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This week, I’m breaking down some of the biggest internet youth trends that even gray beards can grasp, from esoteric financial instruments to the vast fast food conspiracy and a look at some of TikTok’s most famous time travelers.
Why is everyone talking about Dogecoin?
The biggest financial meme on the internet this week is undoubtedly Dogecoin . This cryptocurrency, dubbed “dohj coin”, appeared in 2013, but unlike bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies, Dogecoin was never conceived as a serious investment or currency. It was started as a joke, a parody of other coins. Even the name is based on a forgotten meme. But nobody else is laughing.
The sudden interest on the Internet and a couple of tweets from Elon Musk and Mark Cuban sent the price of Dogecoin into the ionosphere. It has grown more than 11,000% this year and has a total market capitalization of over $ 65 billion.
Free advice: It’s too late to catch this train. This is a fancy meme-based attachment and is likely to drop quickly. Also, don’t waste your wallet.
True story: When Dogecoin was launched in 2013, I thought it was funny and spent an hour or two collecting the then-valueless currency. I think I made about $ 0.35 before I got bored. My Dogecoin is now worth $ 4025, but it’s in a long-forgotten digital wallet somewhere behind a password that I didn’t write down.
Why is everyone talking about NFT?
The second most interesting investment meme on the Internet this week is NFTs, because in fact they are often invested in memes. NFT or ” Non-Fungible Token ” is a unique cryptographic token that identifies a digital asset (it can be applied to real assets as well, but for the sake of brevity I will stick to digital). Basically, NFT is a way to authenticate and own a piece of digital content , whether it’s virtual real estate in the online world, unique skins or weapons in video games, bred digital cats, or digital art.
Users create, buy and sell digital asset ownership on marketplaces like opensea.io , allowing some people to get rich and others to lose their shirts, all without being burdened with physical objects.
Before throwing them aside as a joke, keep in mind: the most expensive NFT – a collection of 5,000 digital art by the artist Beeple – recently auctioned for over $ 60 million .
Why is everyone talking about sour milk?
Squishmallow is part pillow, part plush, and kids can’t get enough of these adorable things. Things are flying off store shelves, and if the trend continues, they will fall into the “can not be bought at any price” category, as in past trendy toys such as Beanie Babies and Tickle-me-Elmo. They are already so popular that there are already shortages in stores , online guides on where to buy them, and a steady and growing market for used goods on eBay .
You should buy as many milkshakes as possible, otherwise you will only be disappointed at Christmas. Or buy them as an “investment” and sell them to desperate parents in mid-December. Do you want to miss how you missed Dogecoin?
Why is everyone talking about time travelers on TikTok?
TikTok – is home to a variety of people, from students, drivers, terrorizing his parents, to the people who again and again publish one and the same picture pears . And it also has time travelers. There are many of them .
For example, Jimcarreyofficial says he’s a time traveler but seems to be joking, while @Authentictimetraveler is downright serious. He says he’s from the year 2582, and he totally agrees with the possible disruption of the cosmic continuum, revealing future events to his 200,000 or so TikTok followers. Most of his videos involve either the discovery of new species of animals, or warnings of impending environmental disasters, or the claim that he is a true time traveler. I give it a point and a half out of five on the Internet Time Traveler’s scale – the future should be less preaching and insecure.
On the other side of the time travel spectrum is Javier . He lives in 2027 and he is the last person alive. His videos are evocative, depressing footage of an empty world trapped in him, a world that looks just like ours, but devoid of people and animals. He’s a soldier, looking, desperate to find somebody, somebody else, on the ground. Five out of five stars.
Viral Video of the Week: The Real Reason Why McDonald’s Ice Cream Makers Always Break
In a viral video this week, YouTuber Johnny Harris uncovers an international fast food conspiracy. Particularly why McDonald’s ice cream machines always break.
For the past few years, the Internet has been fascinated by the instability of McIceCream machines. It has spawned countless theories, memes, songs, and even a web page that tracks the health of the ice cream machines in every McDonald’s in the country . According to research by mainstream media outlets, the commonplace, innocent explanation for malfunctioning treat machines is that they take a long time to clean automatically , but that answer doesn’t stand up to scrutiny – for example, Wendy has ice. cream machines to be peeled and they usually work.
To unravel the mystery, Harris delves deeply into the minutiae of ice cream machine maintenance, franchisee contracts, and the underside of corporate capitalism to arrive at a more complex and slightly nefarious explanation of the problem. But I will not spoil it. Watch thevideo yourself .