A Child Culture Guide for Disconnected Adults: Who Is Baby Gronk?
The Forces of Good and Evil are really fighting this week for cultural supremacy. On the good side, there are TikTok chicken wars, a poultry festival, and pure and beautiful nonsense. On the dark side, there is the rise of Baby Gronk, a 10-year-old athlete and internet star. The epitome of both extremes at the same time is the week’s evocative viral video “After College Life,” a short film that recounts an unremarkable day in a way that’s either comforting or frightening, depending on your point of view.
Who is Baby Gronk?
Baby Gronk is the nickname of rising internet celebrity Madden San Miguel, a 10-year-old athlete from Texas. The guy is relatively big for his age, so he plays football well. It wouldn’t have been remarkable in the past, but in 2023, a kid has over 300,000 followers on Instagram. His social media is run by his parents and they speculate that B. Gronk is being courted by many Division I college football programs (highly dubious) and that he has over 1,000 career touchdowns (even more dubious). for photos with celebrities such as Shaquille O’Neal and Mark Walber g, is filmed in a video where he counts money and announces : “I have 500,000 dollars ahead of me. You don’t pay, I don’t play,” and dances with half-naked girls .
It’s all creepy and sad – a small child lives in the nightmare of a garbage culture created by his overbearing parents. It may not technically be an abuse, but if you ask me, it’s close to an abuse and I wouldn’t be surprised if it becomes a milkshake next week.
Even at best, in a couple of years, other kids will catch up in size to Baby Gronk, and he will find out that he is not really a world-class athlete. Imagine how devastating that would be for a child who has been told all his life that he is a phenomenon. I guess his rage and attention-getting videos will come back to haunt him in high school.
TikTok Chicken Wars Explained
The existence of Baby Gronk suggests that we need to destroy the entire Internet, but there is a balancing force of love and happiness that suggests that we must save it: TikTok Chicken Wars! The chicken wars of 2023 began a few weeks ago when Canadian poultry farmer dylan_bezjack posted a video of him being chased by his chicken herd , promising, “Me and my posse will kick ass and take on a few names.” This drew applause from rival chicken dad @yourmomspoolboy_7_ and his chicken tongs. This opened the gates, leading to response after response from poultry farmers around the world, who chatted about the garbage and showed off their mighty flocks and roosters. Even the damn penguins started to drop down.
Check out this put together video of the best TikTok chicken armies getting ready for battle . I usually suggest you visit the chicken wars hashtag to find out more, but don’t worry. Like everything that becomes popular online, unfunny people ruined it.
Charlie D’Amelio Brings Back the Tamagotchi
Our new best friends at mashable.com caught up with internet celebrity Charlie D’Amelio to talk about the Tamagotchi. The internet celebrity and queen of TikTok is the next generation of virtual pets. Describing the chance to work with Tamagotchi as “a full circle moment,” D’Amelio promises, “You’re never too old to play, and Tamagotchi helps us embrace that.” Thanks Tamagotchi, although I may be too old to play.
I’m sure you remember those four months in the late 1990s when every kid walked around with a digital pet (and another two months later when only losers walked), but the younger generation may be new to the weird pleasure of taking care of some pixels. The new wave of Tamagotchi dubbed Tamagotchi Uni includes “tamaverse”, a kind of online thing where you can interact with other Tamagotchi users in some way and maybe play little games and shit.
Tamagotchis are both very cool and fun and very depressing at the same time, which I can’t explain. Like this week’s viral video.
Viral Video of the Week: Post-College Life at 28 with a Regular Job
Usually videos go viral because they have something outrageous or new in them, but this week the internet is obsessed with videos that stand out for being mundane. TikToker @hubslife Post-college life as a 28-year-old with a regular job depicts an unremarkable everyday life – going to work, going to the gym, petting a dog, eating some kind of dinner – no comment, but it seems to have hit people hard . .
The comments are all over the place, some declaring it a “dystopian nightmare” and others saying “many will never achieve this level of peace in their lives”. This is a video that acts like a mirror. Whether it makes you feel peace or fear depends on who you are. “From someone who’s been in survival mode all their lives, your routine is so serene and safe for me,” Danina commented on TikToker, where Beni’s reaction was “that would be my nightmare.”
However, there is a twist in this story. The video seems to be sponsored by Daya Flatbread, the depressing or comforting basis of this dude’s dinner. It really depends on your point of view whether TikToker will make some collaboration money to showcase some overcooked food, the whole thing is more dystopian or more serene.