Disconnected Adults’ Guide to Child Culture: Do You Really Need ID to Watch Porn in Louisiana?
While the House of Representatives is stuck in a hell of a series of endless votes that decide nothing, their grandchildren are celebrating the new year by creating memes about a strange dog breed, getting rid of useless NFTs and lying to their parents about dead celebrities. But at least they don’t have a driver’s license, so we know they’re safe from online porn… at least in Louisiana.
Meet the newest dog meme: the greyhound
Step aside, Spitz, Shiba Inu, and Corgi: Memesville has a new canine sheriff. Greyhounds are taking over the internet. These puppies, also known as Russian wolfhounds, were originally bred as greyhounds for hunting. They’re athletic, loyal, and level-headed, but that’s not why TikTok likes them so much. The key to the breed’s charm is their comically elongated muzzles topped with large, expressive eyes that make them look like a wide variety of objects with a unique poignancy. They look like soap dispensers , pencils , door stops , anteaters , flexible socks , and pizza slices . They look funny with eyebrows . But mostly they look somehow vulnerable and sad. Greyhounds are the perfect meme dogs until the next breed comes along.
Why do kids tell their parents that their favorite celebrity has died?
If your child or other young person in your life tells you that your favorite famous person has died, don’t fall for it. Letting your parents know that their favorite celebrity has fallen and filming a reaction to a video is a trend that has been gaining popularity over the past week or so on the TikTok machine. For the record: Elton John , Barack Obama, Jennifer Aniston and Donald Trump are all alive, despite videos showing adults’ anguished reactions to their deaths. I like hurt jokes as much as anyone else and it can be fun to see upset people go through the supposed death of people they will never see, but on the other hand these videos essentially make fun of people for having they have emotions, and that’s not cool. It’s especially not cool when you tell your parents that their friend (by the way, a famous one) has died, as recently happened with actress Angela Bassett .
A company that buys worthless NFTs
In perhaps fitting code for the entire NFT saga, a couple of entrepreneurs have started a company that buys worthless NFTs so that people who invest in digital goods can at least get rid of them and write off the losses on their taxes. The firm is called Unsellable and it will buy any NFT bought on the Ethereum blockchain, regardless of quality or rarity, for the equivalent of one cent and then send you a receipt so you can prove to the IRS that you really invested a lot. money in digital magic beans. However, they will not sell you your NFT for two cents. At the moment they say they have purchased 5000 NFTs and it’s a little unclear what they’re going to do with them. Since this is happening in the NFT world, there is a chance it could be some sort of scam or waste of money. Shocking, I know.
Louisiana’s new pornography law raises serious questions
On Jan. 1, a new state law went into effect in Louisiana that requires websites hosting pornographic material to verify the age of people visiting their sites. Instead of answering “yes” to the question “Are you over 18?” Louisiana porn lovers trying to access sites like Pornhub will need to provide ID to prove they are adults who want to masturbate. In practice, this means creating an AllPassTrust account and sending them a copy of your driver’s license. While Louisiana promises it won’t collect or store user addresses or phone numbers, this is making some people nervous. Who wants their name on this list, right?
There is also the problem of the vagueness of the law. It states that sites that contain more than 33.3% of pornography are required to age check, but defining pornography beyond “I recognize it when I see it” seems impossible, let alone defining which sites contain more than one-third of pornography. . There is a lot of porn on Reddit, but 33% of it? How about Twitter? If a site posts two generic photos for each nude, is identity verification required? I know the South does things a little differently, but I would be surprised if this law wasn’t quickly challenged in court. After all, money has to be made. (Besides, what’s stopping young people from using the most trusted porn site, Google Images?)
Viral Video of the Week: “Playing Every Frogger Game to Feel Something”
YouTuber Noodle maintains a fun channel where he talks about video games with homemade paper dolls. This week he delves into the history of Frogger , playing every iteration of the series in the aptly titled video, playing every Frogger game just to get a feel for something . I didn’t even know there were Frogger games besides Frogger , but it turns out there have been plenty of weird and mostly terrible attempts to port the franchise to more modern gaming systems, including a Legend of Zelda -style foray called Frogger’s Journey: The Forgotten Relic and the truly terrifying 3D platform game called Frogger: The Great Quest . I know that video game characters are just a collection of pixels with no human emotions, but there is something sad about most of the retrofits of old game stars. I imagine Pac-Man as Norma Desmond, alone in his 80s mansion, drunkenly reminiscing about when he was the biggest star in the world, wondering how Mario manages to stay relevant for so long, and drunkenly dialing Miss Pac-Man and hanging up handset.