A Guide to Children’s Culture for Out-of-Touch Adults: What Is a “treatler”?
This week, young people are calling each other “healers”, vowing to show up on the beach with a full bikini bush and play an online game that has been heavily censored in China. Read on to uncover all of this, as well as why goats love to jump into fire.
Who (or what) is “Tritler?”
“Tritler” and “Treatlerit” are online insults that combine the words “treat” and “Hitler.” They are referring to the rights of some users of services like Doordash or Uber Eats, particularly people who seem to view luxury delivery services as a human right and don’t take into account the hardships of the people doing the work that makes “private taxis for” burritos ” Maybe.
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The term “tratlerit” was coined by user X @posting_forever and has become online shorthand for the type of person who files an angry report when an Instacart driver buys the wrong brand of ice cream. The argument goes deeper when you consider that many people with disabilities say they rely on these services. But is this a good argument? Some say: “No.”
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Pizza delivery is nothing new, but the widespread use of services like DoorDash and Grubhub have created a new class of gig workers, but we don’t usually think about the corresponding “upper class” of people rich enough to pay someone else. go grocery shopping for them. Interestingly, the new upper class has exactly the same problems with this as their old school counterparts. Balancing “I pay a lot for this so I expect good service” and “the people I pay to do my menial jobs deserve respect too” has never been easy, and thanks to capitalism young people are trying to make a living it makes sense if you weren’t born in a rich family.
Why is everyone talking about the “full bush in a bikini”?
TikTok user sujindah signaled the possible future of seaside grooming habits this week by posting a video of herself repeating the phrase “full bush in a bikini”:
The video has been viewed more than 13 million times in the past three days, with commenters promising to go “fully feral werewolves” this summer.
Sujinda credits a bikini review on Etsy “where the girl had a full bush” for “radicalizing” her on the topic. “That’s how it should be!” she says.
I’m sure many of you reading this are old enough to remember when every bikini had a full bush, so there’s nothing new under the sun, but it’s encouraging to see young women look at society’s expectations of beauty and say, “I’m not I’m going to do it and you can’t force me.”
What happened to Jerkmate ratings?
While young women promise not to clear bushes before traveling to Kauai, young men make jokes about jerking, specifically “Jerkmate rating” or “competitive bullying.”
Gooning, as I defined it in my guide to Gen Z and Gen Alpha slang , refers to prolonged masturbation without orgasm. Jerkmate is an adult website that places users in public chat rooms while watching live streams, so the joke about the “Jerkmate rating” is that there is a competitive element to the bullying. Meme creators post sarcastic boasts about their Jerkmate rank or imagine the rules of competitive beating . Jerkmate doesn’t actually offer ranked “matches”, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re working on that at the moment.
Everyone plays Marvel Rivals , but no one can mention Winnie the Pooh.
Marvel Rivals is a must-play online game. The Marvel team-based PVP shooter, which launched just over a month ago, is the best-selling game on Steam (it’s free to download, so I guess it’s more like “most downloaded”) and the third most popular game. on the streaming service. It allows gamers to play as Marvel characters. The list includes well-known heroes such as Iron Man and the Hulk, as well as lesser-known Marvel creations such as Squirrel Girl and Peni Parker.
Marvel Rivals is sparking international controversy and highlighting China’s growing control over discourse in gaming and pop culture in general. Marvel Rivals was developed by Chinese company NetEase Games, and the game censors politically offensive speech related to China in its chat. Captain America can’t type “Free Hong Kong” into the Marvel Rivals chat window, and Groot can’t reply “Remember the Tiananmen Square Massacre!” Players cannot reference Winnie the Pooh (due to memes pointing out the characters’ resemblance to Chinese leader Xi Jinping) and cannot type “Taiwan is a country.” But you can write: “911 was an inside job.”
Viral videos of the week: Goat jumps into fire and Disney gingerbread horror
There are two viral videos this week because they are short. The first was posted by Instagram user xiaoling5350 and depicts suicidal goats jumping into a fireplace in someone’s living room. Even after being pulled out of the flames, the goats return to hell as if intent on committing suicide.
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Aside from the jokes about making your own curry, many viewers of this video (myself included) are wondering why the goat repeatedly jumped into the fire. Goats and fire have a deep connection. Goats are known to happily eat anything, so they can be used to prevent forest fires by allowing them to devour underbrush. But they seem to love flames: there are numerous videos of goats playing with fire , and reports of animals creepily staring at fires . It’s common to explain on the Internet that goats burn themselves to kill parasites in their fur or throat, but I don’t believe that. How often have wild goats been close enough to a fire for them to develop this behavior, and wouldn’t if they were attracted to the fire end up killing more goats than it helped? So I’d like to offer a second explanation: goats are truly stupid and don’t know any better.
The second viral video doesn’t raise questions about animal behavior; it’s just funny. TheMainStreetDuo are Disney fanatics who posted a hilariously simple video of the interaction during the Disneyland parade. As the giant gingerbread men walk by, one half of the Main Street duo takes a huge bite of the cookie, leaving them horrified. Not much, but funny enough that it has been viewed over a hundred million times.