of fictional football moments using Minecraft . The earliest video I could find about this trend is from July, and the story has evolved since then, including a bitter rivalry between Pig State and Ole Moo, the emergence of Creeper A&M and Villager Tech , and many stadium bombings (creepers are suspected. )
Viral Videos of the Week: “St. Chroma and Noid
This week features two viral videos from rapper Tyler the Creator. Released ahead of the October 28 release date for Tyler’s next album, CHROMAKOPIA , kids are going crazy for these videos, racking up a total of over 16 million views in a week or so, and they’re already calling Tyler’s new release a “generational album” (even though it’s hasn’t come out yet). Tyler’s new album is one of those increasingly rare collaborative cultural events for young people, and it’s great that the hype is being driven by something actually good. ” Noid ” is a paranoid video/song about the terrifying nature of fame, featuring a soaring guitar riff taken from 1970s Zambian rocker Paul Ngozi , while ” St. Chroma ” is a brief snippet of synth-drenched marching.